Contracting
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The Department of Veterans Affairs said it needs a six-month supply of personal protective equipment and other medical supplies to adequately handle a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, but it has a 30-day supply on hand today.
June 10, 2020 -
The Education Department, SBA and GSA are releasing new software capabilities every two weeks to help modernize major programs.
June 09, 2020 -
Defense Logistics Agency Director of Research and Development David Koch joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about a recent contract DLA awarded to develop equipment that can disinfect personal protective gear.
June 04, 2020 -
The military will try everything from ship-wide connectivity to augmented reality support in its newest 5G push.
June 04, 2020 -
Keith Johnson, the contracting lead for the CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP4 vehicles for NITAAC, said his office is reviewing industry comments on the $40 billion CIO-SP4 draft solicitation and will release the final one in late calendar year 2020.
June 04, 2020 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement wrote a letter to GSA asking how they are going to incorporate the White House executive order and DHS’s report on supply chain risk management into the e-commerce platform initiative.
June 02, 2020 -
Like other agencies, the National Security Agency is doing more online collaboration these days.
June 01, 2020 -
Gowen was the senior vice president and general manager of MetTel’s federal practice. The public sector sector also said goodbye to Timothy Shaughnessy as he retired on May 29 from the IRS after 33 years of federal service.
June 01, 2020 -
The CMMC Accreditation Body will release more details on or about June 1 about how companies can become certified three-party assessment organizations and individuals can be assessors.
May 29, 2020 -
We need to focus on the new authority we have for unpriced services contracts and incorporate that so that we can really focus on the technical qualifications of vendors and drive down pricing at the task order level when it matters most.
May 29, 2020 -
Dr. Charles “Chuck” Brandon, director for continuous process improvement (CPI) in the Army’s Office of Business Transformation, has led a team that has gotten rid of a backlog in the Army Review Boards Agency and reduced Procurement Acquisition Lead Time.
May 29, 2020 -
Mike Hettinger and Richard Beutel, who represent Unison, a reverse auction platform provider, make the case for why Congress should let agencies use the acquisition tool for personal protective equipment.
May 28, 2020 -
Some of the Army’s biggest programs may not stay on schedule as expected delays to new weapons systems come to fruition due to coronavirus. The service’s top acquisition official says most major weapons systems remain…
May 27, 2020 -
This week on Off the Shelf, Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller joins host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging interview where they discuss schedules modernization, the status of Section 889, and government operations during the time of Covid-19.
May 26, 2020 -
Keith Johnson, the contracting lead for the CIO-SP3 and CIO-SP4 vehicles for NITAAC, said a structural problem to the organization’s building forced employees to work remotely for more than a year so the adjustment during the coronavirus has been minimal.
May 25, 2020