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Two weeks into the continuing resolution agencies hoping to start new initiatives are now looking towards December 16. That's when Congress promised to establish a 2023 budget. History shows that's a pretty thin read to lean on.
Congress is currently flirting with the possibility of a government shutdown, as well as the potential year long continuing resolution no one wants, not to mention the fact that inflation is making it harder to conduct business and getting permission to increase prices remains difficult.
Federal agencies are moving into the spend it or lose it stage of the fiscal year with just two weeks to go.
.Just a month remains in the fiscal year. And now contractors are working overtime to make those numbers. But now's not the time to make mistakes that could cost you future business or draw a protest.
Federal contracting expert Larry Allen says that's fine in principle, but the whole idea rests on the notion that agencies have high quality data to support their programs.
The AGILE Procurement Act in the Senate intends to make it easier for the government to buy commercial goods and services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.