David Berteau
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The government couldn't function for very long without contractors. Does that mean contractor employees, or at least certain ones, ought to be eligible for COVID vaccines?
January 12, 2021 -
Missing the guardrails by inches, the nation's careening political apparatus has managed to fund the government for fiscal 2021.
December 29, 2020 -
Federal contractors are bracing for radical changes in policy and the threat of a short-term government shutdown as they look forward the coming transition.
December 01, 2020 -
The election outcome will have big consequences for nearly every segment of the economy, including federal contractors and the rules they and the government operate under.
November 03, 2020 -
The controversial White House directive banning what the Trump administration thinks is divisive diversity training - it applies to federal contractors, too.
October 06, 2020 -
The pace of end-of-fiscal-year spending is off for a variety of reasons. Among them some unresolved policy questions related to national security and the federal supply chain.
September 09, 2020 -
President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management is accused of 'lacking commitment to federal merit system," one of D.C.'s industry experts is leaving his high-profile post, and a congressional committee is launching an investigation into recent tragedies at Ft. Hood.
September 09, 2020 -
Alan Chvotkin, the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, helped grow the association over the last two decades as agencies spent more on services than products.
September 08, 2020 -
Companies filing for reimbursements under $2 million may get streamlined service.
August 14, 2020 -
You can forgive federal contractors for a little confusion. There's a new White House executive order on use of immigrant labor.
August 11, 2020 -
For the second year, members of the Professional Services Council have scored the quality of agency procurement forecasts according to a list of attributes.
July 14, 2020 -
The escalating dispute between the U.S. and China over Chinese telecom giant Huawei has contractors wondering about telecom policy generally.
June 16, 2020 -
The $3 trillion proposal the House narrowly passed last week has proposals in it that will impact federal contractors.
May 19, 2020 -
It looks as if there is solid commitment on the part of the government to ensure contractor employees, who can't get on premises to do their work, to get paid leave.
April 21, 2020 -
It's taken a couple of weeks, but the White House and various agencies have more or less come up with policies for contractors trying to support the government during the virus crisis.
March 24, 2020