Contracting
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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 -
Justice Department lawyers accuse Amazon of improperly redacting a "large quantity" of information from the publicly-released version of its JEDI lawsuit
December 11, 2019 -
With some of the latest ironies, federal marketing and procurement consultant Larry Allen joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
December 10, 2019 -
Contractors can now determine if they qualify as a small business based on a five-year revenue calculation instead of a three-year average under a new, much-anticipated rule from the Small Business Administration.
December 10, 2019 -
Federal procurement lawyers say the first quarter of the federal fiscal year tends to be among the busiest times of the year as contractors challenge awards and solicitations that came during the previous fourth quarter.
December 09, 2019 -
A redacted version of Amazon's lawsuit, unsealed Friday, claims DoD took a series of politically-influenced steps to devalue its bid and elevate Microsoft's.
December 09, 2019 -
Every agency has a certain percentage of contracts it's required to award to small business. The U.S. Agency for International Development has the added challenge of operating all over the world.
December 06, 2019