General Services Administration
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Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron to discuss category management initiatives coming out of the Office of Management and Budget and the keys to reorganizing procurement operations across GSA. May 10, 2016
May 16, 2016 -
The continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program is relying on a blanket purchase agreement approach that isn’t as flexible as DHS and GSA officials thought it would be.
May 16, 2016 -
The General Services Administration inspector general issued a management alert saying the 18F organization didn’t follow agency policy and may have caused a cyber breach.
May 13, 2016 The General Services Administration is creating a new service to host its high-tech offerings. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin if the new organization is step up for those GSA functions, or will another layer of bureaucracy bog them down?
May 09, 2016-
USDA officials open the VegUcation tent at the first farmers market of the season in Washington, D.C. The tent offers 10-minute lessons on how to pick, prepare and store seasonal fruits and vegetables.
May 09, 2016 -
This week, Administrator Denise Turner Roth announced the creation of a third service, the Technology Transformation Service (TTS), joining GSA’s other two services.
May 06, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget released a new memo May 4 formalizing existing initiatives and creating new efforts to help agencies move to shared services more easily.
May 04, 2016 -
GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth announced May 3 the creation of the Technology Transformation Service, which brings together 18F, the Presidential Innovation Fellows program and the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT).
May 03, 2016 -
Reps. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) and Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), chairman and ranking member of the Small Business Committee respectively, wrote a letter to GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth in early April asking for more details on how GSA is ensuring category management doesn’t impact small businesses.
May 02, 2016 -
Steve Grewal joined the General Services Administration as its new deputy chief information officer after spending the last four years at the Education Department.
May 02, 2016 Megan Schmith, director, Enterprise Application Development & Platform Strategy at the General Services Administration, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how mobile and cloud computing are saving money for federal agencies. April 26, 2016
April 25, 2016-
The General Services Administration has been asking industry for comments on the price reduction clause. Contractors, you better drop what you're doing and respond. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, has more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 25, 2016 -
The DATA Act will usher in a new way of reporting federal spending information, but information systems officials say it's also time to revisit job descriptions for data experts.
April 21, 2016 -
The House Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee questioned executives from Customs and Border Protection, the General Services Administration and the National Treasury Employees Union about the current status of and challenges to CBP’s hiring, retention and infrastructure.
April 20, 2016 -
Senior officials with the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget say the answer of whether or not the May 2017 full roll-out of the DATA Act is more complicated than a simple yes or no.
April 19, 2016