Contracting
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In recent years, federal acquisition policy and practice has been a competition between two different priorities: Efficiency and innovation. Instead of balancing these priorities, innovation has taken the backseat.
December 17, 2020 -
In her first public statements since the Nov. 23 decision to ascertain the election results, Emily Murphy, the GSA administrator, explained her thinking behind the decision and how she prepared for it and dealt with the noise that came from it.
December 16, 2020 -
The Space Force will be the 18th member of the collection of agencies providing national security information.
December 15, 2020 -
Multiple vendors as well as consultants, lawyers and a major GSA-focused trade association representing hundreds of schedule holders say the pendulum has swung too far in how the Federal Acquisition Service is requiring vendors to renegotiate prices.
December 15, 2020 -
Laura Stanton, Keith Nakasone and Allen Hill, members of the IT category leadership team at the General Services Administration, join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss cloud computing, eCommerce and GSA's IT procurement and management programs.
December 14, 2020 -
Final bids are due Feb. 8 for yet another massive DoD IT contract. Although it's attracted much less attention than JEDI, this one's winner-take-all too.
December 14, 2020 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Baker Tilly's Jeff Clayton join host Roger Waldron to discuss what the current regulatory push in the federal government means for federal contractors.
December 10, 2020 -
The defense contracting community is holding its collective breath, waiting for a batch of new contracts, that will be the first to require Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification.
December 08, 2020 -
Defense acquisition leaders are focused on change to the federal procurement system to relieve some of the reasons why many believe it is intransigent and inflexible.
December 08, 2020 -
What is market invention and how can it be used to grow your business? Find out when Adam Vasquez, CEO of Merit joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center.
December 08, 2020 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has signed on Google to help it find ways to make…
December 07, 2020 -
The annual Defense authorization bill is filled with policy changes for non-defense agencies, including more than 50 focused on cybersecurity and a host of others address small business contracting.
December 07, 2020 -
The Defense Department simply doesn't know how many people are in its software workforce, let alone how they're trained, promoted or recruited.
December 07, 2020 -
The Qualified Products List maintained by the Defense Logistics Agency turned ugly for one small business when it received a corrective action notice.
December 02, 2020 -
With a vaccine still on the horizon, and a presidential transition now underway, projections on contract spending for 2021 are murkier than usual.
November 30, 2020