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Looking ahead to the no-surprise, likely-late 2025 federal spending bills

It is budget season on Capitol Hill and agency leaders are busy defending their 2025 spending plans in front of the appropriations committees.

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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

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Is GSA’s Alliant 3 vehicle tilted too much to small, very large contractors?

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Busy federal fourth quarter to bleed into just as crazy first quarter of 2024

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The federal procurement elephant can dance

Features of two emerging governmentwide acquisition contracts demonstrate small but important innovation.

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Top contracting issues in FY 2023

Allen Federal Business Partners President Larry Allen joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center for a wide ranging discussion of how inflation,…

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82 agencies sign MOUs to gain more time to transition to EIS

The General Services Administration says 20 CFO Act, 11 large or medium and 51 small agencies have until May 31, 2024, to complete the transition to EIS.

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