Jeff Koses

One more step away from the acquisition regulation that most vendors hate

Jeff Koses, GSA’s senior procurement executive, issued a new memo after a request the Polaris program office to bring the Transactional Data Reporting…

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Transactional data reporting: Providing data needed to facilitate program management

Commentary

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GSA makes inflation adjustments a bit easier for contractors

Acquisition Policy

Procurement & the acquisition workforce

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Polaris, Services MAC will be the first governmentwide contracts without maximum dollar values

Reporter's Notebook

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GSA’s busy 2022 so far: Inflation, 876 and a new strategy

Reporter's Notebook

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The key issues impacting federal procurement

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FILE - This Sept. 18, 2019, file photo shows the view of the U.S. Capitol building from the Washington Monument in Washington. The federal government incurred the biggest monthly budget deficit in history in June 2020 as spending on programs to combat the coronavirus recession exploded while millions of job losses cut into tax revenues. The Treasury Department reported Monday, July 13, 2020 that the deficit hit $864 billion last month, an amount of red ink that surpasses most annual deficits in the nation’s history and is above the previous monthly deficit record of $738 billion in April.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Agencies achieving frictionless acquisition in variety of ways

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FILE - In this April 16, 2020, file photo, vials containing nasal swabs collected at a COVID-19 drive-through testing site are dropped into a plastic bag to be sent off for processing after being collected in St. Louis. An Associated Press review of more than 20 states found that before the coronavirus outbreak many had at least a modest supply of N95 masks, gowns, gloves and other medical equipment. But those supplies often were well past their expiration dates, left over from the H1N1 influenza outbreak a decade ago. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Emergency acquisitions group at center of GSA’s coronavirus response

Julie Dunne, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, in her first interview since becoming commissioner said a group of more experienced…

Acquisition

Director of Defense Pricing and Contracting Kim Herrington (DoD)

DoD, ODNI sign ‘permission slips’ to keep contractors viable through the pandemic

The Defense Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released memos late last week outlining how contractor officers can implement…

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Agencies initiate emergency acquisition authorities

Acquisition Policy

The Defense Department raised its threshold for 8(a) sole source contracts to $100 million as required by the 2020 Defense authorization bill. While not related to coronavirus outbreak, the timing is important.

Jeff Koses

One more step away from the acquisition regulation that most vendors hate

Transactional data reporting: Providing data needed to facilitate program management

GSA makes inflation adjustments a bit easier for contractors

Procurement & the acquisition workforce

Polaris, Services MAC will be the first governmentwide contracts without maximum dollar values

GSA’s busy 2022 so far: Inflation, 876 and a new strategy

GSA set to alter cloud buying landscape with new policy

GSA claims success of TDR pilot, but industry experts not sold

GSA, DHS making big push to address shortcomings in contractor assessments

The key issues impacting federal procurement

Agencies achieving frictionless acquisition in variety of ways

Emergency acquisitions group at center of GSA’s coronavirus response

DoD, ODNI sign ‘permission slips’ to keep contractors viable through the pandemic

Agencies initiate emergency acquisition authorities