General Services Administration
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Within the omnibus spending package is a directive for agencies that states their consolidation plans will get preference for funding if they include shrinking office space to 130 square feet of usable space per person.
December 21, 2015 Jason McNutt and Chris Miller with Applied Information Sciences, join host John Gilroy to discuss some of the objectives of the General Services Administration's 18F program and the concepts behind this innovation. December 22, 2015
December 17, 2015-
The omnibus spending bill includes money for the FBI’s new headquarters, 10 years of credit monitoring services for OPM breach victims and much more for federal employees.
December 17, 2015 -
Tom Sisti, senior director and chief legislative counsel for SAP, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss current acquisition reform efforts, including reform provisions in the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act. December 1, 2015
December 16, 2015 Cristina Miller and Adam Horvath with Acumen Solutions join host John Gilroy to discuss how their company can help federal agencies with their transition to the cloud. December 15, 2015
December 14, 2015-
Tom Sharpe, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, said over the summer the General Services Administration would make access to the e-Buy tool available to the public. Two weeks before the end of the year, the transparency effort continues to hit roadblocks.
December 14, 2015 -
The latest task order under the continuous diagnostic and mitigation (CDM) program would bring continuous monitoring-as-a-service (CMaaS) to 41 small and micro agencies.
December 07, 2015 -
David Shea, director of the Office of Charge Card Management at the General Services Administration joins host Mark Amtower to discuss all aspects of the federal SmartPay program. November 23, 2015
November 23, 2015 -
Agencies and industry have a few more days to tell the General Services Administration what they think about the next, big governmentwide acquisition contract. GSA is accepting a second round of comments on the $50 billion Alliant 2 GWAC. Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller spoke with the trio of GSA executives running the contract — Casey Kelley, Richard Blake and John Cavadias on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. They discussed the program and how it'll be different than the current Alliant GWAC. First, we hear from Cavadias, the senior contracting officer in the Enterprise Acquisition Division of the Federal Acquisition Service.
November 23, 2015 -
For federal agencies, good customer service requires lots of attention to details, technology and process. Agencies also need an understanding of what citizens are seeking. That's according to Martha Dorris, the General Services Administration's former director of Strategic Programs. Dorris retired from the government a few weeks ago, after 34 years. An expert in customer service, she's still at it with a new consulting gig. She filled in Federal Drive with Tom Temin with all the details.
November 20, 2015 -
The Federal Acquisition Regulations Council issued a proposed rule asking for input on how to move the government away from using the proprietary standard or number for uniquely identifying entities receiving federal awards provided for decades by Dun & Bradstreet.
November 19, 2015 -
Jeff Press, from the Commerce Department, and Billy Milton, from the Agriculture Department, joined a growing list of federal executives moving on from government service.
November 16, 2015 -
Kshemendra Paul, the program manager of the Information Sharing Environment, said the organization’s annual report to Congress demonstrates a maturing and sustainable set of frameworks and policies.
November 12, 2015 -
GSA, Treasury and Transportation highlighted to House lawmakers progress each has made in improving their individual processes for managing and overseeing networks, systems and data under the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
November 09, 2015 -
A new round of communication between industry and government is coming from the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration. It's a follow-on to the Mythbusters campaign that began in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy several years ago. Anne Rung is administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and winner of this year's Gov Con Award for Public Sector Partner of the Year. She told In Depth with Francis Rose about the latest efforts to connect with industry.
November 06, 2015