Contracts/Awards
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A month after being rebuked by the Government Accountability Office for the way it planned to pick vendors in a ten year, $17.5 billion IT services contract, the Defense Information Systems Agency issued a revised request for proposals Wednesday, giving vendors a little more than three weeks to submit new bid packages.
September 08, 2016 -
A new report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's majority members links the 2014 and 2015 OPM breaches as coordinated attacks, and blames the agency's failure to heed warnings about its cybersecurity for the theft of PII of millions of federal employees and their families.
September 07, 2016 -
GAO explicitly rejected the claim that the agency shouldn't have used LPTA, saying the decision was justified because ENCORE is “a mature program with a substantial commercial application.”
September 06, 2016 -
Industry sources say a $67.6 million award contract to Iron Vine Security is concerning because the agency may have used a low-cost, technically acceptable approach.
September 06, 2016 -
The Army is sticking to its word on a late 2016 request for proposals on unified capabilities.
September 02, 2016 -
The Army is starting is Rapid Capabilities Office in hopes to speed up acquisitions of top priorities.
August 31, 2016 -
The Professional Services Category Management team released for industry comment a new strategic plan to improve how agencies buy and manage everything from management to legal to financial services.
August 31, 2016 -
Greg Giddens, principal executive director and acting chief acquisition Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the VA ‘s acquisition and logistics operations. August 30, 2016
August 29, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office has decided on six of the 14 remaining protests, dismissing five and denying one, for the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) contract.
August 29, 2016 -
Kimberly Hancher, partner at Deep Water Point, and Virtual Marketing LLC President Lou Anne Brossman join host Mark Amtower to discuss the upcoming GAIN 2016 conference in Leesburg Virginia. August 29, 2016
August 28, 2016 -
The Obama administration is backing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order for evening the playing field among government contractors, but some federal contracting experts say the policy will do more harm than good.
August 26, 2016 -
The Obama Administration has issued long-awaited final rules designed to keep companies who routinely violate labor laws from getting federal contracts. Vendors will have to report any violations of 14 different labor laws, and eventually state laws too, directly to the Labor Department. Eric Crusius, attorney at Miles & Stockbridge, joins Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about the rules.
August 25, 2016 -
The Defense Department continues to be concerned about counterfeit parts making their way into weapons systems and virtually everything else it buys. The worries are that fake parts could cause mission critical systems to fail unexpectedly.
August 25, 2016 -
After a six year decline in spending, budgets have begun to bounce back in 2016, and contract spending is expected to follow that upturn shortly after as the trend continues into 2017.
August 24, 2016 -
Final guidance for the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order includes a phase-in schedule for contractors, as well as an opportunity for pre-assessment from the Labor Department.
August 23, 2016