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Federal employees are frustrated by long wait times and poor communication about why it's taking so long to change benefits during Open Season.
In this week's Inside the Reporter's Notebook, vendors and agencies need to improve communication starting with oral debriefings for all contract awards as part of an effort to stem the real and perceived increases of bid-protests, says Rob Burton, a former OFPP deputy administrator and now partner with Venable.
OFPP Administrator Anne Rung released a memo telling agencies to accept others' earned value management system certifications.
Vendors and agencies need to improve communication starting with oral debriefings for all contract awards as part of an effort to stem the real and perceived increases of bid-protests, said Rob Burton, a former OFPP deputy administrator and now partner with Venable.
Federal CIOs are unsure of the value of the new platform-as-a-service from GSA's 18F, but are interested in learning more. Meanwhile, industry and other CIOs are concerned about unfair competition.
The General Services Administration on Oct. 16 released a 15-year, $50 billion telecommunications solicitation as the follow-on to the Networx contract. GSA hopes to avoid the mistakes it made with Networx with the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle.
LaVerne Council, the Veterans Affairs Department's new CIO, is trying to take on long-standing cybersecurity problems and repair her office's relationship with Capitol Hill.
Federal CIOs are unsure of the value of the new platform-as-a-service from GSA's 18F, but are interested in learning more. Meanwhile, industry and other CIOs are concerned about unfair competition.
Darren Blue is heading over to the Veterans Affairs Department after spending the last seven years at GSA. The FDIC gets a new CIO and NNSA a new chief learning officer.
While industry is excited about the Internet of Things, agencies have shown they've been interconnecting systems and applications for years. But the Privacy Act is standing in the government's way to go further, some say.
Darren Blue is heading over to the Veterans Affairs Department after spending the last seven years at GSA. The FDIC gets a new CIO and NNSA a new chief learning officer.
A year in the making, the General Services Administration launched a consolidated professional services schedule contract on Oct. 1 to merge eight multiple award contracts into one.
The Senate's Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would give DHS emergency powers during a cyber attack on federal or contractor networks holding federal data. Some say the provision is too vague.
The rate of mergers and acquisitions in industry isn't just impacting the Defense Department, but civilian agencies as well.