Call it reform, call it tinkering around the edges. Whatever you call it, Congress is always making adjustments to the rules around federal procurement.
The VA bought a generic medicine from a company selling New Jersey-made tablets containing an active ingredient from India.
Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell offered an update on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Affordable Care Act set up complicated relationships between health insurance providers and the Health and Human Services Department.
EFS EBrex Sarl, also knwon as EBrex, of Switzerland protested DLA after losing out to California-based Coastal Pacific Food Distributors Inc. for a food distribution contract.
Among the as-yet uncompleted tasks is a new rule to help stave off counterfeit electronic parts.
Joseph Petrillo is a procurement attorney from the Washington, D.C. firm of Petrillo and Powell PLLC.
The attorney discussed how a new timeline for agencies to respond to questions about contractor debriefings affect the protest process.
A new contracting clause from the General Service Administration has potentially big implications for anyone buying from the schedule vendors.
The winning bidder of a DoE contract ran into protests because of its novel approach to handling very dangerous material.
Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo outlines a case where one contracting company complains about multiple award contracts.
Federal procurement is more complicated than it has to be. Joseph Petrillo tells Federal Drive which procurement reforms would be most beneficial.
Attorney Joseph Petrillo explains why it's not necessarily easy to figure out whether you are a small business for purposes of federal contracting.
Even though the number of bid protests is on the rise, the absolute number of them represent only a tiny fraction of contracting activity.
Sometimes it's easy to forget the government can terminate any contract at any time for convenience.