Contracts/Awards
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Contractors have long urged agencies to expand the debriefings they give to losing bidders after making an award. In one recent case, an enhanced debriefing lead to a turnover in the award. The new award turned out to be protest proof. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked about the project, worth tens of millions of dollars, with Joe Petrillo, Smith Pachter McWhorter procurement attorney.
September 29, 2022 -
Baker Tilly’s Jeff Clayton, Leo Alvarez, and Julia Smith host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf, for a wide-ranging discussion of compliance, procurement, and market trends impacting companies engaged in the federal marketplace.
September 28, 2022 -
Stephanie Halcrow, president of the Halcrow Group and senior fellow at George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting and Moshe Schwartz, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss their report: "The Power of Many: Leveraging Consortia to Promote Innovation, Expand the Defense Industrial Base, and Accelerate Acquisition."
September 28, 2022 -
GSA and DoD updated policies to require make it a little easier for vendors to raises prices under current contracts.
September 15, 2022 -
A recent attempt at a blanket purchase agreement landed the General Services Administration into a protest with Office Depot.
September 08, 2022 -
Peter Lierni of Solutioneering joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the high turnover in business development and capture personnel and other issues impacting the procurement/RFP process.
September 07, 2022 -
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at the General Services Administration, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the acquisition workforce, transactional data reporting, and sustainability in procurement.
September 05, 2022 -
USDA and NOAA are among the agencies that are taking advantage of the continuity of service agreements, giving them an extra year to complete their transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
September 02, 2022 -
Stephanie Alexander, partner and co-founder of GovMates and founder/CEO of BOOST, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss some caveats for small businesses entering government contracting and innovation in the GovCon market.
August 31, 2022 -
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs need to be reauthorized by Sept. 30 or federal research and development efforts will stall.
August 30, 2022 -
Influence Builder Founder and CEO Danielle Clark joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide-ranging discussion on attraction marketing.
August 25, 2022 -
Deborah Haywood, of McKesson Medical Surgical, joined this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the imperative of medical supply chain resilience and the role of the national strategic stockpile.
August 22, 2022 -
Intellectual property attorney Linda Hutchison joined host Mark Amtower of this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss how to protect your IP and how to avoid infringing on someone else's.
August 22, 2022 -
For many years the Department of Veterans Affairs has worked to make it easier for veterans to access VA services. Now the department is two months into an effort to make it easier for vendors — and what the department calls "innovators" — to put their services and capabilities before VA program and contract people. It's a website called Pathfinder.
August 11, 2022 -
For the U.S. Army and one of its software contractors, the conflict in Afghanistan is still going on. An unresolved dispute over licensing of language translation software has entered a new phase, eight years after the company first claimed breach of contract.
August 10, 2022