General Services Administration
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Half of federal agencies earned a failing grade from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on their use of incremental development, as part of their implementation of FITARA. But agencies are still learning how to navigate an often confusing field of agile.
November 06, 2015 -
Protesting the cancellation of a solicitation after a protest caused a cancellation is the latest wrinkle in the government contracting protest space. The General Services Administration is at the heart of this case. Bill Welch, a partner at the law firm McMahon Welch and Learned, told In Depth with Francis Rose that GSA got a kick in the pants from the Government Accountability Office.
November 05, 2015 -
The associate administrator in the Office of Governmentwide Policy and acting chief of staff will become the new federal chief sustainability officer.
November 04, 2015 -
Jason Workmaster, off counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the state of commercial item contracting. November 3, 2015
November 03, 2015 -
Mark Day, the General Services Administration’s deputy assistant commissioner in the Integrated Technology Services office in the Federal Acquisition Service, and Kathleen Turco, the chief financial officer for the Veterans Health Administration, are among a growing wave of longtime federal employees retiring.
November 02, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget released its annual guidance for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) reporting and the cybersecurity strategy and implementation plan (CSIP) for civilian agencies. Both of these documents are part of the broader change happening across government to improve cybersecurity.
November 02, 2015 -
The General Services Administration's new push to consolidate services contracts comes about because of another governmentwide contracting initiative. Federal News Radio reports GSA will try to consolidate many expiring services contracts into a few multiple-award contracts. Tiffany Hixson is commissioner for Region 10 in GSA's Federal Acquisition Service and she oversees all of GSA's governmentwide professional support service schedule contracts like the Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services contract known as MOBIS. She told In Depth with Francis Rose the effort to remake the services contracts started within GSA and another big contracting initiative is driving it.
October 30, 2015 -
Casey Kelley, John Cavadias and Richard Blake, members of GSA's Alliant 2 management team will discuss the program's overall acquisition strategy and goals. October 27, 2015
October 29, 2015 -
Members of GSA's Alliant team, Casey Kelley, Richard Blake and John Cavadias, join host Mark Amtower to discuss the upcoming Alliant 2 contract. October 26, 2015
October 27, 2015 -
The Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards has named Anne Rung as the Public Service Partner of the Year.
October 27, 2015 -
The Unified Shared Service Management team is trying to carry out the government's vision of shared services. When experts talk about this stuff, two themes come up again and again: execution and enforceability. Dave McClure, chief strategist at the Veris Group, used to lead the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at the General Services Administration. He discusses the challenges of shared services on In Depth with Francis Rose.
October 27, 2015 -
The General Services Administration has released its next-generation telecommunications solicitation. The Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions RFP could produce contracts worth $50 billion over 15 years, and will replace the current Networx contract by 2020. Diana Gowen is a principal at Deep Water Point Consulting and a veteran of the federal telecom battles. She joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on EIS.
October 26, 2015 -
Tens of millions of dollars in agency-by-agency service contracts are due to expire next year. GSA hopes to transition a large proportion of the spending into governmentwide vehicles such as OASIS and the GSA schedules.
October 23, 2015 -
Data problems continue to haunt the Obama administration's efforts to tame the government's property portfolio. But they are not the same problems of yesteryear.
October 22, 2015 -
Federal technology managers are going to Silicon Valley to look for experts who can help agencies catch up in the digital realm. Anyone who's looked at a federal website recently knows the need is there. But government work is no easy sell. Joe Castle recently found that out. He's putting together the new digital-services team at the General Services Administration. He tells Federal News Radio’s Emily Kopp he needs to hire just seven people.
October 20, 2015