Contracting
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New preliminary data from Deltek’s GovWin shows agencies spent only $120 million on cloud computing in 2016 despite it being six years since OMB’s cloud-first policy.
October 17, 2016 -
Over the objections of contractors in a variety of industries, the White House is pushing ahead with new rules. One requires a week of sick leave for every employee. Attorney Ken Rosenberg, a partner at Fox Rothschild, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what's next.
October 14, 2016 -
The project, known as the Army Private Cloud Enterprise, represents the first time the Army has contracted with a private company to run a large-scale data center inside the gates of a military installation.
October 14, 2016 -
A legitimate complaint against government wrongdoing, or merely a nuisance? In this case, the Government Accountability Office says it was clearly the latter. GAO barred a company called Latvian Connection from filing bid protests. That was after the company filed 150 of them in the same year. Federal contracting specialist Steve Koprince, managing partner of Koprince Law, about the highly unusual case on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 13, 2016 -
The crucial partnership on military basics between the Defense Department and Congress is badly frayed, and the military will be the worse for it.
October 13, 2016 -
The inevitable has come to pass: a federal contracting association has legally challenged the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces final rule.
October 13, 2016 -
The Defense Department will begin the much-anticipated rollout of its new commercially derived electronic health records system in February, according to a new deployment schedule officials announced on Tuesday.
October 12, 2016 -
Industry can no longer protest civilian agency task and delivery orders worth more than $10 million to the GAO after the Senate didn’t pass a bill that would’ve extended the authority permanently.
October 11, 2016 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued a draft circular to institutionalize category management, but some experts question whether the initiative needs more time before putting into policy.
October 11, 2016 -
Booz Allen Hamilton Vice President Thad Allen joins Off the Shelf to discuss the latest developments in the use and protection of Global Positions Systems. October 11, 2016
October 10, 2016 -
Software giant Oracle makes a tough decision to opt out of GSA IT schedule.
October 10, 2016 -
Aaron Snow, the executive director of 18F and deputy commissioner of GSA’s Technology Transformation Service, will step down on Oct. 13 and serve as an advisor to the incoming commissioner of the new service.
October 07, 2016 -
The JRSS effort will eventually consolidate about 125 separate points of Army cyber defense into 25 shared, regional centers to protect both classified and unclassified networks.
October 06, 2016 -
Like Old Faithful, the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council erupts periodically, showers contracting officers and contractors with new rules, updates to old ones and even subtle word changes. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of the law firm Petrillo & Powell shares the latest bucketful on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 06, 2016 -
The Defense Department's newest advisory board has a handful of all-stars in it, but is it up for the challenge?
October 05, 2016