Contracting
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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 -
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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 -
An old lesson had a new airing when a contractor challenged the set-up of a blanket purchasing agreement.
November 25, 2020 -
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at General Services Administration, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to talk about policies and programs currently impacting federal procurement.
November 23, 2020 -
The Navy was a relative latecomer to other transaction agreements, but the service's usage of OTAs in the IT space has surged, and the service is moving prototypes to real-world capabilities.
November 19, 2020 -
NASA SEWP Program Director Joanne Woytek joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to recap the GWACs performance in fiscal year 2020 and how well it did in supporting the IT needs of federal agencies.
November 18, 2020 -
Sometimes things change after an agency issues a request for quotations. Like the possible deliverable quantities or other conditions. If the solicitation doesn't change along with it, the agency might be forced to start over.
November 18, 2020 -
Steve Schooner, Nash & Cibinic professor of Government Procurement Law at the George Washington University Law School, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss why the acquisition workforce should embrace sustainable procurement as a cost effective, long term investment for government.
November 17, 2020