Joseph Petrillo
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After brewing for more than a year, the rules for the Defense Department's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification are out. The industry is coming to grips with this new requirement.
October 22, 2020 -
When it comes to buying cloud services, when you mix large companies, it seems there's always a protest. As is the case in an acquisition by the Library of Congress.
September 30, 2020 -
Sometimes the Federal Acquisition Regulation calls for meaningful discussions between government and would-be contractors. The lack thereof can result in issues like the one the Navy and one of its suppliers are having.
September 23, 2020 -
The acquisition regulations have a lot to say about when it's okay or not okay to specify brand names in solicitations. Two recent protest cases illustrate the point.
September 16, 2020 -
A major federal new procurement rule that applies to the Defense Department and NASA has sprung up, but it could soon come to all agencies.
August 06, 2020 -
A recent case showed why/when an agency is dividing work between unrestricted contractors and small businesses the latter might want to bid on both sides.
July 08, 2020 -
Contractors often face a dilemma. Anticipate unforeseen costs in a government project with a padded bid, or include a cost-shifting contingency in their bid.
June 25, 2020 -
The big services contractors didn't get that way by giving up on small awards.
June 11, 2020 -
With contractor lessons learned from a past virus threat, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell.
May 21, 2020 -
The Army got into trouble with an important cybersecurity contract when it made a classic mistake of not awarding it on the basis it said it would.
April 30, 2020 -
Contracting is a big part of the federal response to the pandemic. So don't expect protests to stop.
April 09, 2020 -
The JEDI Cloud drama hit intermission last month when a federal judge issued an injunction, stopping work DoD had started with winning bidder Microsoft.
March 12, 2020 -
An old lesson had a new airing when a contractor challenged the set-up of a blanket purchasing agreement.
February 27, 2020 -
Congress had so many small adjustments to procurement in its 2020 Defense Authorization bill, it ran out of 800 series digits.
February 06, 2020 -
The Navy got a lesson in procurement when it set out to buy weapons with scopes for use by special forces.
January 09, 2020