FAS outlined three goals of the Services Marketplace initiative, while setting forth a series of efforts to achieve the goals. Chief among them are rationalizing, aligning, and expanding GSA’s GWAC, Multiple Award Contract, and MAS service contract offerings.
Multiple vendors as well as consultants, lawyers and a major GSA-focused trade association representing hundreds of schedule holders say the pendulum has swung too far in how the Federal Acquisition Service is requiring vendors to renegotiate prices.
Laura Stanton, Keith Nakasone and Allen Hill, members of the IT category leadership team at the General Services Administration, join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss cloud computing, eCommerce and GSA's IT procurement and management programs.
This week on Off the Shelf, Baker Tilly's Jeff Clayton join host Roger Waldron to discuss what the current regulatory push in the federal government means for federal contractors.
Jeff Koses, senior procurement executive at General Services Administration, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to talk about policies and programs currently impacting federal procurement.
NASA SEWP Program Director Joanne Woytek joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to recap the GWACs performance in fiscal year 2020 and how well it did in supporting the IT needs of federal agencies.
Steve Schooner, Nash & Cibinic professor of Government Procurement Law at the George Washington University Law School, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss why the acquisition workforce should embrace sustainable procurement as a cost effective, long term investment for government.
Tim Cook, executive director of the Center for Procurement Advocacy and Tom Sisti, general counsel for the Coalition for Government Procurement, join host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf for a wide ranging discussion that includes the congressional outlook of the National Defense Authorization Act, and whether Congress will pass an additional Covid-19 relief package.
Jon Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss the key policy provisions of the NDAA, and the current implementation of Section 889 and CMMC.
This week on Off the Shelf, Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller talks about the state of the federal market and the top procurement developments in the new fiscal year.
The General Services Administration's Schedules Consolidation initiative continues apace, with the agency and its contractors implementing Phase 3, the consolidation of multiple schedule contracts into a single contract for those impacted contractors.
This week marked the Autumnal Equinox, and change is in the air. It also signals that we are approaching the end of the government fiscal year.
This week on Off the Shelf, Booz Allen's Jen Wagner, Aimee George Leary, and Andrea Inserra join host Roger Waldron to discuss the firm's response to Covid-19 and how the company is addressing the needs of diverse clients in today's environment.
Oracle and Mythics win a bid protest at the Library of Congress while AT&T comes out on top in its complaint against SSA. Both protests show the agencies made basic mistakes in evaluating bids on large-dollar solicitations.
This August, GSA took two significant, interconnected steps towards increasing competition and access to the commercial market through its government-wide contract vehicles.