Contracting
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The Fed Cloud Blog told you it was coming. Now, the General Services Administration has officially released its request for quotation for e-mail, office automation and electronic records management cloud services. Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller reports the cloud contract has a ceiling of $2.5 billion over five years. The important dates to remember? Vendors [...]
May 10, 2011 -
Agencies have about five months to award a year\'s worth of contracts. And that\'s putting the squeeze on contracting officers and contractors alike. We talk about that with Aronson LLC\'s Hope Lane.
May 10, 2011 -
The IRS issues rules to hold back part of contractor payments, then holds back the rule. We talk about the impact with Steve Charles with the immixGroup.
May 10, 2011 -
The blanket purchase agreement could be worth $2.5 billion over five years. GSA wants vendors to bid on email-as-a-service, office automation and records management.
May 10, 2011 -
The General Services Administration has hired Kathy Conrad to be its new principal deputy associate administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies.
May 09, 2011 -
Researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies find trends toward more competition in Defense Department contracting between 1999 and 2010. The Washington think tank also found DoD also had increased the use of fixed price contracting.
May 09, 2011 -
Skip Trahern is President of Fedstore, and he joined us with analysis on the recent changes to working with the government.
May 06, 2011 -
The stand-down order was made Tuesday but is just now becoming public. It\'s unclear how long the stand down will last.
May 06, 2011 -
New OCI regs would allow government to tolerate conflict of interest... sometimes. Attorney Steve Ryan explains it for us.
May 06, 2011 -
Days after landing a $21 million contract with Agriculture, SAIC has gotten a new contract.
May 06, 2011 -
The Pentagon has been telling Congress for years it doesn\'t want the F136 alternative engine for the F35 fighter jet, because it costs too much money.
May 05, 2011 -
While Congress works on the law to create a new commission to dispose of excess federal civilian agency property, the Office of Management and Budget is getting a jumpstart on the process.
May 05, 2011 -
The alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is getting a new lease on life.
May 05, 2011 -
The Pentagon will issue new guidance this summer to move the military services away from buying technology in the same way they buy weapons. DoD\'s challenges are similar across the government, according to a new survey of CIOs. TechAmerica finds in their 21st survey of CIOs that technology managers believe acquisition employees need more expertise in buying IT.
May 05, 2011 -
Lance Davis, program manager of the Design Excellence Architecture program in the Public Buildings Service at the General Services Administration, tells Federal News Radio about new ways GSA is looking at office space.
May 04, 2011