Alan Thomas

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…

Reporter's Notebook

Key procurement trends at GSA

Off the Shelf

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How the nation’s premier cybersecurity agency can handle its new procurement authority

Acquisition

House shows love for some IT modernization funds, but not all of them

IT Modernization

Key trends in IT GWACs & eCommerce

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First Look

GSA shuffles senior leaders’ chairs in Federal Acquisition Service

Acquisition

Greater transparency will ensure the TMF endures

Commentary

A look at JEDI procurement

Off the Shelf

JEDI is dead, but danger is still ahead: How to get better cloud capabilities in less time, with less risk

Commentary

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo the General Services Administration building is seen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. An agency little known outside Washington, the General Services Administration, has held off on recognizing President-elect Joe Biden as the president-elect, denying him access to the money, offices and machinery routinely afforded to the incoming team. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

GSA claims success of TDR pilot, but industry experts not sold

Reporter's Notebook

The state of interagency contracting

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The General Services Administration (GSA) building is seen, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington. General Service Administrator Emily Murphy, the head of the obscure federal government agency that is holding up Joe Biden's presidential transition, appeared to know she might be facing a messy situation after the votes came in. Prior to Nov. 3, Emily Murphy, the head of the General Services Administration, held a Zoom call with Dave Barram, 77, a man who was in her shoes 20 years earlier during the contested 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Barram said he advised her to

GSA kicks off two-year effort to innovate service contracting beyond OASIS

The General Services Administration released a request for information to gather feedback on its new services contract called BIC MAC—Best-in-Class Multiple…

Reporter's Notebook

Hit the ground running: Three acquisition ideas for 2021

Alan Thomas, the former commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration and now chief operating officer at IntelliBridge,…

Commentary

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Special Report: Benefits of Technology Modernization Fund validated

Reporter's Notebook

New data collected by Federal News Network demonstrates that the agencies which took loans are moving faster, modernizing legacy systems and — hold on to your hats — paying back the loan to the TMF Board.