Acquisition
Kelman: Creating value and trust
If you treat industry partners like you can’t trust them, it’ll be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Acquisition
8(a) small businesses take a tumble
GSA enforces STARS contract by dropping 197 companies that failed to meet sales target.
Acquisition
GSA: We'll change to black
GSA officials ready new business model for its assisted acquisition services business.
Acquisition
OPM restarts its financial migration
Agency vows to avoid the mistakes it made in its initial attempt at financial outsourcing.
Acquisition
Official: Vets getting more contracts but not enough
Fiscal 2006 shows more awards have gone to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses, but most agencies still miss the 3 percent goal.
Acquisition
Senate panel quizzes NOAA on satellite programs
Cost estimates have ballooned for two weather satellite programs, yet NOAA awarded the contractor a $123 million bonus, lawmakers learn.
Acquisition
Denett: Award contracts to vet-owned businesses
In a new memo, he urges agencies to use the General Services Administration’s Veterans Technology Services Governmentwide Acquisition Contract.
People
DISA plans new Encore II award
Officials said they are re-evaluating proposals and hope to award the $12 billion contract in mid-December.
People
Presidential hopefuls unfair to contractors, group says
The Contract Services Association says Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been inaccurate and misleading in some of their campaign rhetoric.
Acquisition
NGA eyes digital content-delivery system
The agency wants to create a Web portal through which analysts and warfighters can request maps and other intelligence tools.
Cybersecurity
State codifies security language
Proposed contracting rule would standardize wording of vendors’ IT security obligations.
Modernization
Doan: Networx means change
The new telecommunications contracts will have a far-reaching effect on agencies’ missions.
People
Kelman: Let the data talk
More than data, anecdotes inform the debate about recent federal acquisition changes.
People
OFPP tells agencies: Be prepared
New emergency acquisitions guide gives contracting officers the rules to follow.
People
Contract appeals boards merge into one
The new Civilian Board of Contract Appeals eliminates boards at GSA and the departments of Agriculture, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs.
People
Report: Congress needs to take charge of DOD procurement policy
Current policy requires DOD to fund a weapon or piece of equipment in the year in which the item is bought, but DOD has been buying items using other approaches.
Cybersecurity
DOD IG: Failures in NetCents jeopardize classified info
Air Force users did a poor job of addressing IT security in task orders, the IG says.
People
Georgia upgrades financial, HR software
The state will use updated Oracle PeopleSoft products to better track operational performance and move into e-procurement.
People
DOD time-and-materials contracts raise red flag for GAO
DOD will look into GAO's concern that it uses those contracts so often they have become the default method of contracting.
Acquisition
Troublesome contracting trends persist under Bush, report finds
Procurement spending and the number of noncompetitive contracts occur more frequently, according to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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