Lesley Field

Taking a look at OFPP’s ‘EPIC’ campaign

The Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration are turning to online crowdsourcing to help make the federal procurement process…

Contracting

Labor Department brings new acquisition oversight amid OFPP limbo

Contracting

rules and regulations marked on rubber stamp

Frictionless federal acquisition? It’s possible and a new online tool can help

Reporter's Notebook

HHS, Navy, seek to stay one step ahead of tech trends through agile acquisition

Acquisition

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Why contractor past performance data is becoming both more, less valuable

Reporter's Notebook

Acting OFPP Administrator Lesley Field

OFPP outlines 10 acquisition innovations agencies can use today

Acquisition Policy

OFPP administrator, where art thou?

Reporter's Notebook

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7 ways to make category management more responsive to small businesses

Reporter's Notebook

Exclusive

New OFPP strategy targets 13 percent reduction of duplicative contracts by 2020

Reporter's Notebook

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OFPP drafts memo to replace category management circular

Reporter's Notebook

Stymied by risk, costs, shared services office crafts 4 ‘as-a-service’ approaches

Reporter's Notebook

OMB memo count: 31 over last 12 months, including 2 new ones

The Office of Management and Budget issued two more memos, focusing on personal data breach response requirements and industry and vendor communications.

Reporter's Notebook

Contractor ethics rules too reactive, compliance focused, experts say

Improving acquisition compliance and ethics may involve less rulemaking and more culture shaping according to panelists at the National Contract Management…

Defense

Inside the Reporter’s Notebook: Category management launches five pilots; more vendor past performance data

Defense

In this edition of Inside the Reporter’s Notebook, Executive Editor Jason Miller shares news and buzz about the IT and acquisition communities.