Acquisition
Kelman: Inconvenient truths
Getting a demoralized contracting community back on track is possible with good leadership
Acquisition
GSA, Army sign enterprise license deals for IT asset management
Agencies buying asset management software could save more than 50 percent off GSA schedule prices.
Acquisition
Industry to evaluate GSA's grasp on info protection services
The agency wants to put individual services, such as credit monitoring and independent risk analysis, into one contract.
Acquisition
Bush: Provisions in small-biz bill 'constitutionally suspect'
The legislation would allow agencies to confine competition for some contracts to women business owners in male-dominated industries, and it would raise the net worth business owners can have and still be eligible for the 8(a) program.
Acquisition
Acquisition reform proves slow-going, panelists say
The current political environment makes agency officials wary of trying innovative contracting methods, according to a panel at the Executive Leadership Conference.
Acquisition
Grassley: Sun controversy a sign of deeper contracting problems
GSA officials take issue with the senator's perspective, saying the now-expired contract with Sun was "not the example of contracting irregularities that some have hoped."
Acquisition
NIH seeks enterprise Web content system
The agency wants something that can integrate with existing systems in a diverse IT environment.
Acquisition
States get SmartBuy discounts
SafeBoot extends USDA’s discount prices for encryption to state, local governments
Acquisition
IG warns against year-end spending frenzy at IRS
At IRS, hurried spending leads to wasteful errors
Acquisition
Editorial: Fixing the spree
We are two weeks into the new fiscal year, and nearly everyone is recovering from the annual end-of-year spending spree.
Acquisition
Kelman: The art of negotiation
Many contracting officials are showing business savvy on behalf of the government. GSA should help them.
Acquisition
Letter: Give service-disabled veteran-owned businesses a break
Put those businesses into the same category as Alaska native-owned companies.
Acquisition
GSA offers risk analysis services for breaches
The agency signed BPAs with Identity Theft Guard Solutions and SRA International to provide the services.
Acquisition
EPA awards Alion another waste cleanup contract
The company will provide analysis of waste samples, analytical and field support services, and technical information and electronic data transfer capabilities.
Acquisition
Last-minute spending hurts IRS, IG says
As a result of the rush, the agency sometimes violates regulations, and contractors may have skipped steps in the procurement process, a new report states.
Acquisition
HHS awards $22.5M in contracts to health info exchanges
The exchanges will participate in trial implementations of the Nationwide Health Information Network.
Acquisition
No pain, no gain on small-biz goals
The Census Bureau applies pressure to prime contractors via contract award fees.
Acquisition
Large contractors need to give small biz more chances
Large prime contractors tend to let small businesses take on jobs the big guys won't make a lot of money doing, a reader says.
Acquisition
GSA awards $0 contract for spending database data
Global Computing Enterprises, which runs the Federal Procurement Data System, received the contract to supply contracting and grants data with a bid of $0.
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