Category management

GSA’s Symphony tool is music to vendors, agency customers’ ears

Tiffany Hixson, the assistant commissioner for the Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories in the General Services Administration’s…

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Commerce’s CATTS procurement exemplifies all that’s wrong with federal small business contracting

Reporter's Notebook

The shrinking industrial base

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

Contracts/Awards

Making best-in-class contracts better for innovation

Commentary

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IT procurement and management at GSA

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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)

Policy winners and losers in the Defense authorization bill

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First Look

How the Federal Acquisition Security Council will tackle supply chain risk management

Reporter's Notebook

An inside look at federal acquisition

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

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The state of small business contracting

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

Dr. Michael Wooten, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said he is preparing the workforce for a future where robotics process…

Acquisition Policy

Navigating the changes in federal acquisition

This week on Amtower Off Center, Joshua Frank, managing partner of RSM Federal joins host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion of consolidated schedules,…

Amtower Off-Center

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

Acquisition Policy

Rebecca Weirick, the executive director of the Services Acquisition Office of in the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement, said category management helped the service save almost 10% on contracts that was put toward readiness and modernization in 2019.