Contracting
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A month after being rebuked by the Government Accountability Office for the way it planned to pick vendors in a ten year, $17.5 billion IT services contract, the Defense Information Systems Agency issued a revised request for proposals Wednesday, giving vendors a little more than three weeks to submit new bid packages.
September 08, 2016 -
DoD would focus on sustainment costs if is has a chance to release another version of Better Buying Power.
September 07, 2016 -
A new report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's majority members links the 2014 and 2015 OPM breaches as coordinated attacks, and blames the agency's failure to heed warnings about its cybersecurity for the theft of PII of millions of federal employees and their families.
September 07, 2016 -
The Defense Department appointed 18 members to yet another advisory committee to study the acquisition system. But this one has a much more specific task than the blue ribbon panels that have come in the decades before it.
September 06, 2016 -
GAO explicitly rejected the claim that the agency shouldn't have used LPTA, saying the decision was justified because ENCORE is “a mature program with a substantial commercial application.”
September 06, 2016 -
Industry sources say a $67.6 million award contract to Iron Vine Security is concerning because the agency may have used a low-cost, technically acceptable approach.
September 06, 2016 -
The Army is sticking to its word on a late 2016 request for proposals on unified capabilities.
September 02, 2016 -
The Defense Department will delay the rollout of its forthcoming $4.6 billion electronic health record because of newly-discovered technical problems, officials said Thursday.
September 01, 2016 -
The Army is starting is Rapid Capabilities Office in hopes to speed up acquisitions of top priorities.
August 31, 2016 -
The Professional Services Category Management team released for industry comment a new strategic plan to improve how agencies buy and manage everything from management to legal to financial services.
August 31, 2016 -
Strategic sourcing is the government's strategy for trying to buy commodities as a single entity. Industry, and especially small business and services contractors, have been wary of the initiative. Now the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council has issued a new rule for contracting officers and that's also got industry concerned. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel of the Professional Services Council, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what's going on.
August 31, 2016 -
A former DoD official says the 2017 defense authorization bill is as good as vetoed, but will it make it into law?
August 30, 2016 -
Greg Giddens, principal executive director and acting chief acquisition Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Construction, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the VA ‘s acquisition and logistics operations. August 30, 2016
August 29, 2016 -
Federal procurement experts say Latvian Connection is alleging problems with how agencies are interpreting and implementing the Small Business Act and other policies and therefore should seek relief from Congress or the FAR Council and not through protests.
August 29, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office has decided on six of the 14 remaining protests, dismissing five and denying one, for the Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS) contract.
August 29, 2016