Contracting
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When MARAD sought a vendor to buy, staff and maintain ships for its ready reserve fleet, it made a number of errors in its solicitation. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo has the details.
February 03, 2021 -
Eric Hysen worked on the Biden transition team before heading to Homeland Security.
February 02, 2021 -
The Defense Department continues to test out the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) process with pathfinders and plans to pilot the approach with 10 contracts in 2021.
February 02, 2021 -
Tim Cook of the Center for Procurement Advocacy, and Tom Sisti of the Coalition for Government Procurement, join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the top procurement policy issues in 2021.
February 02, 2021 -
The IT Industry Council, the Alliance for Digital Innovation and the Internet Association wrote to DISA questioning its decision to limit RFI responses to its cloud computing program support office acquisition.
February 01, 2021 -
Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the state of government-wide contracting in 2021.
February 01, 2021 -
As we kickoff 2021, the Coalition for Government Procurement took this opportunity to highlight 21 opportunities to improve the procurement system’s support of agency missions.
January 29, 2021 -
This week on Amtower Off Center, Brian Chidester, Global Public Sector marketing executive for OpenText, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the benefits and challenges of using the "whole of government" approach to resolving issues in the federal government.
January 28, 2021 -
The emergency acquisition authority is expected to get heavy use in Biden's first year as president.
January 27, 2021 -
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