Contracts/Awards
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The Professional Services Council and IT Alliance for Public Sector say lowest price technically acceptable is the wrong process to use when evaluating ENCORE III bidders.
May 02, 2016 -
Reps. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) and Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), chairman and ranking member of the Small Business Committee respectively, wrote a letter to GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth in early April asking for more details on how GSA is ensuring category management doesn’t impact small businesses.
May 02, 2016 -
A provision tucked into the annual Defense authorization bill would order the DoD to look into how often LPTA is used, and whether DoD is following it's own guidance on when and how to use it.
April 28, 2016 -
Kareem El-Alaily, managing director of Censeo Consulting Group, argues for why there is a growing importance of negotiating better terms and conditions in enterprise software license sourcing.
April 27, 2016 -
The DATA Act will make it easier for the federal government to prepare for the future and help citizens, but before it can do that, agencies need help in meeting the May 2017 implementation deadline.
April 26, 2016 -
Federal spending fell by 2 percent last year, but the rate of decline has slowed and at some agencies, contract spending is on the rise. Those are some of the findings in the latest scorecard from Govini. Matt Hummer, Govini's director of analytics, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on contract spending trends.
April 26, 2016 -
The military services are slowly, but surely adopting a new instruction to better services procurement. Meanwhile, DoD may have found a better way to collaborate with small business.
April 25, 2016 -
The General Services Administration has been asking industry for comments on the price reduction clause. Contractors, you better drop what you're doing and respond. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, has more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 25, 2016 -
The nation’s highest court is hearing arguments over a False Claims Act lawsuit that could have long-term implications on federal contractors.
April 25, 2016 -
Luke McCormack, the DHS chief information officer, and Soraya Correa, the DHS chief procurement officer, are collaborating to move the department into a more agile process for buying and developing technology systems.
April 22, 2016 -
Visible Thread has been working for years on using automated analysis tools to improve the request for proposals writing process. Visible Thread CEO Fergal McGovern tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that federal procurement documents are incomprehensible.
April 22, 2016 -
Roger Waldron, president of The Coalition for Government Procurement, says GSA's Multiple Awards Schedule (MAS) program can provide streamlined government access to the commercial marketplace on behalf of customer agencies.
April 22, 2016 -
In the case of fixed fee contracts, you pay even if the contractor finds a way to get it done cheaper. No use protesting. That's what the Energy Department found out the hard way. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell fills in all the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 21, 2016 -
Senior officials with the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget say the answer of whether or not the May 2017 full roll-out of the DATA Act is more complicated than a simple yes or no.
April 19, 2016 -
The General Services Administration is soliciting industry input on how to buy office supplies differently through the multiple award schedules. Some in industry say GSA is reacting to continued challenges with the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI).
April 19, 2016