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Protests aren't the big holdup to defense acquisitions that industry thinks they are. New data from the Congressional Research Service shows protests aren't bad news for acquisitions. It's quite the opposite. Protests tend to push agencies to take action and resolve it themselves. Steve Schooner is co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at George Washington University. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the tough odds that protestors face.
July 30, 2015 -
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The General Services Administration signed its third MOU with a large federal organization to use the professional services governmentwide acquisition contract known as OASIS. In return for its pledge to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year, DHS receives a lower fee.
July 30, 2015 -
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The Pentagon capped off a more than two-year acquisition process for a new electronic health record today, awarding the contract to a consortium of companies led by Leidos. The new system will eventually roll out to more than a thousand sites around the world. It will replace DoD’s aging records system with a mostly-commercial IT product. More from Federal News Radio’s DoD reporter Jared Serbu.
July 29, 2015 -
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The Pentagon capped off a more than two-year acquisition process for a new electronic health record Wednesday afternoon, awarding a $4.3 billion contract to a consortium of companies led by Leidos.
July 29, 2015 -
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Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller is reporting this week from the National Contract Management Association’s World Congress in Dallas. He reports on CDC contracting, GSA's FedSIM program and the current status of DoD's new services acquisition policy.
July 29, 2015 -
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Chris Hamm, GSA's director of FedSIM, plans to take a different approach to using FAR Part 16.
July 29, 2015 -
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The DoD 5000.ac will detail a better, agile process for the military to buy services.
July 29, 2015 -
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received $1 billion in emergency funding last year to help deal with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, putting the contracting staff under pressure.
July 29, 2015 -
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The Defense Department is taking a scrub brush to its acquisition regulations and getting rid of any nasty growths that have been slowing down the process over the years. The Pentagon tested a handful of these changes already and is finding success in taking out layers of bureaucracy. Katrina McFarland is the assistant secretary of Defense for acquisition. After her speech at the National Contract Management Association’s World Congress in Dallas, she told Executive Editor Jason Miller about DoD’s acquisition regulation scrubbing effort.
July 29, 2015 -
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Katrina McFarland, the assistant secretary of Defense for acquisition, said a new report is in the final approval stages that will detail changes to the Defense FAR. The goal is to save the military and industry money from unnecessary procurement rules.
July 29, 2015 -
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Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group and chairman of the Coalition for Government Procurement, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss market strategies, end of year procurement trends and more. July 28, 2015
July 28, 2015 -
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The Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command will be in charge of hiring a contractor to provide identity-protection services to victims of the breach on the Office of Personnel Management's background-investigation database. NAVSEA will issue an RFQ early next week. GSA was supposed to send it out this week.
July 28, 2015 -
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The House has a number of bills on its calendar this week that, if enacted, could have significant impacts on federal employees and their dependents.
July 28, 2015 -
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The White House is giving agencies three years to process all their invoices electronically through a shared service provider. The Office of Management and Budget released details for how you should make that happen as part of the President’s second term management agenda. Dave Mader is the Controller and Acting Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget. He tells Executive Editor Jason Miller about the new electronic invoicing requirement.
July 28, 2015
