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The General Services Administration's new push to consolidate services contracts comes about because of another governmentwide contracting initiative. Federal News Radio reports GSA will try to consolidate many expiring services contracts into a few multiple-award contracts. Tiffany Hixson is commissioner for Region 10 in GSA's Federal Acquisition Service and she oversees all of GSA's governmentwide professional support service schedule contracts like the Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services contract known as MOBIS. She told In Depth with Francis Rose the effort to remake the services contracts started within GSA and another big contracting initiative is driving it.
October 30, 2015 -
When President Barack Obama vetoed the annual defense authorization bill earlier this month, most of the attention was on overall federal spending levels and restrictions on closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay. But in a recent column for Forbes, Charles Tiefer points out that the President raised a lot of other objections having to do with wasteful spending and Congress' ongoing refusal to authorize another round of base closures. Tiefer, a professor of law at the University of Baltimore, told In Depth with Francis Rose the other issues in the President's veto message deserve more public attention than they've gotten.
October 30, 2015 -
The Veterans Affairs Department is telling Congress how it's going to meet veterans' health care needs. The plan, due Sunday, stems from the patient care crisis that rocked the VA last year. At the heart of it is the admission that VA can't do this all by itself as its new under secretary for health David Shulkin tells Federal News Radio's Emily Kopp.
October 30, 2015 -
A huge number of professional services contracts are due to expire across the government during fiscal 2016. By the General Services Administration's accounting, $26 billion worth of contracts are due to run out over the next year and GSA sees it as the perfect chance to reduce some duplication in service contracting vehicles. There are thousands of them across government and consolidate that work into a smaller number of multiple-award contracting vehicles. Bob Lohfeld is CEO of the Lohfeld Consulting Group, joined Jared Serbu on In Depth with Francis Rose to talk about a busy year ahead for service contract competition.
October 30, 2015 -
On paper, shared services seem like a great way to lower IT infrastructure costs get rid of redundant applications and efforts. In reality, shared services come with some big challenges. The Association of Government Accountants surveyed would-be federal users of shared services. AGA CEO Ann Ebberts joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 30, 2015 -
The nation’s transportation system must handle 70 million more people in the coming years.
October 30, 2015 -
VA wants to focus on the specialized care related to veterans' service that other facilities cannot do. But it may stop providing services commonly found elsewhere.
October 30, 2015 -
The No Bonuses for Tax Cheats Act would withhold bonuses from Internal Revenue Service Employees with a record of misconduct or tax delinquency.
October 29, 2015 -
Casey Kelley, John Cavadias and Richard Blake, members of GSA's Alliant 2 management team will discuss the program's overall acquisition strategy and goals. October 27, 2015
October 29, 2015 -
Congress will rework the Defense authorization act to conform to budget deal parameters if it cannot garner enough votes to override the President’s veto.
October 29, 2015 -
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz is calling for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen's impeachment. He and 18 members of his committee introduced a resolution earlier this week. Chaffetz says Koskinen didn't comply with the congressional subpoena investigating controversial email scandals and audit backlogs at the IRS. The Senate says it wants to see more evidence of accountability at the agency. More now from Federal News Radio's Nicole Ogrysko.
October 29, 2015 -
FEMA may have improperly handed out $250 million in disaster relief funds to Hurricane Sandy survivors who were already covered by their own insurance companies. That's according to a new audit by Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, which used data analytics tools to spot potential improper payments. The OIG found up to 29,000 Sandy aid applicants may have gotten the payments even though they had insurance. John Kelly, assistant inspector general for Emergency Management Oversight at DHS, talked about the findings with In Depth guest host Jared Serbu.
October 29, 2015 -
If human resources is so important and HR specialists are a mission critical occupation, why is it so rare to find someone who says they are happy with their HR support?
October 29, 2015 -
The Marine Corps’ Deputy Commandant said the investments in cyber and information warfare will make up for fewer Marines.
October 28, 2015 -
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has released a new plan. He wants to increase the transparency of the intelligence community. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione has more.
October 28, 2015