Professional Services Council
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The Obama administration is backing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order for evening the playing field among government contractors, but some federal contracting experts say the policy will do more harm than good.
August 26, 2016 -
The General Services Administration issued the final rule around data transaction reporting requiring vendors under the schedules contracts and governmentwide acquisition contracts to provide more detailed information about what agencies are buying.
June 23, 2016 -
GSA’s successes with downplaying price as an evaluation factor in picking contractors for large multiple-award contracts has spurred a broader look at this concept.
June 13, 2016 -
The acquisition shop at the Veterans Affairs Department released 10 guiding principles to better buy products and services. While vendors are relatively optimistic about the VA's new approach, they're concerned whether contracting officers in the field are embracing those principles.
June 02, 2016 -
Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, and Brenda Farrell, director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues at the GAO, join Pentagon Solutions.
May 09, 2016 -
Tucked into the National Defense Authorization bill for 2017 were two provisions that would change contract protests and not in a way favorable industry. The Professional Services Council had asked House Armed Services Committee leaders to drop them. PSC Executive Vice President Alan Chvotkin joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what's in the bill.
May 05, 2016 -
The Professional Services Council and IT Alliance for Public Sector say lowest price technically acceptable is the wrong process to use when evaluating ENCORE III bidders.
May 02, 2016 -
The military services are slowly, but surely adopting a new instruction to better services procurement. Meanwhile, DoD may have found a better way to collaborate with small business.
April 25, 2016 -
The Professional Services Council, which represents hundreds of companies that do business with the federal government, named David Berteau as its next CEO.
March 02, 2016 -
David Berteau, the assistant secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness, will join the industry association on March 28 as its next CEO, replacing Stan Soloway who left in the fall.
March 01, 2016 -
A new rule stemming from the 2015 Defense authorization act would disallow reimbursing contractors for costs when they're called into Congress for investigations. This is not just for DoD agencies. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on this rule and its likely impact.
February 25, 2016 -
Like the line in the famous Joni Mitchell song, Stan Soloway, former Pentagon procurement chief, has seen life from both sides now, or at least federal acquisition. Soloway recently stepped down after 15 years as CEO of the Professional Services Council, a trade group representing hundreds of defense contractors. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss why the Defense Department and everyone connected to it is wondering what happens next.
February 17, 2016 -
Stan Soloway, former president of the Professional Services Council, joins host Mark Amtower to discuss the state of professional services contracting, the Defense Authorization bill, the 1102 workforce and more. February 15, 2016
February 11, 2016 -
Cloud, cybersecurity and agile development —those are what federal chief information officers and their staffs will be dealing with in 2016. But all three fronts are changing. The Professional Services Council recently completed research interviews on the 2016 federal IT trends. Heading the effort was Kim Pack, the vice president of business capture specialists Wolf Den Associates. She told Federal Drive with Tom Temin how the whole forecast is put together.
January 07, 2016 -
If cloud computing is so great, how come federal agencies don't do more of it? The White House has been pushing cloud for nearly a decade. Turns out, CIOs still face a lot of challenges to cloud usage. The Professional Services Council, in a new report, spells them out together with some advice and examples of cloud success. Federal Drive with Tom Temin discussed all of this with the PSC's Executive Vice President Dave Wennergren.
December 17, 2015