Acquisition

Feds seek contractor emissions data

A proposed new Federal Acquisitions Regulation rule would require federal suppliers to supply yearly greenhouse gas emissions data.

Acquisition

A pivot to post-award

What contracting officer representatives really think is needed to fix contract management.

Acquisition

What getting to agile looks like from the trenches

Steve Kelman talks to a longtime contracting officer about the realities of making agile work for an agency.

Modernization

GSA sets summer expectations for EIS, Alliant 2

GSA has given vendors a heads-up on the next steps for its $50 billion EIS telecom contract and the Alliant RFPs.

Acquisition

How to approach post-award management of agile contracts

Steve Kelman talks with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services CIO Mark Schwartz about the practical matters of past performance evaluations and continued discourse.

Acquisition

DHS helps mobile firm move into GSA's Schedule 70 fast lane

The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate helped a small mobile security company join GSA’s largest, most widely used acquisition vehicle in just 35 days.

Modernization

GSA seeks input on cloud services contract

New government-wide acquisition vehicle would cover “all cloud computing services and cloud computing service-based solutions.”

Acquisition

DISA tweaks RFP for $17.5B contracting vehicle

Officials hope Encore III can vault the Pentagon into a new era of secure and interoperable IT use.

Acquisition

GSA seeks manager for Schedule 70 IT contract

The General Services Administration is searching new leadership for it largest IT purchasing program, and separately named an agency IT Category executive.

Cybersecurity

Army looks to bridge biometrics contract

Northrop Grumman is getting an extension on a contract for a military biometrics capability.

Acquisition

Me and Donald Trump

Steve Kelman believes a 2014 note from Donald Trump points to the potential for an outbreak of civility on the part of the Republican frontrunner.

Acquisition

Rung: Federal category managers are getting right to work

The 10 recently named federal category managers are meeting with industry and each other to hone buying oversight strategies.

Acquisition

PSC wants answers on cancelled $675M cyber solicitation

The Department of Homeland Security's cancellation of a huge cybersecurity solicitation leaves potential contractors upset and on the hook for costs sunk into bids.

Modernization

FirstNet pushes bid deadline two weeks

FirstNet extended the deadline for RFP submissions, as it makes room for bidders to make their capabilities cases.

Modernization

$50B telecom contract protested over SAM access

A pre-award protest was filed in GSA's huge, next-generation telecommunications contract for lack of access to SAM portal.

Modernization

Vendors still have questions as $50B telecom deadline approaches

As the deadline looms for contract proposal submission for its huge telecom contract, GSA looks towards transition

Acquisition

Pentagon seeks more visibility into industry R&D

A proposed rule would require firms undertaking government-reimbursed independent R&D efforts to tell defense officials before doing so, and to share the results of those investments afterward.

Acquisition

Contracting cases could be held up by Supreme Court uncertainty

Add two key federal contracting lawsuits to the long list of issues that could be complicated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Acquisition

The big shift: When civil servants move to the other side

Steve Kelman looks at what happens when long-time civil servants transition from government to industry.