Contracting
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Earlier this month, GSA issued two detailed requests for information, both to the companies who run commercial e-commerce platforms and to the vendors who might use them to sell their goods to the government.
June 25, 2018 -
Angela Nordstrom, vice president of federal for NIC, said agencies have a rare opportunity to modernize their systems using a transaction-based approach.
June 25, 2018 -
GSA is reducing the three-month old requirement for vendors to send by mail notarized letters to update current registrations or apply for a new one.
June 25, 2018 -
Jonathan Aronie, a partner with Shepperd Mullin, said agency suspension and debarment officials are asking vendors more questions when non-acquisition issues arise.
June 25, 2018 -
Roger Waldron, president of The Coalition for Government Procurement, reviews GSA and OMB's initial Phase II Public Meeting.
June 22, 2018 -
The Senate Appropriations Committee cleared a bill to give federal civilian employees a 1.9 percent pay raise in 2019.
June 22, 2018 -
Federal real estate is not immune from the White House's new comprehensive governmentwide reorganization plan. The proposals aim to speed up sales process for offloading surplus property and create a permanent building project fund.
June 21, 2018 -
Anne Rung, the former administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and now is director of Amazon business government, said the government can move to an existing e-commerce portal with little or no cost.
June 21, 2018 -
The Defense Department wants the contracting community to embrace a new policy that could upend the annual procurement cycle for major weapons systems.
June 20, 2018 -
On this week's episode of Women of Washington, Gigi Schumm welcomed Mischel Kwon of MKACyber, who created her company as a consulting firm to help "improve security operations for enterprises and U.S. federal government agencies."
June 20, 2018 -
At this month's ATARC Cloud & Data Center Summit in Washington, D.C., David Nelson of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Todd Simpson gave their outlooks on cloud migration.
June 19, 2018 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, details how GSA’s customers are choosing acquisition vehicles with lower fees.
June 19, 2018 -
The president and CEO of the Professional Services Council said Congress will need to pass additional legislation to appropriate funding.
June 18, 2018 -
A vendor received no help from the district court after it dismissed the case of whether GAO must comply with the Administrative Procedures Act.
June 18, 2018 -
In working the aftermath of natural disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency relies on contractors, but the report said the agency does not always use best practices in hiring its contractors.
June 15, 2018