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Contractors are nervous about the continuing resolution the government is operating under since Saturday
Mentor-protege arrangements between large and small contractors have proven effective in helping primes and the government itself reach their annual small business goals.
Three new initiatives are coming in October to connect small innovators with Navy programs and test and fund the development of their technologies.
Stephanie Geiger, executive vice president and co-founder of Government Marketing University, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the founding of GMarkU and the upcoming GAIN conference in October.
Contractors have long urged agencies to expand the debriefings they give to losing bidders after making an award. In one recent case, an enhanced debriefing lead to a turnover in the award. The new award turned out to be protest proof. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked about the project, worth tens of millions of dollars, with Joe Petrillo, Smith Pachter McWhorter procurement attorney.
Baker Tilly’s Jeff Clayton, Leo Alvarez, and Julia Smith host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf, for a wide-ranging discussion of compliance, procurement, and market trends impacting companies engaged in the federal marketplace.
Stephanie Halcrow, president of the Halcrow Group and senior fellow at George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting and Moshe Schwartz, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss their report: "The Power of Many: Leveraging Consortia to Promote Innovation, Expand the Defense Industrial Base, and Accelerate Acquisition."
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chairman of Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, introduced and the full body passed the SBIR and STTR Extension Act of 2022 on Wednesday.
The Federal Acquisition Regulation is clear, fixed-price contracts are just that: Fixed price. There's no provision for adjustments because of inflation. Or is there? A memo last week from the Defense Pricing and Contracting office offers some hope. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with someone who has studied the memo closely: Zach Prince, a partner at Smith, Pachter, McWhorter.
Contractors working in buildings controlled by the General Services Administration might get buttonholed by a union organizer. That's allowed now under a rule the GSA just finalized. What do contractor executives think about that? The Federal Drive with Tom Temin talks about that with Stephanie Kostro, the executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council.
DARPA thinks security clearance issues are keeping a vast array of innovative companies from solving the government's biggest problems. The agency thinks it has big idea to bridge the security clearance gap.
Although FASA’s implementation started out with promise, 27 years on we have witnessed regulatory, operational and procedural steps backward.
The Senate version of the 2023 defense authorization bill contains something called a progress payment incentive pilot program to create more transparency in contracting.
GSA and DoD updated policies to require make it a little easier for vendors to raises prices under current contracts.