Alan Chvotkin
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Congress is considering several reform bills, and agencies are supposed to be complying with the Trump administration's create-one, kill-two order. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, provides an update for Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 22, 2017 -
When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson kicked off a reorganization with a speech to career employees, he followed that with a survey going to everyone. It's part of a governmentwide reorganization envisioned by the Trump administration. And it's got observers, like contractors, wondering where this is all headed. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, offers his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 08, 2017 -
The Defense Contract Audit Agency is beset by backlogs and other problems and industry has ideas that might help.
April 17, 2017 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s ambitious plan to reorganize and restructure the government is asking agencies to consider ideas such as shared services, insourcing and outsourcing and all-but-mandating the use of existing multiple-award contracts. These concepts have real potential to change and transform agencies and their mission areas.
April 17, 2017 -
To federal contractors, the Trump administration feels a bit like an unbaked souffle. Lots of broken eggs and a hot oven, but nothing fully risen yet. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin that leaders at his organization are hoping to see some of the Obama administration rules rolled back.
February 13, 2017 -
Comments were due last week on a Defense Department rule concerning government use of unclassified contractor information. It may have been mistletoe and egg-nog time, but that didn't prevent the Professional Services Council from weighing in. Alan Chvotkin, PSC's executive vice president and counsel, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
January 03, 2017 -
Congress is getting ready to vote on a defense authorization bill for 2017. The conference report, seeking to reconcile the Senate and House versions, has lots of stuff of interest to contractors. Alan Chvotkin, counsel and executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
December 05, 2016 -
Results of more than 300 interviews of federal technology and acquisition experts for the Professional Services Council’s 2016 Vision conference predicts little new spending, but a lot of moving around of existing money.
November 16, 2016 -
Professional Services Council Executive Vice President and Counsel Alan Chvotkin joins host Mark Amtower to discuss category management, the latest continuing resolution, and other issues affecting professional services contractors. October 24, 2016
October 23, 2016 -
Strategic sourcing is the government's strategy for trying to buy commodities as a single entity. Industry, and especially small business and services contractors, have been wary of the initiative. Now the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council has issued a new rule for contracting officers and that's also got industry concerned. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel of the Professional Services Council, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what's going on.
August 31, 2016 -
The General Services Administration issued the final rule around data transaction reporting requiring vendors under the schedules contracts and governmentwide acquisition contracts to provide more detailed information about what agencies are buying.
June 23, 2016 -
GSA’s successes with downplaying price as an evaluation factor in picking contractors for large multiple-award contracts has spurred a broader look at this concept.
June 13, 2016 -
Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, and Brenda Farrell, director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues at the GAO, join Pentagon Solutions.
May 09, 2016 -
Tucked into the National Defense Authorization bill for 2017 were two provisions that would change contract protests and not in a way favorable industry. The Professional Services Council had asked House Armed Services Committee leaders to drop them. PSC Executive Vice President Alan Chvotkin joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what's in the bill.
May 05, 2016 -
The military services are slowly, but surely adopting a new instruction to better services procurement. Meanwhile, DoD may have found a better way to collaborate with small business.
April 25, 2016