Contracting
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by Meg Beasley Federal News Radio Your agency’s training budget is the second most likely target for the chopping block – surpassed only by travel – but you’re facing mandates to increase workplace performance. Today’s…
July 15, 2010 -
If outsourcing is the answer, what should be the question? We hear from Commissioner Grant Green of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
July 15, 2010 -
Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge winners announced, Northrop takes home the Hoyt Vandenberg Award
July 15, 2010 -
Buyers in the Defense Department who bundle small contracts into larger ones will have to post their actions on the Web. Bundling is the subject of a new interim rule. Roger Waldron, Counsel at the law firm Mayer Brown, explains.
July 15, 2010 -
Steve Kempf talks with DorobekInsider about what he hopes to accomplish as head of GSA\'s FAS.
July 14, 2010 -
Larry Allen of the Coalition for Government Procurement tells us more.
July 13, 2010 -
The State Department\'s plan to use private contractors in Iraq after after the troops withdraw next year is ‘not adequate,\' according to a report issued Monday.
July 13, 2010 -
Steve Kempf has been named to lead GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service. Kempf has been serving the acting commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service since the departure of Jim Williams in April. GSA's Kempf The Federal…
July 13, 2010 -
This week, host Larry Allen talks with Bill Gormley, President & CEO of the Washington Management Group. July 13, 2010
July 12, 2010 -
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The General Services Administration is reiterating its promise to boost cybersecurity and privacy of cloud computing. As part of the so-called FEDRAMP program, beginning this fall an interagency group will inspect vendors\' cloud computing facilities to make sure they meet federal security standards. If the group certifies a cloud facility, agencies would be able to sign up for service without having to further inspect the facility.
July 09, 2010 -
The next challenge for supporters of teleworking in the government has nothing to do with laptops, laws or cybersecurity. Instead, experts say that challenge will be to convince the recalcitrant manager in the office down the hall, who doesn\'t like the idea.
July 09, 2010 -
HP receives deal that could be for up to five years and worth up to $3 billion. Navy continues to develop follow-on contract, NGEN.
July 09, 2010 -
Several U.S. firms have not paid Afghan subcontractors for work those employees did in Afghanistan
July 08, 2010 -
OMB issues a fact sheet detailing successes across the government. Agencies are using fewer risky contracts and achieving more competition. One expert, however, wonders if the insourcing initiative is part of the reason for the changes.
July 08, 2010