Acquisition

The government’s e-marketplace experiment

To serve government buyers, a provider must balance between commercial efficiency and public accountability.

Modernization

Report: FedRAMP must evolve to meet demand, emerging tech

A new report lays out where FedRAMP has gone wrong – and what can be done to fix it.

Acquisition

Cheriyan: More Centers of Excellence coming

The new Centers of Excellence at the Departments of Defense and Labor will not be the last, said the head of GSA's Technology Transformation Service.

People

Former GSA official among Trump's pardons

David Safavian was administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy when he was arrested in 2005.

Acquisition

GSA extends and expands contractor debriefing pilot

The General Services Administration is offering contractors a longer and more detailed explanation of award decisions.

People

GSA seeks assisted acquisitions exec

GSA is searching for an assistant commissioner to help oversee assisted acquisitions, including FedSIM.

Digital Government

House bill would make modernization CoEs law

A new bipartisan bill would codify the General Services Administration’s Centers of Excellence.

Digital Government

Contractors detail SAM website woes

Trade group relates ongoing problems with contracting opportunities.

Digital Government

Trump budget seeks $150M boost for TMF

Despite two consecutive years of congressional lowballing, the administration is looking to boost the Technology Modernization Fund with a $150 million addition in fiscal year 2021.

Digital Government

Agencies look to 'low code' to speed development

Increasingly federal agencies are looking to easy-to-use "low code" development techniques to build public-facing apps.

Acquisition

GSA launches second phase of buying schedule consolidation

The General Services Administration has started the process of modifying contracts to fit the new unified buying schedule.

Digital Government

Fighting bots and comment spam

Experts are divided about what constitutes abuse of the comment process during federal rulemaking.

Acquisition

GSA names permanent acquisition chief

Julie Dunne will lead the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA on a permanent basis.

Modernization

How GSA does oversight on EIS

With a March deadline looming, GSA is checking on how agencies are moving ahead with their telecom transition plans.

Acquisition

Hill Democrats quiz GSA chief about Trump hotel sale

Initial bids are supposed to be in for the sale of the lease on the Old Post Office Building, but it's not clear how much the government knows about the deal yet.

Acquisition

Mary Davie: Exit interview

After 30 years at the General Services Administration, Mary Davie is headed for a new innovation post at NASA.

Digital Government

GSA sets the stage for update to federal sites and apps

A new website, maturity model and other resources are now available to guide agencies as they implement the 21st Century IDEA Act.

Cybersecurity

GSA fine tunes e-commerce effort

The changes GSA made to its commercial electronic marketplace solicitation in early January makes the portal proposal more amenable to commercial providers, experts said.

Modernization

CenturyLink wins $1.6 billion telecom task order from Interior

After a protest from rival Verizon failed, CenturyLink emerged as the winner of the Interior Department's telecom modernization task order under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.

Cybersecurity

DHS, GSA propose centralized vulnerability disclosure platform

In an RFI, the government pings industry for feedback on how to set up a primary point of entry for security researchers to warn agencies about bugs in their internet-accessible systems.