Contracting
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is laying the groundwork for greater oversight of its major acquisitions, following repeated probes from lawmakers. The VA on Tuesday released a draft request for proposals (RFP) for independent verification…
July 20, 2023 -
A plan to have the intelligence community and the Defense Department share secret cloud services takes both organizations closer to a goal of interoperability.
July 20, 2023 -
Peter Hutt, partner at Covington & Burling LLP, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for an in-depth discussion of the False Claims Act, including the basics of the law and its impact in the government contracts market.
July 18, 2023 -
Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution. PPBE has been the way of the Pentagon since the 1960s. Nobody is thrilled with it, but it persists. The latest set of recommendations for reforming Pentagon acquisition comes in a letter signed by a dozen contractors and venture capital outfits.
July 18, 2023 -
Supply chain interruptions and slowdowns linger as an effect of the pandemic. They make purchasing and acquisition difficult for both the private sector and government. Recently thinkers from IBM Center for the Business of Government, National Academy of Public Administration, and the Chamber of Commerce put their heads together to come up with ways governments can become more resilient on the supply chain front.
July 13, 2023 -
A coalition of medium-sized companies offers several recommendations to the Alliant 3 acquisition strategy, including expanding the number of awardees and changing the past performance requirements.
July 13, 2023 -
NITAAC says it would extend the CIO-SP3 governmentwide acquisition contract another six months, through April 2024 after it decided to take corrective action on the follow-on contract.
July 11, 2023 -
The federal Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) has aided neophyte companies in a variety of domains. The EPA is among the agencies with an active SBIR program. But there's a nagging problem, according to the EPA's office of inspector general: conflicts of interest in SBIR contracts.
July 10, 2023 -
DoD made the highly unexpected decision to cancel the $374 million replacement for its aging Defense Travel System in May. The explanation it's given to lawmakers is very different from what it's told the media and public, and has sparked a new congressional investigation.
July 07, 2023 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging discussion of the hottest topics in procurement.
July 05, 2023 -
Jason Miller, executive editor of Federal News Network, joins Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging discussion of the key procurement trends over the first half of 2023.
July 05, 2023 -
Raj Sharma, the founder and CEO of the Public Spend Forum, said agencies are more willing to provide Phase 2 SBIR funding to promising technologies over the last four years.
July 05, 2023 -
Bloomberg Government estimates agencies to have more than $200 billion to spend on acquisition over the final three months of fiscal 2023.
July 04, 2023 -
Emily Murphy, the former administrator of the General Services Administration and now a senior fellow with the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, makes the case for why cost and pricing data at the main contract level is useless and burdensome.
July 03, 2023 -
Contractors and investor offer suggestions for how to improve DoD acquisition but getting ideas implemented may not be easy.
June 30, 2023