Acquisition
GSA expects to award STARS II in July
GSA officials pushed back the award date for a month to get better prices from bidding companies on the governmentwide, small-business IT contract.
Acquisition
Congressman wants to halt insourcing
Republican congressman, expressing concern for small businesses, urges a moratorium on returning formerly contracted work to the government.
Acquisition
Biz groups want Congress to protect outsourcing
A coalition of business groups is asking Congress to uphold outsourcing and limit insourcing in the upcoming fiscal 2012 spending bills.
Acquisition
Turnabout: GSA pulls back major contract
After apparently awarding a contract to small businesses, GSA rescinds it almost immediately and urges bidders to rethink their prices.
Acquisition
Senators try to block politics from procurement
A Senate committee has approved legislation that would bar any rule to force companies that bid on federal contracts to report who they supported with political contributions.
Acquisition
Continuity after Kundra
The departure of federal CIO Vivek Kundra puts continuity in the spotlight, writes Steve Kelman.
Acquisition
Obama to use government to increase investment in business
Agencies will talk about federal programs and incentives available to investors doing business with U.S. companies.
Acquisition
GAO will finish its bid protest work
The Defense Information Systems Agency contended that GAO's authority to review certain bid protests ended on May 27, leaving Technatomy’s protest without merit.
Acquisition
Ginman officially named director of defense procurement policy
Richard Ginman takes place of Shay Assad in defense procurement policy, as Assad moves to pricing policies.
Acquisition
Baucus bill would highlight veterans' small-business contracts
A senator wants to put the spotlight on agencies’ work to award contracts to service-disabled veteran small business owners.
Acquisition
Offensensitivity: Are you joking?
FCW cartoonist John Klossner recounts his adventure trying to make a joke about a very grim topic.
Acquisition
DOD wants truer picture of former feds' jobs
A proposed rule would require companies to assure agencies that they comply with rules governing former federal officials before the companies receive a contract award.
Acquisition
5 ideas for improving the acquisition process
Five experts share their ideas for improving different steps of the acquisition life cycle.
Acquisition
Defense bill: 4 provisions to turn back the clock on insourcing
The House's defense authorization bill changes course on past efforts to restore contracted work to federal employees.
Acquisition
GAO: Agencies question usefulness of contract inventories
Some agency officials fear their in-depth inventories of service contracts will turn out to be useful to no one due to funding, manpower shortages.
Acquisition
House members support contractors in fight over pay
The tax has been tagged as a way to decrease the tax gap and make delinquent companies pay their share of taxes, although many lawmakers disagree.
Acquisition
Reporting political contributions would be bad for business, senator warns
Efforts to bolster competition and reach small businesses would be hurt if the administration begins to require companies to include political contributions in their contract bids, a senator says.
Acquisition
Some contractors owed taxes before getting stimulus infusion, GAO finds
The Government Accountability Office reviewed 80,000 contractors that got economic stimulus law funding and found that at least 3,700 owe unpaid federal taxes.
Acquisition
The 1,500 Commandments for contracting officers
How can contracting officers think about ways to make more creative and cost-effective acquisitions when just following the rules is a full-time job?
Acquisition
Want better contracts? Get creative.
Cost-reimbursement and fixed-priced contracts are just two ends of the contracting spectrum, writes Ray Bjorklund, senior vice president and chief knowledge officer at Deltek FedSources.
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