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The AGILE Procurement Act in the Senate intends to make it easier for the government to buy commercial goods and services.
August 02, 2022 -
This first week in July, contractors are making the start of the fiscal quarter in which the government spends the biggest portion of available dollars.
July 06, 2022 -
The General Services Administration is still in the process of consolidating its Schedules program into a single procurement vehicle. And although it’s undoubtedly one of the biggest changes in the program’s history, there’s a lot else going on with the Schedules that vendors need to be paying attention to.
June 07, 2022 -
The fact that government spends more on services than it does on stuff isn’t exactly new. But even within that services portfolio, federal contracts are increasingly consolidated within a relative handful of market segments.
May 24, 2022 -
Forget about the idea of six degrees of separation. In the world of government contracting people are no more than a hopper two away from one another.
May 10, 2022 -
The 2022 fiscal year got compressed to six months. To help with their crucial acquisitions, many agencies have already turned to the General Services Administration. Staff at GSA's assisted acquisition services are busy, but it's not too late to get in.
April 26, 2022 -
The General Services Administration has dubbed a blanket purchasing agreement for cloud services with the name ASCEND. Is GSA rising to the occasion? Federal Drive with Tom Temin got one view from federal sales and marketing consultant, Larry Allen.
April 12, 2022 -
Contractors and their representatives report troubles with the Multiple Award Schedule system. The MAS is the long running and very popular system for delivering routine products to the government. The General Services Administration has operated the schedules for decades.
March 15, 2022 -
The inflation rate is at its highest since the 1990s and contractors are losing money and some may be thinking about leaving the federal industrial base altogether.
March 09, 2022 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf, to discuss the state of GSA’s major governmentwide contracting programs.
March 02, 2022 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joined host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion on the emergence of POLARIS, the issues around CIO-SP4 and the new GSA Services MAC.
February 25, 2022 -
Even if Congress agrees on a budget deal by March 11, that means 2022 money will arrive nearly halfway through the fiscal year.
February 15, 2022 -
On of the weirder federal IT developments of recent years is how slowly agencies are using a governmentwide telecom contract that's supposed to be mandatory. It's the Enterprise Information Solutions multiple-award program operated by the General Services Administration. For some facts and figures, and why this might be happening, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen.
February 01, 2022 -
For a federal contractor, the best motivation for a new year's resolution is a better shot at more work.
January 04, 2022 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, offers an inside look at some of the most unusual questions he’s received this year.
December 20, 2021