Professional Services Council
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Contractors are starting to understand what the 2023 budget proposal by the Biden administration will look like. Here is one analysis from a man who has studied them for decades.
April 05, 2022 -
The procurement environment is a little confusing at the moment. Appropriations came through with only a half a year to obligate them. The 2023 budget schedule is foggy. And inflation overlays the buying power of every dollar.
March 22, 2022 -
A new rule increasing the U.S.-made content in what the government buys is on the way. The Federal Acquisition Regulation Council published it yesterday. It increases the minimum U.S. content from 55% to 60%, and eventually to 75%. But, the rule has several exceptions
March 08, 2022 -
Last week's report from the Pentagon on defense industrial base competitiveness didn't sit well with services contractors.
February 23, 2022 -
The continuing resolution, having now eaten up nearly five months of the fiscal year, is starting to affect the market valuations of publicly traded federal contractors. That may not seem like a concern of the government, but think again.
February 08, 2022 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Contractors who scrambled to deal with the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate are now scrambling to figure out…
January 25, 2022 -
Federal contractors face looming continuing resolution deadlines just a month off. They're also facing an ever tighter compliance and small business contracting regime.
January 11, 2022 -
For federal contractors, 2021 comes to an end with no appropriations for 2022 until halfway through the fiscal year.
December 28, 2021 -
Like a pile of pick-up sticks, the Biden administration's contractor vaccine mandate has collapsed in a heap. But that doesn't end the matter necessarily.
December 14, 2021 -
A rule ostensibly about fairness may not be so fair on close examination.
November 30, 2021 -
An executive order from the Biden administration is ostensibly aimed at protecting employees of services contractors. With one view of it, the executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council, Stephanie Kostro.
November 30, 2021 -
From lack of a new budget to roiling vaccine mandates, the federal government, from contractors' point of view, has become, you might say, an even more difficult customer. Federal Drive with Tom Temin checked in with the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, David Berteau.
November 16, 2021 -
Contractors have some big concerns of their own about how the vaccine mandate is supposed to work in practice. Stephanie Kostro, executive vice president for policy at the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about some of the issues vendors are flagging.
November 02, 2021 -
With deadlines inching closer, employees and contractors get more details on federal vaccine mandateThe Biden administration in recent days has offered up more details on how agencies might handle religious exception requests from federal employees. Contractors should make a "good faith" effort to comply with the federal vaccine mandate, according to recent guidance.
November 01, 2021 -
Federal contractors only want two things at the moment. Besides contracts that is. One is for Congress, specifically the Senate, to get on with the National Defense Authorization law already.
October 19, 2021