The pace of end-of-fiscal-year spending is off for a variety of reasons. Among them some unresolved policy questions related to national security and the federal supply chain.
President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management is accused of 'lacking commitment to federal merit system," one of D.C.'s industry experts is leaving his high-profile post, and a congressional committee is launching an investigation into recent tragedies at Ft. Hood.
Alan Chvotkin, the executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council, helped grow the association over the last two decades as agencies spent more on services than products.
The pandemic has proven both scary and monotonous -- and now the end of the federal fiscal year is only a month away.
Companies filing for reimbursements under $2 million may get streamlined service.
You can forgive federal contractors for a little confusion. There's a new White House executive order on use of immigrant labor.
Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), along with Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), asked Senate leadership to include a provision in the next stimulus bill to extend Section 3610 provisions that provide paid leave, including sick leave, to employees and subcontractors until Dec. 31, 2021.
Lawmakers are working through passing a National Defense Authorization Act for 2021, including a fresh raft of procurement laws.
For the second year, members of the Professional Services Council have scored the quality of agency procurement forecasts according to a list of attributes.
The National Defense Authorization Act is the most visible thing on which Congress is making progress. But it's not the only thing.
The escalating dispute between the U.S. and China over Chinese telecom giant Huawei has contractors wondering about telecom policy generally.
The Pentagon is developing a policy for carrying out a section in the CARES Act which covers reimbursement for lost pay from the pandemic.
The $3 trillion proposal the House narrowly passed last week has proposals in it that will impact federal contractors.
For a roundup and the effects it's all having, the Executive Vice President and Counsel at the professional services counsel, Alan Chvotkin spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
It looks as if there is solid commitment on the part of the government to ensure contractor employees, who can't get on premises to do their work, to get paid leave.