Contracting
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The Senate Armed Services Committee continues pushing for acquisition reform in the 2017 defense authoritarian bill.
May 17, 2016 -
Kareem El-Alaily, managing director at Censeo Consulting, and Richard Beutel, principal at Cyrrus Analytics, make the case for adding new metrics to the FITARA scorecard.
May 17, 2016 -
The General Services Administration picked 109 vendors for the $11.5 billion unrestricted and small business Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTs) contracts.
May 17, 2016 -
BirchGrove Consulting president Ray Bjorklund joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the President's proposed 2017 budget and what it means for contract addressable spending. May 17, 2016
May 16, 2016 -
The Senate version of the defense authorization bill has a much more modest approach to enrollment fees for TRICARE users.
May 16, 2016 -
Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron to discuss category management initiatives coming out of the Office of Management and Budget and the keys to reorganizing procurement operations across GSA. May 10, 2016
May 16, 2016 -
Category management was supposed to streamline how the government buys commodities and save money. But it might also be squeezing out small business and, instead, driving prices higher. At least that's what some members of Congress are asking the General Services Administration. Larry Allen , president of Allen Federal Business Partners, shares his perspective on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 16, 2016 -
The continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program is relying on a blanket purchase agreement approach that isn’t as flexible as DHS and GSA officials thought it would be.
May 16, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management terminated its contract with Imperatis on May 9 after the small business alerted the agency it had financial trouble and would be ceasing operations immediately.
May 16, 2016 -
The space agency released its entire source selection document for why it chose SAIC over CACI for a $447.8 million award.
May 16, 2016 -
The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate hosted its first industry day in Silicon Valley and about 200 companies showed up as part of the federal government’s outreach to start-ups.
May 13, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office wants DoD to declare the update of the F-35 a separate acquisition program for transparency and accountability reasons. Michael Sullivan, GAO's Director for Defense Weapons System Acquisitions detailed that rationale on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 13, 2016 -
The Pentagon is taking a lowest price, technically acceptable approach to the $17 billion, multiple-award contract known as Encore 3. Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president of the IT Industry Council, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin contractors say that's the wrong approach.
May 12, 2016 -
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is revamping the Defense Innovation Unit Experiment before it even turns a year old.
May 11, 2016 -
Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, said Tuesday that he’s comfortable with a package of procurement reforms the House Armed Services Committee passed two weeks ago, largely because the final bill took a step back from strict language that would have required DoD to use modular open architectures on all of its major weapons systems.
May 11, 2016