The Veterans Affairs Department’s Vets First program is taking center stage before the nine justices over whether it applies to the general supply schedule programs.
The Office of Personnel Management issued a solicitation for a workforce analysis of Federal Investigative Services and those offices that support it.
Roger Waldron looks at the impact of OFPP Administrator Anne Rung’s memorandum for all Chief Acquisition Officers and Senior Procurement Executives on transforming federal procurement.
Organization conflict of interest. Non-disclosure of facts. Tampering with bids. This procurement had it all. It was only a $5 million deal for the Justice Department. But sometimes just about everything goes wrong. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on the bizarre case of the contract where the Government Accountability Office threw up its hands and said, start over.
Play nice and share. A good prescription for little kids and for federal agencies trying to cut administrative and IT costs. But for kids and federal managers, shared services can be an uphill push. Federal Drive with Tom Temin asked Brian Siegel, principal in the federal consulting practice at Deloitte, why that is.
Speed matters, says Federal Drive host Tom Temin. When Defense Secretary Robert Gates stomped and hollered when MRAPs weren't there during the height of the Iraq war, by golly, DoD found a contractor to build them in march time.
The Defense Department will not be releasing a Better Buying Power 4.0 and will instead focus on policies from the past five years, which the under secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics said have been working.
The chief of OMB's new cyber unit says agencies have paid a lot of attention to preventing cyber breaches, but not enough to recovering from them.
Back in March, the Navy said it would test a new IT acquisition process called the innovation cell. Its purpose: to evaluate, buy and insert new commercial technologies onto its networks within the space of one year. It appears to have worked. The Navy made its first awards under the Innovation Cell framework yesterday. Victor Gavin is the Navy's program executive officer for enterprise information systems, and Dan DelGrosso is the PEO-EIS technical director. On Federal Drive with Tom Temin, they talked with Federal News Radio's Jared Serbu about the awards, and what the Navy has learned from the process so far. Gavin speaks first.
The Air Force's outgoing acquisition chief says there is a lack of incentives for making program schedules faster.
As possibly the biggest buyer of fuel in the world, the Defense Department can ill-afford to make mistakes in forecasting prices. If it guesses wrong, it could face billions in unforeseen costs. But the Government Accountability Office found mistakes can happen. And this one was a doozy. Johana Ayers, GAO's director of defense capabilities and management issues, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
The Navy made its first awards under its new Innovation Cell framework for rapid IT acquisition Tuesday, and will insert new technologies for virtual desktops and military base IT infrastructure within the coming months.
The contracting world is competitive, to say the last. Contractors can be tempted to overlook certain bid specs to get ahead of the competition. But details like security clearances and other personnel qualifications are crucial. It's a big mistake to think the government isn't paying attention. Two companies recently learned that lesson the hard way. Larry Allen is the president of Allen Federal Business Partners. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that some services contractors need to be reminded of key basics.
Richard Lieberman, a consultant and retired attorney, warns government contractors not to begin work until they really have a contract.
David Shea, director of the Office of Charge Card Management at the General Services Administration joins host Mark Amtower to discuss all aspects of the federal SmartPay program. November 23, 2015