General Services Administration
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The six-year closure of Schedule 75 is impacting long-standing GSA industry partners whose contracts are expiring with no opportunity to submit a new offer to maintain contract coverage.
March 10, 2017 -
The General Services Administration is loaning out Norman Dong, commissioner of the Public Buildings Service (PBS), to the private sector. Dong's departure leaves a vacancy in GSA's top leadership, as the agency works to plan a new FBI headquarters and answer questions regarding conflicts of interest around the Trump International Hotel.
March 09, 2017 -
Small businesses growing more worried about the impact of category management on their opportunities to compete for contracts. OFPP required each category manager to submit a plan for how they will address those concerns.
March 06, 2017 -
The Defense Department mandated the use of a services acquisition workshop in 2012 for all procurements worth more than $1 billion. The success of the effort is leading other agencies to use it.
March 06, 2017 -
The Coalition for Government Procurement says its imperative to reform GSA's Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) program.
March 03, 2017 -
The House Homeland Security Committee and the House and Senate intelligence committees are going to prioritize oversight of how agencies hire and train their workforces to deal with cybersecurity.
February 27, 2017 -
Rob Cook, the commissioner of Technology Transformation Service, said most, if not all, of the six recommendations GSA’s inspector general made in the recent critical report on the digital services organization were implemented.
February 22, 2017 -
Aaron Snow’s term at GSA is coming to an end and he announced plans to move to the private sector on Feb. 28.
February 22, 2017 -
The White House's chief digital officer stepped down after only a month on the job. Sources familiar with the departure say Gerrit Lansing did not want to give up his ties to an online donation platform he helped start.
February 22, 2017 -
The General Services Administration’s Inspector General found the digital services group used unapproved software, put applications on the network without the proper authorizations and had an overall lack of management oversight or involvement that let 18F staff members basically do what they want.
February 21, 2017 -
The General Services Administration released a request for information asking for input from the data community for other potential ways to validate and verify vendors.
February 21, 2017 -
Federal real property management for another year is included on the Government Accountability Office's High-Risk List. Auditors say the government's excess properties, reliance on leasing, and facilities security are challenges it must face to get off the list.
February 21, 2017 -
Federal contractors can be forgiven if they're a little unsure of what to do over the next year. Between President Trump's tweets about major defense contractors and uncertainty over future General Services Administration policy, conditions are bit dicey at the moment. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, offers his take on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
February 20, 2017 -
The General Services Administration and schedule contractors continue debating the implementation of the Transactional Data Rule.
February 13, 2017 -
The General Services Administration has put together five working groups in a new cloud center of excellence to address acquisition, value and training challenges around cloud computing.
February 13, 2017