Reporter's Notebook

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COMET recompete, Polaris protests keep acquisition exciting in early fiscal 2024

The General Services Administration is facing two new protests of its small business IT services contract known as Polaris, while VA’s awards under T4NG2…

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Blame the lawyers if your agency is paying 10%-to-25% more for certain cloud services

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Is GSA’s Alliant 3 vehicle tilted too much to small, very large contractors?

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Busy federal fourth quarter to bleed into just as crazy first quarter of 2024

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Can GSA, IG find common ground over TDR?

The fourth report in a year about the Transactional Data Reporting pilot continues to ring the same negative notes from the inspector general while GSA…

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DoD, Army PEO-EIS, GSA restock technology executive shelves

Michael Chappell is the new CIO at the Army’s Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS), a position that the organization re-established…

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(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol dome, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

House Republicans called agency job inventories ‘barely decipherable,’ and they’re not wrong

Three House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee chairmen wrote to OMB seeking data and details about how agencies are complying with the Federal Activities Inventory Reform (FAIR) Act of 1998.

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