Contracting
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Through a system once known as contract court and now called Services Requirements Review Boards (SRRBs), the Defense Department is looking to cut 10 percent of its spending on contracted services within DoD's "fourth estate" this year.
February 22, 2016 -
GSA issued a request for quotes under the Alliant Small Business governmentwide acquisition contract to modernize three major acquisition data systems, including FedBizOpps.gov.
February 22, 2016 -
Matt Goodrich, the FedRAMP program office director, said the cloud cybersecurity effort is gaining interest, and JAB is looking to take advantage of that attention through an improved authorization process.
February 19, 2016 -
Proposal expert Betsy Blakney joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the key elements of thought leadership and their role in winning business with the federal government. February 22, 2016
February 18, 2016 -
Brian Friel, principal at One Nation Analytics LLC, discusses Alliant 2, Encore 3, category management and more when he joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf. February 16, 2016
February 18, 2016 -
Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group and chair of the Coaliton for Government Procurement, discusses category management, GSA's Schedules Transformation Initiative, and the current state of commercial item contracting. February 9, 2016
February 18, 2016 -
The Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Directorate is requiring that all researchers use its Software Assurance Marketplace to test an application before submitting it to the department. DHS S&T is also piloting a new contracting model for its work with Silicon Valley startups.
February 17, 2016 -
Contractors with expiring General Services Administration multiple award schedule contracts have a new goodie. A new clause gives an afterlife to that contract — a really long afterlife. That's just one of the tidbits you should know about from the weekly blog of Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more details.
February 17, 2016 -
Like the line in the famous Joni Mitchell song, Stan Soloway, former Pentagon procurement chief, has seen life from both sides now, or at least federal acquisition. Soloway recently stepped down after 15 years as CEO of the Professional Services Council, a trade group representing hundreds of defense contractors. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss why the Defense Department and everyone connected to it is wondering what happens next.
February 17, 2016 -
Defense companies are expected to increase hiring for the first time in five years, but that could create problems for the Defense Department's recruiting initiatives.
February 16, 2016 -
While you can make some comparisons, The F-35-as-Edsel is an imperfect analogy. And not a particularly useful one.
February 16, 2016 -
The Army uses Other Transaction Authority to buy cyber prototypes and hopes to use IT Box to deploy them broadly.
February 15, 2016 -
DoD released a proposed rule that will require companies to give the Pentagon more information about IR&D projects.
February 15, 2016 -
The General Services Administration withdrew an RFQ for data analytics after working on it for more than 18 months.
February 15, 2016 -
Charlie Armstrong called it a career after spending the last seven-plus years as the assistant commissioner for the Office of Information and Technology and CIO for CBP.
February 15, 2016