Contracting
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David Dowd, partner at Mayer Brown LLP, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the legal, policy and market implications of GSA's Section 846 e-commerce initiative.
August 04, 2019 -
Roger Waldron of the Coalition for Government Procurement argued it is important to recognize, however, that, consistent with the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act, there are circumstances that necessitate the use of government-unique terms and conditions.
August 02, 2019 -
The list of top federal contractors hasn’t changed much. BGOV's Dan Snyder joined the show to talk about the rankings and the trends behind this year’s data.
August 02, 2019 -
Sen. Josh Hawley's new bill would give legal authorities more power to act against social media companies that don't remove addictive features in their websites.
August 01, 2019 -
The team behind the FITARA scorecard at the Government Accountability Office says changes are in the works for the next IT modernization rubric.
August 01, 2019 -
For the latest, Tom Temin spoke with Bob Metzger, an attorney at Rogers, Joseph O'Donnell and co-author of the Mitre Report "Deliver Uncompromised."
July 31, 2019 -
The IRS implemented hundreds of recommendations Nina Olson made for administrative change, and 15 bills to implement her recommendations were signed into law.
July 31, 2019 -
Gary Gray, William Riski and George Schleh of Acquisition Systems Associates, make the case for why DoD should be more aggressive in their use of middle tier acquisition approaches.
July 30, 2019 -
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, the new DoD Secretary and the president continue to weigh-in on the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure procurement raising questions about the future of the initiative.
July 29, 2019 -
The General Services Administration’s inspector general recommended the Federal Acquisition Service cancel two of McKinsey and Company’s schedule contracts after finding problems with how the agency negotiated the prices for consulting services.
July 29, 2019 -
Potential contractors and grantees are waiting longer to get a CAGE Code from the Defense Logistics Agency, which is needed to do business with the government.
July 29, 2019 -
Mike Smoyer, CEO of the Digital Government Institute, joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss cybersecurity, IT modernization and the upcoming 930gov conference.
July 26, 2019 -
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's JEDI contract ran afoul of a law that requires large ID/IQ contracts to go to multiple vendors. But Oracle can't win its lawsuit on that basis.
July 26, 2019 -
Jose Arrieta, chief information officer at HHS, said the Accelerate platform will take data from the five current contract writing systems and add microservices on top so contracting officers can take advantage of the information to make better decisions.
July 26, 2019 -
It has been over one year since this blog discussed the issues associated with the Defense Department’s plan and justification for its single-award of a $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) cloud contract. DoD’s…
July 26, 2019