Category management

Contraction of small business contractors: What’s prompting the drop?

The Office of Management and Budget designed category management policies to help save the federal government money in its acquisition process. The initiative’s…

Contracts/Awards

Making best-in-class contracts better for innovation

Commentary

Head shots of Stanton, Nakasone and Hill

IT procurement and management at GSA

Off the Shelf

FILE - This March 27, 2008 file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. The civilian official overseeing the Pentagon's campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in the Middle East has resigned in the latest jolt to Pentagon leadership in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Policy winners and losers in the Defense authorization bill

Reporter's Notebook

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First Look

How the Federal Acquisition Security Council will tackle supply chain risk management

Reporter's Notebook

An inside look at federal acquisition

Off the Shelf

Group photo of Plexico, Lohfeld and Amtower

GWACs, BICs, & Category Management: Where does Small Biz fit?

Amtower Off-Center

The state of small business contracting

Off the Shelf

OFPP’s Wooten pressing the levers to change the tools, rules, talent pools of federal procurement

Acquisition Policy

Navigating the changes in federal acquisition

Amtower Off-Center

Army saved more than $1B through category management, and it’s just a start

Acquisition Policy

Army contracting command is working on its own version of category management

Major General Paul Pardew says his contracting command has chosen a few select categories of commodities to focus on.

Federal Drive

Air Force category management: Spend intelligently, not just by year’s end

In part 2 of their look at the Air Force’s procurement innovations, Tim Cooke and Anne Laurent explain why the service’s approach to category management…

Commentary

Jaclyn Smyth, Federal Security and Protection Category Manager for the Department of Homeland Security, talks with attendees of the government-wide working dog team kick-off meeting April 16, 2019, at the Air Force Security Forces Center Headquarters on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Over three days, members of ten federal agencies toured Air Force and DoD Military Working Dog facilities and shared information about their working dog programs - including challenges and best practices - and identified collaboration opportunities.

Air Force adds attitude to governmentwide category management

Commentary

Tim Cooke and Anne Laurent detail how the Air Force is finding success in using business innovations to become better buyers.