Contracting
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The General Services Administration has dubbed a blanket purchasing agreement for cloud services with the name ASCEND. Is GSA rising to the occasion? Federal Drive with Tom Temin got one view from federal sales and marketing consultant, Larry Allen.
April 12, 2022 -
Joanne Woytek, program director of NASA SEWP, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the current and evolving status of GovCon's most famous GWAC.
April 12, 2022 -
Joanne Woytek, program manager for NASA SEWP, provides an update on NASA SEWP’s performance over the last fiscal year, highlighting key contract features enhancing value and flexibility for customer agencies.
April 12, 2022 -
Technology departments must plan for future needs further in advance, something that may be difficult with the federal government’s current IT planning and procurement structure.
April 11, 2022 -
General Services Administration sees a shift in contract obligation and business volume data where sustainability is concerned.
April 08, 2022 -
A lot of the data that government produces needs to be rated; safe to distribute, controlled but unclassified, or maybe secret and classified. That's simplifying this huge but never-ending task. Now the Defense Department has launched a challenge prize program to develop an artificial intelligence approach to automating some of this tedious task.
April 08, 2022 -
The General Services Administration wants to be the prime destination or federal agencies’ cloud solutions. Now it’s launching a new blanket purchase agreement specifically for cloud technology.
April 06, 2022 -
Earlier this month, the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council, the FAR Council, finalized new, more stringent rules for U.S. content in what agencies buy.
April 05, 2022 -
GSA FAS Commissioner Sonny Hashmi outlined five personnel moves as part of his approach to improving customer experience.
April 01, 2022 -
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