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Election uncertainty doesn’t slow an ambitious regulation agenda

An ambitious agenda for regulation means contractors could see a slew of new and interim regulations in the next few months.

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A troubling small business trend is getting worse

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Why there’s not a huge cause for optimism for the rest of the federal budget year

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Contract spending is set to grow across the board in 2024

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Contractors make plans for a messy start to the next fiscal year

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How federal acquisitions will help recovery in Maui

Advance contracts and GSA contracts for state and local governments, are a couple of the avenues by which the federal government and its acquisition…

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FILE - An American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Nov. 2, 2020. The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a challenge to the consideration of race in college admission decisions, often known as affirmative action. The justices are taking up a pair of lawsuits alleging that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina discriminate against Asian American applicants. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

That Supreme Court affirmative action decision is already affecting federal contracting

When the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action as practiced by Harvard University, it set off a tsunami. One of those giant waves is already washing…

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Empty federal offices are bad for the economy

Thanks to that extensive survey by the Government Accountability Office, we know just how empty federal offices really are. None of them is more than half full. That fact has depressed the market for certain commodities a lot of vendors counted on each year as a kind of annuity.

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