Contracting
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VA says it wants an evolving technology-as-a-service approach to manage its multibillion dollar logistics enterprise, and plans to select its own vendor to handle those responsibilities for the next decade.
December 14, 2022 -
Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss transactional data reporting, eCommerce and the government-industry dialogue at the Coalition for Government Procurement’s recent fall training conference.
December 13, 2022 -
John Chierichella, founder of Chierichella Procurement Strategies, explains three strategies to help vendors plan for potential challenges to an award.
December 13, 2022 -
You might not be familiar with a company called DJI. It's a large, Chinese drone manufacturer. The Army and Interior Department have banned DJI products, because the company — which is closely associated with the Chinese Communist Party — is a security threat.
December 09, 2022 -
The Pentagon expects to get the ordering process for new JWCC services off the ground quickly now that awards have been issued to four companies, but each task order could take longer to process than DoD originally anticipated.
December 09, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: IBM's shopping spree lands a Reston firm, as it gobbles up its 25th company since 2020. DoD's chief financial officer wants an actual budget to pass, not a CR. And the Veterans Affairs Department continues to struggle to comply with a litany of laws.
December 08, 2022 -
Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google and Oracle won spots on DoD’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) vehicle.
December 07, 2022 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has been banging this particular drum for years now. Not only are agencies allowed to engage in discussions with industry before they craft procurements, doing so is usually a good thing. Now that principle is enshrined in the Federal Acquisition Regulation via a new rule issued just last week.
December 06, 2022 -
The Government Accountability Office dismissed 117 protests after NITAAC said it reassess the self-scoring cut-off line and relook at offers.
December 01, 2022 -
Mark Amtower is joined by Sanjt Ganguli, Vice president, Transformation Strategy and Field CTO of Zscaler.
December 01, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: We have the numbers on a banner year for GSA IT contracts. The Space Force orbits into its first overseas combatant command. And the VA's shift away from paper checks snuffs out fraud.
November 30, 2022 -
The Biden administration has proposed a new rule for federal contractors. It wants them to report their greenhouse gas emission levels, financial risks, and what the proposals calls "science-based emissions reduction targets."
November 21, 2022 -
When faced with a crush of protests, other agencies have struggled to get out from underneath them to award large contract vehicles and now NITAAC is facing a similar challenge.
November 17, 2022 -
For the fifth year in a row, the number of bid protests presented for adjudication to the Government Accountability Office has dropped.
November 16, 2022 -
Tim Cook, executive director of the Center for Procurement Advocacy (CPA) and Tom Sisti, vice president, and general counsel of the Coalition for Government Procurement discuss key developments in acquisition policy programs.
November 14, 2022