Acquisition
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Sen. Mikulski and Rep. Sarbanes introduce legislation to change the way agencies outsource jobs and determine what are inherently governmental functions.
May 13, 2011 -
Republican House lawmakers are frustrated and concerned over the draft Executive Order requiring contractors to make campaign contributions public. OFPP\'s Dan Gordon declines to answer specific questions about the proposal, but said transparency is key to ensuring trust in the procurement system.
May 13, 2011 -
Mobile technology is changing how the federal government works. Federal News Radio spoke with CRGT CEO Tom Ferrando, for a pulse check on technology and contracting.
May 12, 2011 -
After GAO upholds one of the protests, the agency decides not to move forward with the contract to upgrade back-office systems.
May 12, 2011 -
Seventy percent of the Defense Information System Agency\'s workers are making the move to Ft. Meade, Md. DISA, however, is keeping the pipeline of potential new hires stocked and taking steps to improve the hiring process. Vendors also have not seen a large exit of employees, but could later this fall.
May 12, 2011 -
Lockheed has officially opened a new cyber lab devoted to cyber security research, and will work closely with CMU faculty.
May 11, 2011 -
Al Burman, president of Jefferson Solutions and Chair of the Procurement Round Table, joins host Roger Waldron to talk about the work his group is doing. May 10, 2011
May 10, 2011 -
NavigationArts\' Mobile Practice Director Doug Brashear joins host John Gilroy to talk about how the government should handle mobile communication. May 10, 2011(Encore presentation September 6, 2011)
May 10, 2011 -
The Fed Cloud Blog told you it was coming. Now, the General Services Administration has officially released its request for quotation for e-mail, office automation and electronic records management cloud services. Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller reports the cloud contract has a ceiling of $2.5 billion over five years. The important dates to remember? Vendors [...]
May 10, 2011 -
Agencies have about five months to award a year\'s worth of contracts. And that\'s putting the squeeze on contracting officers and contractors alike. We talk about that with Aronson LLC\'s Hope Lane.
May 10, 2011 -
The IRS issues rules to hold back part of contractor payments, then holds back the rule. We talk about the impact with Steve Charles with the immixGroup.
May 10, 2011 -
The blanket purchase agreement could be worth $2.5 billion over five years. GSA wants vendors to bid on email-as-a-service, office automation and records management.
May 10, 2011 -
The General Services Administration has hired Kathy Conrad to be its new principal deputy associate administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies.
May 09, 2011 -
Researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies find trends toward more competition in Defense Department contracting between 1999 and 2010. The Washington think tank also found DoD also had increased the use of fixed price contracting.
May 09, 2011 -
Skip Trahern is President of Fedstore, and he joined us with analysis on the recent changes to working with the government.
May 06, 2011