Larry Allen

The General Services Administration, in response to the pandemic, has opened up the multiple award schedule contracts to state and local governments.

Contractors may not all be aware of the Defense Department’s new adaptive acquisition framework. But they should be.

Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to federal marketing and sales consultant Larry Allen for more details on what it means for contractors.

The General Services Administration’s senior procurement executive Jeff Koses sent to industry for comments a draft acquisition letter detailing how buying consumption based cloud services could work.

Pitch days are growing in popularity. They often go with the use of non-traditional acquisition techniques.

It gives more authority over bigger acquisitions to the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment, and takes it away from the armed services.

At least in time for the calendar 2020, but not fiscal 2020, Congress and the White House established a budget. So it’s a better start to the new year than least year’s dismal shutdown.

With some of the latest ironies, federal marketing and procurement consultant Larry Allen joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Congress is still unable to create long term spending packages. Meanwhile there’s some new rules for them to follow in order to do business with the government.

The last couple of weeks have been busy on the federal acquisition front. Federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen had more insights.