Contracting
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Alan Thomas, the former commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration and now chief operating officer at IntelliBridge, encourages the administration to rethink some initiatives to make them more valuable and impactful.
January 27, 2021 -
DARPA awarded a contract to GrammaTech, whose vice president of research, Alexey Loginov, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what it is and why it's important.
January 27, 2021 -
NIST will finalize new publication NISTIR 8276 that will include eight key principles for protecting IT supply chains and release the draft to update SP 800-161, which will includes specific steps for agencies.
January 25, 2021 -
The order also creates "central review of agency waivers" of Buy American, with the General Services Administration posting them on a website.
January 25, 2021 -
If you buy for, or sell to the federal government, you can expect substantial change from the Biden administration.
January 20, 2021 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Jon Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss how key provisions in the 2021 NDAA impact defense procurement policy and operations.
January 20, 2021 -
Lee Frederiksen of Hinge Marketing joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss his company's updated research on "The Visible Expert".
January 20, 2021 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy released three memos since October to give agencies guidance on buying from AbilityOne firms, emphasizing skills over education in contracts.
January 20, 2021 -
DISA launched its cloud-based internet isolation program as a way to keep malware off of DoD networks, but it also reduced the need for expensive IT infrastructure upgrades.
January 18, 2021 -
Federal agencies - and there are several of them at least - affected by the SolarWinds cybersecurity fiasco are under a new deadline.
January 14, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, GSA is removing all drones from Multiple Award Schedule Contracts that do not have the approval of the Defense Department.
January 14, 2021 -
The program aims to fight the problem of "adversarial capital" by pairing companies working on promising military technology together with investors that DoD has verified are free of foreign influence.
January 14, 2021 -
Federal spending never stops rising, and that's certainly true of contracts spending. The pandemic has accelerated contract spending in several categories.
January 13, 2021 -
The General Services Administration is keeping contractors on their toes with the release of three acquisition initiatives — Polaris, the new small business governmentwide contract, and two requests for information around emerging technology and professional services.
January 12, 2021 -
New data in the Government Accountability Act’s fiscal 2020 report to Congress on bid protests shows that vendors received some sort of corrective action 51% of the time.
January 11, 2021