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Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council David Berteau for some insight.
So far in the big stimulus bill, contractors got an extension of section 3610, which gives them a sort of ongoing protection from the pandemic.
Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are pressing Senate leadership to extend 3610 authorities through Sept. 30.
A form of contracting known as lowest-price technically acceptable, or LPTA, has long bugged federal contractors.
Contractors are looking to see who will fill crucial sub-cabinet appointment slots. The latest from Professional Services Council president and CEO David Berteau.
The Biden Administration has underscored a Buy American policy for federal procurement. It establishes an overseer at the Office of Management and Budget and clamps down on content in what agencies buy.
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?
Missing the guardrails by inches, the nation's careening political apparatus has managed to fund the government for fiscal 2021.
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.
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.
The controversial White House directive banning what the Trump administration thinks is divisive diversity training - it applies to federal contractors, too.
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.
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.
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.