General Services Administration

In January, GAO released a report examining the current state of the non-pharmaceutical Federal Supply Schedules, and making 11 recommendations.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration is trying to make it easier to learn and ask questions about its relatively new beta.SAM.gov contract opportunities portal.

Among the group of clemencies President Trump granted yesterday were a former federal procurement chief and a one-time owner of a federal contractor.

The General Services Administration will also assume management over the Office of Personnel Management’s office space in Washington later this fall.

The General Services Administration says the number of help desk calls about the beta.sam.gov website is at or below the levels that came in for the old site. Some contractors, however, say the new site continues to struggle and remains frustrating to many.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the agency’s fiscal 2021 budget justification to Congress shows that agencies went from about 194 million square feet of leased space in 2014, to just under 183 million square feet projected in 2021.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the departments of Commerce, Defense, Transportation and Homeland Security are on the clock to figure out how best to secure the systems that support global positioning satellites and related critical infrastructure.

In today’s Federal Newscast, Senator Josh Hawley unveils a plan to give the Federal Trade Commission more authority to help regulate companies like Facebook and Google.

The General Services Administration replaced FedBizOpps with a system called Beta.Sam.gov but contractors are finding the new system isn’t much better.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Justice Department is challenging a New Jersey law enforcement policy D-O-J says obstructs federal immigration enforcement.