Contracting
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Procurement administrative lead time is a nice phrase for how bureaucratically long it takes from when the time an agency decides it might need to buy something, to when it awards a contract.
January 28, 2020 -
Dr. Michael Wooten, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said he is preparing the workforce for a future where robotics process automation and artificial intelligence take over the mundane tasks of acquisition.
January 27, 2020 -
The General Services Administration’s senior procurement executive Jeff Koses sent to industry for comments a draft acquisition letter detailing how buying consumption based cloud services could work.
January 27, 2020 -
One of the sponsors is California Democrat Ro Khanna, who joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk more.
January 27, 2020 -
Roger Waldron of the Coalition for Government Procurement pondered a law professor's denied request by GAO for documents in Overstock.com's pending protest over GSA's e-marketplace procurement.
January 24, 2020 -
This week on Amtower Off Center, Joshua Frank, managing partner of RSM Federal joins host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion of consolidated schedules, category management and how to get ahead of the bidding process.
January 23, 2020 -
Amazon signaled its intent to stop Microsoft and DoD from getting to work on JEDI, but its arguments for why the work should be blocked were filed under seal.
January 23, 2020 -
The Advanced Battle Management System will conduct demonstrations every four months to test program connectivity.
January 21, 2020 -
Mary Davie, GSA’s director of the program management office for human resources shared services, will leave the agency after 30 years on Feb. 3.
January 21, 2020 -
Pitch days are growing in popularity. They often go with the use of non-traditional acquisition techniques.
January 21, 2020 -
Gen. John Hyten, the new vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says DoD must fix its requirements processes -- not just its acquisition rules -- if it wants to solve its software development challenges.
January 21, 2020 -
DISA is moving toward iterative or agile approaches to acquisition and projects in order to avoid planning and implementation mistakes of the past.
January 20, 2020 -
Seyfarth Law Firm construction and government contracts attorney Teddie Arnold joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for details.
January 20, 2020 -
Kelly Morrison, a senior advisor at USAID, and Mona Siddiqui, the HHS CDO, are among several federal technology executives who are moving to the private sector in early 2020.
January 20, 2020 -
Jennie Main, the CMS chief operating officer, and Rajiv Uppal, the CMS CIO, in separate panels detailed how the agency is retraining employees and focusing more on collaboration and customer needs.
January 20, 2020