Acquisition
Procurement panel slams price reduction clause for services
The Multiple Award Schedule Advisory Panel offers 20 recommendations on how to improve GSA Schedules program.
Cybersecurity
Customs at odds with DHS IG over report on small-biz goals
Officials at Customs and Border Protection say a draft report by the inspector general contains 'misstatements of fact and inaccuracies that are misleading.'
Acquisition
Federal court gives HUBZone program priority
The Small Business Act makes it mandatory, not optional, to give HUBZone companies a preference over other small businesses, a judge rules.
Digital Government
Air Force's retro acquisition strategy comes with a price
The latest twist in the Air Force tanker program is the product of a dysfunctional procurement system, writes blogger Steve Kelman.
Acquisition
GSA promotes veteran leader to acting deputy CAO
GSA's acting deputy chief acquisition officer has 33 years of experience at the agency, including 14 years' work at the acquisition policy office.
Acquisition
Tony Costa named GSA associate administrator
Costa will find areas where GSA can compile a package of agencywide services to offer its clients.
Cybersecurity
Are DHS contractors running amok?
Two heavyweights from the Senate want to know who is running the shop at the Homeland Security Department. And whoever it is, the department's inspector general would like to speak with them.
Acquisition
Note to DOD IG: "Assisted acquisition" does mean "provide help"
DOD IG guidance moves GSA's Office of Assisted Services in the wrong direction, subtracting rather than adding value for their government customers.
Acquisition
GSA administrator Johnson to speak at FOSE
Johnson, GSA's new administrator, will speak at 11 a.m. March 25 at the Washington Convention Center.
Cybersecurity
DHS awarded noncompetitive contracts without having adequate records, IG says
The Homeland Security Department's Inspector General found gaps and missing data when he searched records on contracts awarded without open competition.
Acquisition
GSA's Drabkin heads to Northrop Grumman
David Drabkin will be Northrop Grumman's director for acquisition policy.
Acquisition
SBA proposed rule directs set-aside contracts to women-owned firms
A proposed rule is designed to help agencies award 5 percent of federal contracting dollars to women-owned small businesses.
Digital Government
DOD's reliance on commercial satellites hits new zenith
The military's ad hoc reliance on commercial satellites is prolonging efforts to meet warfighters' urgent demands for bandwidth.
Acquisition
Will contracting savings plans translate into budget cuts?
Blogger Steve Kelman believes that OMB should avoid inadvertently penalizing agencies that come up with aggressive plans for saving contracting dollars.
Acquisition
SBA tries again to help women-owned businesses get contracts
The Small Business Administration today proposed a procurement set-aside rule that would give women business-owners more opportunities in federal contracting.
Acquisition
SBA proposes subtraction rule to contracting goals
Agencies must subtract contract awards from small-business award totals if, even after the award, SBA concludes the firm isn’t eligible to be considered small
Digital Government
Huge size of DHS contractor workforce leaves senators 'astonished'
Sens. Lieberman and Collins say the huge size of DHS's contractor workforce is 'unacceptable, untenable and unsustainable.'
Digital Government
Obama administration may give better-paying contractors an advantage
Obama administration officials are considering a policy that would give preference to contractors who pay their employees higher wages, over Republican opposition.
Acquisition
Are we wasting the talents of contracting staff? (Part 2)
Blogger Steve Kelman finds that not all government contracting hires feel as if their talent is being wasted.
Acquisition
House panel links acquisition reforms to people
After a year of hearings, the chairman of a House panel on Defense Department acquisition reforms says DOD must develop new regulations for hiring and building up a civilian acquisition workforce.
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