Contracting
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Last year was a good one to be a federal contractor because of the pandemic and a few other things. Federal contract spending went up by double digits.
June 22, 2021 -
The Department of Homeland Security is facing two protests of its FirstSource III request for proposals after two companies questioned the requirements.
June 22, 2021 -
The Pentagon has a new strategy to deliver cloud services to OCONUS users, but a single, JEDI-like enterprise cloud service is conspicuously absent from discussion in the document.
June 21, 2021 -
Chris Golden of Horizons Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, said the CMMC approach is good in theory, but lacks anywhere near the resources it needs to get it done.
June 18, 2021 -
Contracting officers can have interchanges with bidders, but they have to be done fairly, or else the bidder is likely to protest, as the Navy found out recently.
June 17, 2021 -
The Office of Management and Budget designed category management policies to help save the federal government money in its acquisition process. The initiative’s side effects, however, have axed the number of small business vendors.
June 17, 2021 -
Members come along from time to time who do care about efficient operation of the federal bureaucracy.
June 15, 2021 -
Scott Jensen, executive director of the National Veterans Small Business Coalition joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a discussion about the NVSBC and the issues facing veteran-owned small businesses.
June 14, 2021 -
David Cole, partner with Holland & Knight’s corporate and securities group, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to share his thoughts and insights on how government contractors should think about their capital structures.
June 14, 2021 -
A new draft memo, GSA says using the consumption model for cloud services would increase competition, and encourage new entrants to the schedule program.
June 14, 2021 -
The Biden administration has proposed showering every federal agency with expanded money, with the exceptions of the departments of Homeland Security and Defense.
June 14, 2021 -
The Army has expanded its temporary lodging improvement plans out to 2029.
June 14, 2021 -
Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, and Tom Sisti, executive vice president and general counsel at the Coalition for Government Procurement, join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off The Shelf for a mid-year update on current programmatic, policy, and market trends in federal procurement.
June 11, 2021 -
As with many things in life, in the world of IT GWACs and governmentwide contracting vehicles, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
June 11, 2021 -
The National Contract Management Association has a new president - retired Air Force Lieutenant General and former director of the Defense Contract Management Agency, Wendy Masiello.
June 10, 2021