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Acquisition Policy

State Dept transforming procurement with category management, streamlined processes
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State wants teams of procurement specialists who not only know the contracting process, but also have deep insights into their respective markets.

Acquisition

OFPP’s acquisition workforce modernization effort to kick into gear in 2024

Ask the CIO

Agencies buying more professional services than ever before

Reporter's Notebook

Commerce’s CATTS small business contract is having the opposite of its intended effect

Off the Shelf

The shrinking industrial base

Contracts/Awards

Contraction of small business contractors: What’s prompting the drop?

Commentary

Making best-in-class contracts better for innovation

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Off the Shelf

IT procurement and management at GSA

FILE - This March 27, 2008 file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. The civilian official overseeing the Pentagon's campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in the Middle East has resigned in the latest jolt to Pentagon leadership in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Reporter's Notebook

Policy winners and losers in the Defense authorization bill

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Reporter's Notebook

First Look Acquisition council lays out plan to coordinate, expand supply chain security

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Off the Shelf

An inside look at federal acquisition

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Amtower Off-Center

GWACs, BICs, & Category Management: Where does Small Biz fit?

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Off the Shelf

The state of small business contracting

federal procurement

Acquisition Policy

OFPP’s Wooten pressing the levers to change the tools, rules, talent pools of federal procurement

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Amtower Off-Center

Navigating the changes in federal acquisition

Rebecca Weirick is the executive director of the Services Acquisition Office of in the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement.

Acquisition Policy

Army saved more than $1B through category management, and it’s just a start

Paul Perdew

Federal Drive

Army contracting command is working on its own version of category management

Air Force

Commentary

Air Force category management: Spend intelligently, not just by year’s end

Jaclyn Smyth, Federal Security and Protection Category Manager for the Department of Homeland Security, talks with attendees of the government-wide working dog team kick-off meeting April 16, 2019, at the Air Force Security Forces Center Headquarters on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Over three days, members of ten federal agencies toured Air Force and DoD Military Working Dog facilities and shared information about their working dog programs - including challenges and best practices - and identified collaboration opportunities.

Commentary

Air Force adds attitude to governmentwide category management

Walter Barnes, PM Consulting Group

Contracts/Awards

Price competition driving some vendors to think differently

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Off the Shelf

A deep dive into schedules modernization

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Amtower Off-Center

Big issues facing small contractors: Wrap up episode

government contracts

Reporter's Notebook

What does ‘best-in-class’ really mean for federal contracts?

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