GWAC

Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center to discuss the impact of Covid 19 on the government contracting market.

The General Services Administration’s 2GIT $5.5 billion IT services contract is facing its 13th bid protest while its Alliant 2 Small Business contract remains in limbo more than two years after making initial awards.

Vendors say they received little notice from GSA ahead of the 8(a) STARS II governmentwide contract reaching its contract ceiling in early April and this forced them and their agency customers to look for new procurement vehicles.

Deltek Senior Vice President Kevin Plexico and Bob Lohfeld, CEO of Lohfeld Consulting Group join host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion of the growth of GWACs over the last five years, best in class contracts, category management and the impact of GWACs and IDIQs on small businesses.

GSA’s Tom Howder’s career started when his agency was stingy with delegations of procurement authority under the Brooks Act.

Soraya Correa, chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security, joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off he Shelf to discuss DHS procurement, including how the agency’s strategic investments in acquisition workforce training and development are delivering best value mission support across the department.

GSA Administrator Emily Murphy joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf to discuss MAS consolidation, catalog management and other cornerstone initiatives of her agency’s Federal Marketplace Strategy.

The General Services Administration launched a robotics process automation community of practice to collect and share best practices across government.

GSA rescinded awards to 81 small businesses after a Court of Federal Claims decision showed the agency erred in its evaluations of proposals.

NASA SEWP Program Manager Joanne Woytek and Marcus Fedeli, sales manager for Red River, join host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center, to discuss the growing popularity of SEWP and how it manages both its vendor and federal customer relationships.