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Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group and chair of the Coaliton for Government Procurement, discusses category management, GSA's Schedules Transformation Initiative, and the current state of commercial item contracting. February 9, 2016
Contractors with expiring General Services Administration multiple award schedule contracts have a new goodie. A new clause gives an afterlife to that contract — a really long afterlife. That's just one of the tidbits you should know about from the weekly blog of Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more details.
DoD released a proposed rule that will require companies to give the Pentagon more information about IR&D projects.
The General Services Administration withdrew an RFQ for data analytics after working on it for more than 18 months.
DoD is asking stakeholders for their input on a rule that would raise the barrier for independent research and development funds.
It's winter. That means in Washington, anything might happen, including the shuttering of federal office buildings. If you're a contractor, that doesn't mean the work stops. What should you do? Here's something not to do, and that's try and get advice from just anyone you can reach. Larry Allen, principal of Allen Federal Business Partners, talks about this an other matter in his blog this week. He also discussed the topic on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Reverse auctions could do more than get the federal government the best price. It turns out they can also bring independent software developers who have never contracted with the government before.
Richard D. Lieberman, a consultant and retired attorney, advises industry to be sure the right person is modifying or changing a contract before moving forward with the request.
Banged-up cars and seizing ship engines. A slice of federal programs isn't going as planned.
There's failure and then there's failure. Big and small. One way to prevent the big ones is to develop tolerance for the small ones along the way. That's in part the idea behind a Pentagon drive to get more commercial innovation into its so-called third offset strategy. For what this means to contractors, Larry Allen, principal at Allen Federal Business Partners spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the topic.
For many agencies, the move to cloud computing services is predicated by policy, legal and contracting decisions made by more than just the chief information officer.
Lohfeld Consulting CEO Bob Lohfeld and Blomberg Government Senior Data Analyst Paul Murphy join host Mark Amtower to discuss some of the challenges contractors are facing in 2016. February 1, 2016
Consolidation and new company formation has become a steady drumbeat in the federal market. In the latest megadeal, Leidos is taking on the Information Systems and Global Solutions division from Lockheed. What does it mean for the market and for federal customers? For analysis, Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Arun Sankaran, managing director of market research company Govini.
OFPP Administrator Anne Rung plans to update a 2011 guidance requiring agencies to submit business cases before moving forward with a multiple award contract.