Contracting
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Shanna Webbers, the chief procurement officer, and Harrison Smith, the deputy chief procurement officer, are creating stronger partnerships internally and externally.
July 23, 2018 -
David Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s Intelligence, Information and Services business, said the acceptance of dev/ops is causing vendors to rethink how they meet agency demands.
July 20, 2018 -
GSA is pushing professional services contracting toward a performance-based acquisition, greater use of the professional services schedule, and more use of existing contracts rather than going to the open market.
July 20, 2018 -
The Professional Services Council and Grant Thornton’s biennial survey of federal acquisition workers found budget uncertainty and oversight requirements temper their optimism.
July 19, 2018 -
With new OTA for information warfare, the Navy hopes to quickly push its cyber demands to industry, but also get answers to questions it hadn't thought to ask.
July 19, 2018 -
An internal poll of FBI employees has revealed a striking drop in confidence in the vision of FBI Director Christopher Wray and the bureau's senior leadership.
July 18, 2018 -
Angela Styles, partner at Bracewell LLP, Jonathan Aronie, partner at Sheppard Mullin LLP, and Jon Etherton, president of Etherton & Associates, Inc., join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the GSA's Section 846 Implementation Plan. July 17, 2018
July 17, 2018 -
The Defense Department spent nearly $21 billion on OTAs in the past three years, but who is bringing home the bacon?
July 17, 2018 -
If any of the Trump administration's plans for reorganizing actually come through, they could have a big impact on contracts held by merged agencies or functions.
July 16, 2018 -
GSA and DHS award a $668 million contract under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program that comes under protest.
July 16, 2018 -
What is currently driving the mergers and acquisitions activity in the government contracting market? Find out when Washington Technology Editor Nick Wakeman joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center. July 16, 2018
July 12, 2018 -
The Affordable Care Act set up complicated relationships between health insurance providers and the Health and Human Services Department.
July 12, 2018 -
The Defense Innovation Board, tasked by Congress with finding ways to lower DoD's software acquisition costs and speed projects up, says the department needs to begin by asking different questions of its development teams.
July 12, 2018 -
The Defense Department's chief information officer says cloud adoption is too important to mess up.
July 11, 2018 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency used an Other Transaction Agreement to perform the work, so its scope is unclear. And at least for now, so is the winning firm's identity.
July 10, 2018