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A coalition of medium-sized companies offers several recommendations to the Alliant 3 acquisition strategy, including expanding the number of awardees and changing the past performance requirements.
NITAAC says it would extend the CIO-SP3 governmentwide acquisition contract another six months, through April 2024 after it decided to take corrective action on the follow-on contract.
In today's Federal Newscast: Virginia Sens. Warner and Kaine send a detailed letter to the Defense Department decrying the lack of reforms to privatized military housing. GSA is turning up its protections to better mitigate supply chain risks. And Customs and Border Protection lays out its agency-wide IT plans.
The federal Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) has aided neophyte companies in a variety of domains. The EPA is among the agencies with an active SBIR program. But there's a nagging problem, according to the EPA's office of inspector general: conflicts of interest in SBIR contracts.
DoD made the highly unexpected decision to cancel the $374 million replacement for its aging Defense Travel System in May. The explanation it's given to lawmakers is very different from what it's told the media and public, and has sparked a new congressional investigation.
Usually, contractors protest to the government over matters related to money. But there's a long history of non-monetary damage, usually related to interpretation of a contract.
This week on Off the Shelf, Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging discussion of the hottest topics in procurement.
Jason Miller, executive editor of Federal News Network, joins Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging discussion of the key procurement trends over the first half of 2023.
Raj Sharma, the founder and CEO of the Public Spend Forum, said agencies are more willing to provide Phase 2 SBIR funding to promising technologies over the last four years.
Time-wise, there's not much left of the federal fiscal year. Less then three months now. Money-wise it's a different story. Agencies will spend around $217 billion between now and September 30, more than half by the Defense Department.
Bloomberg Government estimates agencies to have more than $200 billion to spend on acquisition over the final three months of fiscal 2023.
Emily Murphy, the former administrator of the General Services Administration and now a senior fellow with the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University, makes the case for why cost and pricing data at the main contract level is useless and burdensome.
Contractors and investor offer suggestions for how to improve DoD acquisition but getting ideas implemented may not be easy.
As a best practice, commercial firms leverage their buying power when acquiring supplies and services to support business operations.