Contracting
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Deborah Haywood, of McKesson Medical Surgical, joined this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the imperative of medical supply chain resilience and the role of the national strategic stockpile.
August 22, 2022 -
Intellectual property attorney Linda Hutchison joined host Mark Amtower of this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss how to protect your IP and how to avoid infringing on someone else's.
August 22, 2022 -
The Federal Acquisition launched the final piece of the replacement for the Federal Acquisition Institute Training Application System (FAITAS) in May, terminating the 11-year-old technology.
August 19, 2022 -
Ben Hall, chief executive officer of Golden State Medical Supply, Inc. (GSMS), joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging discussion focusing on key contracting programs and purchasing trends in the federal generic pharmaceutical market.
August 16, 2022 -
Alan Thomas, chief operating officer at IntelliBridge, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the key management, procurement, and policy trends at GSA.
August 16, 2022 -
The Defense Health Agency publicly called out seven companies who are ineligible to bid on a $1.5 billion IT contract because those firms won a spot on a different DHA contract.
August 15, 2022 -
Over the course of the last week, the General Services Administration issued and received comments on a draft Ascend Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). This BPA seeks to assist agencies in their efforts “to develop and implement enterprise-level cloud acquisition strategies through a modernized and simplified approach to meet their IT and cybersecurity requirements.”
August 12, 2022 -
McMahon, Welch and Learned PLLC attorney Lew Rhodes joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion on bid protests.
August 12, 2022 -
For many years the Department of Veterans Affairs has worked to make it easier for veterans to access VA services. Now the department is two months into an effort to make it easier for vendors — and what the department calls "innovators" — to put their services and capabilities before VA program and contract people. It's a website called Pathfinder.
August 11, 2022 -
For the U.S. Army and one of its software contractors, the conflict in Afghanistan is still going on. An unresolved dispute over licensing of language translation software has entered a new phase, eight years after the company first claimed breach of contract.
August 10, 2022 -
The Mentor-Protégé Program has been around for 30 years, but still is not a permanent program
August 10, 2022 -
It’s that time of year when activity on Capitol Hill usually falls into a lull. But this year’s the rare occurrence when big legislative activity is happening in August. The Senate passed a huge reconciliation bill over the weekend; the House is expected to do the same later this week. Meanwhile both houses have a lot of work waiting for them to reconcile their versions of the annual appropriations and authorization bills.
August 09, 2022 -
Joyce Bose, president and CEO of Boscobel Marketing Communications, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a lively discussion on the continuing impact of public relations in GovCon.
August 05, 2022 -
The AGILE Procurement Act in the Senate intends to make it easier for the government to buy commercial goods and services.
August 02, 2022 -
Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the state of governmentwide contracting, with a focus on GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule program.
August 02, 2022