Acquisition
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The Biden administration has proposed a new rule for federal contractors. It wants them to report their greenhouse gas emission levels, financial risks, and what the proposals calls "science-based emissions reduction targets."
November 21, 2022 -
When faced with a crush of protests, other agencies have struggled to get out from underneath them to award large contract vehicles and now NITAAC is facing a similar challenge.
November 17, 2022 -
For the fifth year in a row, the number of bid protests presented for adjudication to the Government Accountability Office has dropped.
November 16, 2022 -
Tim Cook, executive director of the Center for Procurement Advocacy (CPA) and Tom Sisti, vice president, and general counsel of the Coalition for Government Procurement discuss key developments in acquisition policy programs.
November 14, 2022 -
The Air Force tests airplanes before it buys them. Now it's testing software programming tools before buying them.
November 14, 2022 -
Figures from the Government Accountability Office show a 12% drop in the number of contracting protests in fiscal '22 relative to the year before, protests are down 40% Since 2018.
November 08, 2022 -
Exploring the rules for when government contracts are turned in late
November 03, 2022 -
No one particularly likes Defense Department's PPBE process. It’s rigid, inflexible, and very slow. But it's been encoded into the DNA of the Defense bureaucracy for more than 60 years. Over the next year, two separate groups of experts will try to figure out how to fix the system.
November 03, 2022 -
Jason Bakke, a director at Chaedrol, analyzes a recent GAO bid protest decision that could impact federal contractors on GSA schedule task orders.
November 02, 2022 -
Jim Ghiloni, a group manager at FedSIM, said GSA is in the initial stages of development of Research, Innovation and Outcomes (RIO) vehicle to help small businesses in the Small Business Research Innovation (SBIR) program.
November 02, 2022 -
The General Services Administration is surging resources to fix the problems with the Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) transition to the new validation service, but companies and lawmakers remain frustrated.
November 01, 2022 -
The Defense Department is working on new initiatives to reduce the long-term ownership costs of its major platforms. While those systems are expensive up-front, sustainment expenses make up about 70% of the average weapons system’s total lifecycle cost.
November 01, 2022 -
The Army says SBOMs are "going to happen" and is now asking for feedback on how to use them as part of the acquisition process.
October 31, 2022 -
Jason Workmaster, a member at Miller & Chevalier, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a discussion of then current legal and policy issues in government contracting.
October 31, 2022 -
Karla Smith-Jackson, the senior procurement executive and deputy chief acquisition officer at NASA, said the NASA Acquisition Innovation Lab will provide mission and program areas a safe space to test out new acquisition approaches.
October 31, 2022