Contracting
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What are the opportunites and challenges facing the transition's new procurement leadership team? Find out this week when Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron on Off the Shelf. February 28, 2017
March 06, 2017 -
On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, Federal News Radio's Eric White checked in with Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, for some predictions about the effect of the White House's so-called skinny budget on contracting.
March 06, 2017 -
President Donald Trump and members of Congress have stressed the importance of improving government information technology. The questions is whether their proposed budgets match their enthusiasm. Forrester Research provides some new forecasts for technology spending. For highlights, Federal News Radio's Eric White spoke with Forrester research analyst Andrew Bartels on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 06, 2017 -
The Army put out a request for information (RFI) looking for vendors who could provide services to find, monitor and remove impostor social media accounts.
March 06, 2017 -
Small businesses growing more worried about the impact of category management on their opportunities to compete for contracts. OFPP required each category manager to submit a plan for how they will address those concerns.
March 06, 2017 -
The Defense Department mandated the use of a services acquisition workshop in 2012 for all procurements worth more than $1 billion. The success of the effort is leading other agencies to use it.
March 06, 2017 -
Entrepreneur and angel investor Tien Wong of Lore Systems joins host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion of innovation, federal IT, the upcoming G-Tech forum, and the value of social networking. March 7, 2017
March 05, 2017 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement says its imperative to reform GSA's Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) program.
March 03, 2017 -
The House Small Business Committee says it will be focusing this fiscal year on program oversight, improved management, and reducing duplicative efforts.
March 03, 2017 -
When two competing bids come in for one contract, and the winner is tens of millions of dollars higher then the loser, something's up. That's what happened in the case of an Army communications deal. You can guess the result. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
March 02, 2017 -
Congress is coming in better late than never to try to fund the Defense Department for 2017.
March 01, 2017 -
In part two of a special report: Defense Acquisition at a Crossroads, Federal News Radio examines the challenges the Defense Department will face as it implements numerous Congressional acquisition reforms, many of which it didn't ask for.
March 01, 2017 -
Congress wants more from the Trump's defense budget after hearing about military expansion for months.
February 28, 2017 -
The Pentagon’s internal improvement plan, known as Better Buying Power, coincided with several consecutive years of declines in the rate of cost growth for the Pentagon’s major weapons systems, from more than 9 percent in 2011 to 3.5 percent in 2015, the lowest level since 1985.
February 28, 2017 -
When President Donald Trump issued his executive order freezing federal hiring, it contained a clause against using contractors to make up for it. Often these types of rules are leaky. David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what services contractors are seeing right now.
February 27, 2017