Contracting
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A draft memo released for public comment March 29 would require GSA to run a governmentwide contract for mobile devices and services, and mandate agencies use that new vehicle by August 2018.
March 30, 2016 -
Third-party assessment organizations will play a larger role in getting cloud service providers ready for final certification by the Joint Authorization Board under an updated approach announced by the FedRAMP program on March 28.
March 28, 2016 -
Vendors are submitting bids on the next set of tools under phase 2 of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program while DHS is preparing for phase 3.
March 28, 2016 -
Anne Rung, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said at the recent Acquisition Excellence conference that she’s working with the Chief Acquisition Officer’s Council to share some best practices to improve how agencies provide debriefings to unsuccessful vendors.
March 28, 2016 -
Michael Keating, senior editor of American City and County, joins host Mark Amtower to talk about the ten the retirement tsunami, cooperative purchasing best practices and other big stories in 2015. March 28, 2016
March 27, 2016 -
The Army doesn't think it will be able to adopt Windows 10 by the DoD's deadline.
March 24, 2016 -
It's an old rule: A small business can't front for a large business just to get a set-aside contract. But that doesn't keep people from trying. One recent case went two rounds of protest only to prove large and small companies can't exchange a few people and get away with it. Federal Drive with Tom Temin discussed this case with procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo.
March 24, 2016 -
Kevin Boshears, director of the Homeland Security Department's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business procurement program, outlines how small business can get involved in contracting with DHS.
March 24, 2016 -
This week's Pentagon Solutions looks at sleep-deprivation among Army soldiers and defective contract at six Navy and Coast Guard shipbuilding programs.
March 23, 2016 -
DoD Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy Claire Grady said two updates on contract types and source selection are nearing release. The hope is to more clearly communicate with industry the wants and needs in government contracts.
March 22, 2016 -
Now that Congress has funded the Coast Guard's largest acquisition budget ever, Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, said the barometer is rising and the storms have abated.
March 22, 2016 -
Contractors can take solace in the fact that more agencies are getting more money next year. Larry Allen of Allen Federal Business Partners joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain how contractors can capitalize on it.
March 21, 2016 -
The Energy Department’s Federal Energy Management Program Office made four awards under its Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies (AFFECT) program to help agencies get over the hump on renewable energy projects.
March 18, 2016 -
One professor argues that part of the problem with outmoded technology is outmoded thinking. Kevin DeSouza, associate dean for research at the College of Public Service at Arizona State University, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on his latest Tech Tank article.
March 18, 2016 -
The Navy and Coast Guard found out that guarantees aren't worth the deck plate they're engraved on when they ended up paying to correct defects that should have been covered. Michelle Mackin, director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Issues at the Government Accountability Office, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about GAO's review of six shipbuilding programs.
March 17, 2016