Contracting
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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 -
The Special Access Program Corporate Portfolio Program, begun as a pilot in 2016, became permanent last month.
January 11, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, new analysis from Bloomberg Government found agencies spent almost 700 billion dollars on procurement last year.
January 07, 2021 -
Two years after the Navy decentralized its cloud acquisitions, it's bringing all of them back under one program executive office's umbrella.
January 07, 2021 -
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar is planning on expanding its 5G coverage in the first four months of 2021.
January 05, 2021 -
The omnibus appropriations bill recently passed by Congress is so large, it took a week to stuff it into whatever antiquated electronic system the Congress operates. But not all federal documents are so fat and bloated.
December 30, 2020 -
Missing the guardrails by inches, the nation's careening political apparatus has managed to fund the government for fiscal 2021.
December 29, 2020