Reporter's Notebook

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Commerce’s CATTS procurement exemplifies all that’s wrong with federal small business contracting

A dozen unsuccessful bidders protested the award of CATTS IT services contract, claiming Commerce didn’t evaluate their proposals properly.

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Protest is ‘last resort’ to get GSA’s commercial platforms program to comply with JWOD Act

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CISA signature federal cyber program warrants more than a passing anniversary nod

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FILE - Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., speaks at an event with President Joe Biden at the Arnaud C. Marts Center on the campus of Wilkes University, Aug. 30, 2022, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Casey, a member of the Intelligence Committee, said staff will often use a lockbag even simply to transport materials from committee offices to a sensitive compartmented information facility, known as a SCIF, some 30 feet (9 meters) away. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

The government’s Section 508 transparency problem

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, is leading the charge to bring some sunlight onto agency 508 efforts after accountability…

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GSA leadership, IG continue to butt heads over schedule price reasonableness

The General Services Administration’s inspector general released its third report or alert over the last year about the data behind the Transactional…

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You don’t speak DoDAF? The Navy feels your pain with its new plain language design concept

The Department of Navy’s CIO’s office spent a year writing the Capstone Design Concept for Information Superiority to make architecture easier to understand and use.

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