Acquisition

Why the budget outlook is even worse than you think

Here are 8 reasons why Congress' efforts to fund the government are doomed to dysfunction.

Acquisition

A contracting how-to for agency leaders

The IBM Center for the Business of Government releases a guide for executives.

Acquisition

Sourcing restrictions: prudent or punitive?

Rules limiting procurement from China are only part of the international picture.

Acquisition

OASIS sparks cheering, challenges

The General Services Administration is being simultaneously praised and pummeled by organizations interested in its $60 billion One Acquisition Solutions for Integrated Services multiple award contracts.

Acquisition

GSA addresses OASIS protest

Amendment assuages USfalcon's concern; second protest remains underway.

Acquisition

New report reveals Army's troubled IT acquisition program

A program designed to fast-track network capabilities for troops is too often letting inferior technologies advance, GAO finds.

Acquisition

Air Force expands OASIS embrace

Three Air Force organizations have expressed a desire to use GSA's OASIS contract.

Acquisition

NIST includes component origins in assessing supply chain risk

Draft guidance adds 'provenance' as an explicit risk category, outlines potentially expensive documentation process.

Acquisition

The silent killer of innovation

The government has access to all manner of exciting and useful technologies, but is not always able to take full advantage of them.

Acquisition

Argonne, Fermi host fair to engage small contractors

Energy Department research labs want half their contracts to go to small businesses.

Acquisition

China-sourcing restrictions spelled out in SEWP

NASA's new five-year IT acquisitions vehicle extends restrictions on sourcing computer gear manufactured in China.

Acquisition

OASIS under protest

Days after GSA issued the long-awaited RFPs, two protests have been filed.

Acquisition

GSA portal aids in contract selection

GSA has launched its new electronic tool designed to help federal, state and local government agencies find their way through the growing thicket of federal IT purchasing contracts.

Acquisition

Contractors like late date for NASA SEWP

Federal IT suppliers swamped with end-of-the-fiscal-year purchase orders take some solace in the timing of one of the largest government-wide acquisition contracts.

Acquisition

OASIS: The details

GSA's OASIS multiple-award contract encompasses seven service areas and 28 federal classification codes.

Acquisition

OASIS RFPs issued

GSA opens bidding on a long-awaited $10 billion services contract.

Acquisition

Important contractor skills

FCW's cartoonist offers an idea on key talent for companies.

Acquisition

GSA ponders adding IT to office supply initiative

The procurement agency could add certain types of IT hardware including printers and keyboards to a strategic-sourcing program.