Acquisition
OMB clarifies HR line of business
New guidance for Human Resources LOB focuses on the application of A-76 rules.
Acquisition
Wagner: The wave of the future
Agencies can benefit from shared services, a model based on mutual accountability.
Acquisition
Kelman: Buying commercial
The debates about commercial contracting and government risk involve high stakes.
Acquisition
Petrillo: A failed experiment
It’s time to declare interagency contracts a failure after more than a decade of trying that approach.
People
DOD limits GovWorks buys to $100K
The most recent inspector general audits finds continued problems with Interior's contracting and funding processes.
People
SmartBuy encryption award to be available to states
GSA and DOD expect to award their selection for encryption products for mobile data security under the program June 15.
People
DOD acquisition chief Krieg resigns
He wants to spend more time with his family, according to a statement from the Defense Department.
Cybersecurity
OMB finalizes acquisition language for standard desktop configuration
Agencies must include provisions by June 30 in all procurements.
Modernization
Networx: Now for the hard choices
With Universal and now Enterprise, feds must sort through telecom options.
People
McDonough: The need for IGs
Recent attacks on agency inspectors general are misguided during a time of diminished oversight.
People
Doan's attorney: OSC's report off the mark, unfair
No one can erase the stigma that now overshadows the case, Michael Nardotti wrote.
Acquisition
Corini: Raise your guard
5 beneficial practices for managing your GSA schedule contracts and staying clean.
Acquisition
The next big thing: TEM
Telecommunications expense management is a service that promises to help agencies control their burgeoning costs for telecom devices and services.
Acquisition
OFPP pushes for more competition
Office of Federal Procurement Policy listens to SARA panel recommendations to increase the number of bids for task and delivery orders.
People
Doan, Bloch trade barbs over leaked report
Special Counsel Scott Bloch denies leaking the report and accuses GSA Administrator Lurita Doan of contriving the whole thing.
People
IG: Contract data late, incorrect
Data entered manually rather than downloaded to the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation is to blame, GSA's inspector general says.
Acquisition
Guerra: Performance-based acquisition is not working
OMB may be praising agencies' progress on using such contracts, but they are just the same prescriptive contracts with a new name.
People
Wagner: Lead with the mission
How to transcend the IT stuff and get to the point, which is enabling agency programs to succeed.
People