Contracting
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Trump's 2017 supplemental budget goes over the legal budget caps.
March 16, 2017 -
Few types of deals raise the hackles of services contractors more than lowest-price, technically acceptable. Some recent protest decisions should should make them feel a little better about LPTA. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of the law firm Petrillo and Powell tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin they can and have won with higher prices when they justify higher costs.
March 16, 2017 -
What happens when a government contractor employee calls out to the government suspected wrongdoing by his or her company? That's the topic of an ongoing pilot program launched in 2013. Marie Mak, director of acquisition and sourcing management at the Government Accountability Office, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how that program is working out.
March 14, 2017 -
The Defense innovation unit on the West Coast hasn't shut it doors with the change in administration. But there's a danger in all of this innovation when it comes to procurement and treatment. Dave Wennergren, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, shares his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 13, 2017 -
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has been sitting on bids from three vendors for a $40 million systems integration contract for more than nine months without any real updates, and now three lawmakers are asking why.
March 13, 2017 -
The federal inspectors general community has an opportunity, as the federal hiring freeze and other resources continue to tighten, to share administrative and mission areas services.
March 13, 2017 -
The General Services Administration and the Homeland Security Department released the first of what’s expected to be two requests for information seeking insights into how to make the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program more reactive to the burgeoning cyber market.
March 13, 2017 -
Hillary Hartley, the deputy executive director and creative director of GSA’s 18F organization, is leaving in early April, while former 18F co-founder Aaron Snow has found a new home.
March 13, 2017 -
Tim Hurlebaus, president of CGI Federal, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss key trends shaping the federal IT and services marketplace. March 14, 2017
March 12, 2017 -
This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower interviews small business expert Becky Sheetz on applying the principles of Sun Tzu from her book: "The Art of War for Small Business." March 13, 2017
March 12, 2017 -
The General Services Administration wants Congress to secure funding for the billion-dollar project before it takes any more steps toward a new FBI headquarters.
March 10, 2017 -
The six-year closure of Schedule 75 is impacting long-standing GSA industry partners whose contracts are expiring with no opportunity to submit a new offer to maintain contract coverage.
March 10, 2017 -
The General Services Administration is loaning out Norman Dong, commissioner of the Public Buildings Service (PBS), to the private sector. Dong's departure leaves a vacancy in GSA's top leadership, as the agency works to plan a new FBI headquarters and answer questions regarding conflicts of interest around the Trump International Hotel.
March 09, 2017 -
NASA has just awarded $17 million in contracts to eight companies that it thinks are on the verge of coming up with game-changing technologies for the future of commercial space flight. Stephen Jurczyk, the associate administrator for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the agency targeted the contracts to firms with what it calls “tipping point” technologies — those that need a small funding boost to bring their systems to market.
March 08, 2017 -
This week on Off the Shelf, host Roger Waldron talks with Tom Sisti, senior director and chief legislative counsel for SAP, about the current state of procurement in the federal government. March 7, 2017
March 07, 2017