Contracting
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Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, applauds the Trump administration's intent but questions its approach to reigning in contract duplication.
April 21, 2017 -
The Defense Innovation Unit Experimental is still awarding contracts despite months of uncertainty.
April 20, 2017 -
Linda Springer, a senior adviser at OMB, said the Trump administration is borrowing from past administrations and modifying many long-held concepts to reorganize and restructure the government.
April 20, 2017 -
Former deputy undersecretary of Defense Bill Greenwalt will serve as the Professional Services Council's new senior advisor for research and development, the group announced Wednesday.
April 19, 2017 -
Each of the last three administrations has deployed a strategy for IT acquisition. Former Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Angela Styles, chairwoman of the law firm Crowell Moring, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin on what the next challenges might be.
April 19, 2017 -
The Defense Department is starting its preliminary work to cut its acquisition office in half, including assigning distinct responsibilities to each new office.
April 18, 2017 -
Largely under the radar, the Commerce Department has been building a network of public-private partnerships to boost U.S. manufacturing. It's working under a law from 2014 known as the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act. The Government Accountability Office found that Commerce needs to do more to encompass participation by other federal agencies who contribute people and money. John Neumann, GAO's director of natural resources and environment issues, shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 18, 2017 -
Does anyone need reminding of the thoroughly international content of PCs, smartphones, network switching equipment? And pencils?
April 18, 2017 -
President Donald Trump's new executive order on April 18 will mandate agencies follow buy-American acquisition rules and close loopholes that allow for waivers and exemptions.
April 18, 2017 -
The Defense Contract Audit Agency is beset by backlogs and other problems and industry has ideas that might help.
April 17, 2017 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s ambitious plan to reorganize and restructure the government is asking agencies to consider ideas such as shared services, insourcing and outsourcing and all-but-mandating the use of existing multiple-award contracts. These concepts have real potential to change and transform agencies and their mission areas.
April 17, 2017 -
The Trump administration’s new Office of American Innovation wants to bring in private-sector experts to improve federal agency performance. It should heed the lessons of an Obama administration initiative that tried to do the same thing.
April 17, 2017 -
Kevin Youel Page, the deputy commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said schedule holders participating in the Transactional Data Reporting program will not have to report Commercial Services Practices or Price Reduction Clause information.
April 17, 2017 -
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants to work with "non-traditional partners" as it navigates the future of satellite images and big data.
April 17, 2017 -
Hinge Marketing's Lee Frederiksen joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the new Hinge study: "2017 Government Services Research: Marketing & Growth Insights". April 17, 2017
April 16, 2017