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Contractors have a busy rest of the summer. Requests for proposals now or about to be on the street will amount to $92 billion worth of future opportunities. That's according to analysis by Bloomberg Government. More than half of that will come from the General Services Administration's forthcoming Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions multiple award program. Brian Friel is a government contracts analyst at Bloomberg. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to preview these upcoming multiple award contracts.
August 28, 2015 -
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Veteran owned small businesses might have too many options to help them earn federal contracting opportunities. And the differences between the Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Concern and Vets First program are confusing. Marci Love Thomas is senior counsel at the General Counsel's government contracts practice and former senior attorney adviser at the Small Business Administration. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the differences between the two programs.
August 27, 2015 -
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Congress doesn't come back to Washington until after the Labor Day holiday, but pretty much everyone watching the budget process thinks Congress will pass a continuing resolution of some kind. Larry Allen is the president of Allen Federal Business Partners and author of the Week Ahead newsletter. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that a CR isn't just bad for agencies — it's bad for contractors too.
August 27, 2015 -
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Perception isn't reality for bid protests in the federal government. Some perceptions — like there are more protests than ever — are more chatter than they are real. Ralph White is managing associate general counsel for procurement law at the Government Accountability Office. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose the idea that there are more protests than ever isn't supported by the numbers.
August 27, 2015 -
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GSA officials want feedback on new digital tools designed to help acquisition workers cut back on cost and time when choosing contracts.
August 27, 2015 -
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Shana Simmons, a GEOINT Integration Capabilities Officer with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said six apps are going through a commercial-like process to gain approval and become available to buy through NGA’s app store.
August 27, 2015 -
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Last month, an appeals court unanimously ruled that an employee can have more than one employer for the purposes of liability. The court said that when an employee is hired by one company but works for another, the companies can be considered joint employers, and can both be sued for discrimination under a provision of the Civil Rights Act. This could have big implications for federal contractors and their subs. Terry O'Conner is the director of government contracts at the law firm Berenzweig Leonard. In this week's Legal Loop, he joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the case and its implications.
August 27, 2015 -
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Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote to the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center, the Pentagon's Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the Interior Department's National Business Center and the General Service Administration's National Payroll Branch asking for details on their reporting of wage and tax statements in an effort to ensure tax refunds are going to the right people.
August 27, 2015 -
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The Department of Defense has been working on guidelines to help its contracting officers decide whether potential noncompetitive contracts are worth their advertised prices. The new guidelines address different ways agencies can tackle situations where they don't have information available to them.
August 26, 2015 -
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The Army awarded the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle to Oshkosh. The contract could be worth as much as 30 billion dollars. The award is a blow to Lockheed Martin and AM General, the other bidders on the contract. James Tinsley is managing director at Avascent. He's been following the JLTV competition since the beginning and he tells In Depth with Francis Rose that the award to Oshkosh isn't a huge surprise.
August 26, 2015 -
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The Secretary of the Air Force and its Chief of Staff say a full year continuing resolution would have a significant impact on the service, particularly by slowing down or halting as many as 50 acquisition programs.
August 26, 2015 -
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The Acquisition Gateway at the General Services Administration is the culmination of a series of initiatives the administration and the agency have been focused on for a long time. Category management and hallways are just two of the initiatives rolled into the Acquisition Gateway. Laura Stanton is acting assistant commissioner for the Office of Strategy Management at the General Services Administration. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose the idea for the Acquisition Gateway sprung from talking to acquisition professionals in government.
August 25, 2015 -
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The Coast Guard is seeing many of its projects growing into programs of record with acquisition plans and contracts that are both on schedule and on budget thanks to a new strategy.
August 25, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is working on new training and guidance to help its contracting officers decide whether potential contracts are worth the price. The Government Accountability Office sampled 32 commercial contracts. DOD contracting officials asked for cost, pricing and other information to help them determine if contracts were reasonably priced for 12 of them. Bill Woods is director of acquisition and sourcing management issues at GAO. He said it's too early to say whether the Pentagon's training and guidance is working, but he tells In Depth with Francis Rose that contracting officers DO have some challenges.
August 24, 2015
