Contracting
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Long story short — the Air Force sought to acquire space launch services through an unusual contracting strategy of trying to award two compatible bids.
December 20, 2019 -
Aaron Heffron, president of Market Connections joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center, to discuss the results from the recently released 2019 Federal Media and Marketing Study which examines the media consumption habits of federal workers.
December 20, 2019 -
Maj. Gen. Cameron Holt, the deputy assistant secretary for contracting in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, said 80% of companies who won contracts at Pitch Days were non-traditional contractors.
December 20, 2019 -
C2 Technologies CEO Dolly Oberoi joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the evolution of the "small business" contracting ecosystem and why now is a great time to be a small contractor in government.
December 18, 2019 -
Holland and Knight partner and procurement attorney Eric Crucius joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin in the studio to discuss what it's all about.
December 18, 2019 -
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is moving fast but in a transparent manner.
December 18, 2019 -
Congress has ordered DoD to give losing bidders detailed information about why they weren't chosen. DoD's alleged failure to do that in the JEDI case may have contributed to the protest Amazon lodged in federal court.
December 18, 2019 -
Defense contractors have to keep their eyes and ears open this week, says Alan Chvotkin at the Professional Services Council.
December 17, 2019 -
Though rare, procurement fraud is a persistent problem. Now a former Air Force procurement official has put together a book on the topic.
December 13, 2019 -
The 2020 NDAA bars DoD from converting military medical billets to civilian ones until more analysis is done.
December 13, 2019 -
Tom Romeo, the general manager for the U.S. federal services segment for Maximus, said agencies have stiffened up the rules to get through the security clearance process and the backlog remains a big problem for vendors.
December 12, 2019 -
DoD will use U.S. Special Operations Command and U.S. Transportation Command to test its new cloud.
December 12, 2019 -
The Army is using other transaction authority to purchase prototypes of tactical vehicles that would be dropped from helicopters.
December 12, 2019 -
Mike Parkinson, author and principal at 24 Hour Company, joined this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss why graphics are important to proposals and how companies can use them to win more government contracts.
December 12, 2019 -
With half of GSA’s private leases set to expire in the next five years, the agency and its Public Buildings Services has a chance to shrink the government's real estate footprint.
December 11, 2019