Professional Services Council
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A panel of experts said contractors should prepare for a potential government shutdown by figuring out how their specific contracts would be affected in such a scenario. Step one, they said, is for vendors to talk with their agency contracting officers.
February 24, 2011 -
A directive signed this week by the secretary of the Army requires high-level review and analysis of any proposal to insource contracting functions. Outside groups have accused DoD of insourcing workers based on arbitrary quotas.
February 04, 2011 -
Professional Services Council\'s Stan Soloway explains how a government reorganization - called for in the State of the Union - could affect the federal contracting community.
January 27, 2011 -
The Professional Services Council\'s Stan Soloway explains on the Defense Department rule.
January 05, 2011 -
In a meeting with members of Congress and industry association leaders this week, DoD officials said proposed cuts to Defense contracting will only impact a small subset of the department\'s service contracting budget. DoD officials said they are looking at contracts that support staff augmentation and other similar support service contracts.
December 23, 2010 -
Dan Chenok of the IBM Center for the Business of Government and Alan Chvotkin of the Professional Services Council join Francis Rose to count down the top federal news stories of the week.
December 10, 2010 -
Professional Services Council\'s Stan Soloway discusses how the new deficit commission plan will affect the contracting community.
December 02, 2010 -
Acquisition oversight by agency inspectors general, the Government Accountability Office and Congress have muted a lot of the innovation by contracting officers. A new survey by the Professional Services Council and Grant Thornton finds most…
November 15, 2010 -
The Federal News Countdown welcomed Tim McManus of Partnership for Public Service and Stan Soloway of Professional Services Council.
November 05, 2010 -
What industry really thinks about the Pentagon\'s cost cutting plan from Stan Soloway of the Professional Services Council
September 17, 2010 -
Do top officials know exactly how many people work under top-secret titles and what they do? We\'ll hear from the president of Professional Services Council.
July 20, 2010 -
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The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is recommending all agencies use only the definition of inherently governmental as defined in the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act, and create a test to determine whether other jobs should be done only by federal employees. OFPP\'s Dan Gordon has details.
June 15, 2010 -
The Professional Services Council is concerned that agencies could misinterpreted the policy letter as a mandate to insource. PSC\'s Alan Chvotkin explains why.
June 10, 2010 -
Congressional staff members call the current MAC environment \"chaos.\" The administration will decide in a matter of weeks whether NIH should continue to run its CIO-SP3 governmentwide contract. OFPP administrator Gordon says several broad policy decisions must be made to address the challenges around multiple award contracts.
May 19, 2010