Contracting
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Acquisition letter addresses pricing flexibility for multiple awards schedule (MAS) contractors to address the impact of inflation across their business operations.
April 01, 2022 -
Matt Donovan, senior vice president and partner at the Merritt Group joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion on marketing issues facing government contractors.
April 01, 2022 -
Federal contractors have high confidence for the future of their businesses, especially if they're selling cybersecurity services and anything with the word infrastructure in it. That's according to a new index, which purports to be the first of its kind.
March 31, 2022 -
Laura Stanton, the Governmentwide IT category manager and assistant commissioner for the IT Category in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide ranging discussion of IT category management’s operating principals, goals, and impact across the federal space.
March 31, 2022 -
The $13.8 billion budget suggests getting a commercial icebreaker.
March 30, 2022 -
A simple competition for software licenses ended up in court after the losing bidder claimed a Procurement Integrity Act violation. At issue was a Navy-run competition to supply software licenses over five years under a blanket purchase agreement. Simple, but not trivial, with an estimated ceiling of $2.5 billion.
March 30, 2022 -
The General Services Administration changed the requirements for bidding on the $10 billion Polaris small business contract at the last minute causing some small firms to second guess their plans.
March 29, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a bi-partisan group of Senators are taking aim at organizational conflicts of interest among federal contractors.
March 29, 2022 -
Memi Whitehead, the deputy assistant commissioner of GSA’s Integrated Award Environment, said a six-month effort to test and prepare for the changeover went well.
March 28, 2022 -
Amy Haseltine, the deputy assistant commissioner for acquisitions in the Office of the IT Category in the Federal Acquisition Service, said GSA is offering a neutral environment to address EIS transition challenges.
March 25, 2022 -
Effective immediately, the Acquisition Letter brings pricing flexibility for Multiple Awards Schedule contractors suffering the impact of inflation across their business operations.
March 25, 2022 -
Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss how inflation is impacting the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Schedules program.
March 25, 2022 -
Ken Dodds, vice president and industry expert at Live Oak Bank, joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a review of 2021’s key small business policy changes, program developments and market trends.
March 25, 2022 -
Brian Chidester, Industry vice president - Worldwide Public Sector at Genesys, joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion on trends in government contracting.
March 25, 2022 -
The Postal Service, under intense pressure from Congress and the Biden administration, has doubled its initial order for electric vehicles as part of its next-generation delivery vehicle fleet.
March 24, 2022