Contracting
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U.S. Transportation Command has reaffirmed its original award decision in the $7.2 billion Global Household Goods contract after saying it would take corrective action.
June 29, 2020 -
The General Services Administration awarded proof-of-concepts to Amazon Business, Overstock.com and Fischer Scientific on Friday to provide agencies access to their commercial e-commerce platforms for purchases below the micro-purchase threshold of $10,000.
June 29, 2020 -
The General Services Administration said in April the 8(a) STARS II govermentwide acquisition contract for IT services hit its contract ceiling, but now it has increased the vehicle’s maximum obligations to $22 billion.
June 24, 2020 -
The private organization administering the Cybersecurity Certification Model Certification Program on DoD's behalf opened the application process for five types of participants in the CMMC "ecosystem."
June 24, 2020 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf, to discuss the recent procedural delays in the awarding of major IDIQ contracts.
June 23, 2020 -
The University of Oklahoma's Graduate School of Business has launched an online graduate degree program for aerospace and defense.
June 19, 2020 -
Proxy voting with or without quorum, video hearings, limiting member travel and maintaining social distancing at the Capitol have required lawmakers to reconsider the long-term viability of some well-established practices.
June 18, 2020 -
Although the Defense contracting community has never dealt with a situation quite like the current pandemic, the Pentagon's IG says there are enough lessons from past emergencies to help minimize waste, fraud and abuse.
June 18, 2020 -
ACT-IAC released a new case study highlighting best practices and lessons learned for agencies as they implement the technologies under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract.
June 16, 2020 -
The escalating dispute between the U.S. and China over Chinese telecom giant Huawei has contractors wondering about telecom policy generally.
June 16, 2020 -
The Army will bifurcate its headquarters IT leadership office in August, creating a separate CIO office to make IT policies and putting a three-star military officer in charge of implementing them.
June 15, 2020 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Tom Sisti, executive vice president and general counsel for the Coalition for Government Procurement, joins host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging discussion of the top issues affecting contractors.
June 13, 2020 -
The Government Accountability Office ruled against GDIT in its protest of the $7.7 billion award to Leidos. A separate protest, filed by Perspecta, is due to be settled by next week.
June 12, 2020 -
Contractors haven't submitted invoices yet, partly because no money is available. But DoD says the bill to repay vendors for their employees' paid leave will run into the double-digit billion dollar range.
June 11, 2020 -
GAO dismissed Perspecta’s second protest of the enterprise email and cloud collaboration contract called DEOS awarded to GDIT in August after GSA said it would take corrective action.
June 10, 2020