Contracting
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The Pentagon is revising its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program by massively reducing the amount of companies that would require third-party assessments and providing new waiver processes for select requirements.
November 04, 2021 -
DoD's use of other transaction agreements has expanded ten-fold in the past five years, but even inside the acquisition workforce, there are still persistent myths about what OTAs can and can't do.
November 04, 2021 -
Bill Morris, business operations manager at Noblis RunAcquisitions, says rather than being overwhelmed by the growing complexity of acquisitions, agencies employing lifecycle acquisitions management can streamline their operations.
November 03, 2021 -
The Air Force's Office of Financial Management and Comptroller is making lots of moves to improve its IT, including developing a new acquisition strategy, hiring a CDO, implementing automation and addressing ICAM issues.
November 02, 2021 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency annual forecast to industry day highlighted several upcoming contract opportunities, but more importantly laid out the path the agency is heading for the next year.
November 02, 2021 -
Sheppard Mullin partners Jonathan Aronie, Ryan Roberts, and Denise Giraudo, joined host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the implementation of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors.
November 01, 2021 -
The system allows ACC to continuously update software and provide patches.
October 29, 2021 -
Few people have more experience in the intricacies of federal procurement than Soraya Correa. Now she's been inducted as a fellow into the National Academy of Public Administration.
October 29, 2021 -
In a report to Congress, GSA says it would be too expensive to test out the e-procurement and e-commerce platform approaches under the commercial platform initiative.
October 27, 2021 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement and CompTIA wrote separate letters to GSA asking for clarification and offering feedback on two issues related to cloud computing.
October 26, 2021 -
Nico Papafil, director of the General Services Administration’s 10x program, said the program will fund more such ideas than ever before in fiscal 2022.
October 22, 2021 -
GSA's strategy creates vertical contract duplication, unnecessarily increasing bid and proposal, contract administration, and program management costs, says the Coalition for Government Procurement's Roger Waldron.
October 22, 2021 -
Jimmy Smith, the director of the Office of Small Business programs for the Department of the Navy, said the service awarded more than $17 billion in prime contracts to small firms in fiscal 2021.
October 21, 2021 -
Spending on professional services has been steadily increasing every year.
October 20, 2021 -
Cheryl Davis, senior director for Strategic Initiatives at Oracle, joined host Roger Waldron on Off the Shelf to discuss the many cybersecurity challenges facing contractors and the federal government.
October 19, 2021