Contracting
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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 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the impact of Covid 19 on the government contracting market.
May 21, 2020 -
The Defense Innovation Unit made significant strides in increasing the number of commercial prototypes that made it into warfighters’ hands and quickening the pace to award contracts in 2019.
May 20, 2020 -
A year after a critical inspector report found McKinsey and Company’s prices were 10% higher than originally proposed, GSA decided to end the firm’s schedule contract.
May 19, 2020 -
The General Services Administration’s 2GIT $5.5 billion IT services contract is facing its 13th bid protest while its Alliant 2 Small Business contract remains in limbo more than two years after making initial awards.
May 19, 2020 -
Vendors say they received little notice from GSA ahead of the 8(a) STARS II governmentwide contract reaching its contract ceiling in early April and this forced them and their agency customers to look for new procurement vehicles.
May 18, 2020 -
GSA has an opportunity to take the Multiple Award Schedule program to the next level, bringing 21st-century solutions to the federal customer and reforming a policy that is stuck in the 1980s.
May 15, 2020