Contracting
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GAO auditors have a couple more recommendations for the FDIC, which is meant to ensures the financial soundness of the banking system.
May 26, 2021 -
GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service flipped the switch on May 24 for the new SAM.gov portal bringing together 1.5 million users across six acquisition websites under one umbrella.
May 24, 2021 -
Pentagon says its putting a greater emphasis on the sustainment of weapons systems — a part of the lifecycle that accounts for 70% of the cost of a weapon.
May 20, 2021 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide-ranging discussion of the top contracting issues for the remainder of the fiscal year.
May 19, 2021 -
What are the current trends in antitrust enforcement? Find out when Justin Murphy, partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf.
May 18, 2021 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. That executive order on cybersecurity from the White House last week – where do you even…
May 18, 2021 -
The United States will likely be involved in Iraq at some level for a long time. It still has contracting going on via the State Dept. Recently State's Office of Inspector General looked at whether contracting activity was properly staffed to ensure oversight. For more, the Federal Drive turned to the director of the OIG's office of audits, Mike Vennemann.
May 17, 2021 -
A careful examination of DoD's use of consortiums for other transaction agreements found the Pentagon doesn't have a clear picture of its billions in OTA spending, who the recipients are, and what it's getting for those investments.
May 17, 2021 -
Edward Tuorinsky, the managing principal of DTS, and Derek Kernus, the Director of Cyber Security Operations at DTS, offers three things to consider as the Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements become more real.
May 14, 2021 -
President Joe Biden mandated dozens of new steps to address long-standing cybersecurity challenges in a new executive order signed Wednesday.
May 13, 2021 -
The Navy wants to leverage some of the work its major contractors have already done on digital engineering, but legal issues and intellectual property rights pose challenges.
May 13, 2021 -
The Defense Department is awarding more and more contracts to small businesses and companies that usually don’t do business with the Pentagon. In fact, the military is going out of its way to reach out…
May 10, 2021 -
Jeff Koses, GSA’s senior procurement executive, wrote in a blog post that the Transactional Data Reporting pilot proved it’s a worthy replacement for the dreaded Price Reduction Clause.
May 10, 2021 -
Following an apparently successful pilot project, DoD plans to start negotiations with SAP Concur on the price tag to fully replace its existing system.
May 10, 2021 -
Even for the government, the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is a complicated apparatus.
May 07, 2021