Acquisition
Senators to DOD: Use more of your own employees
Lawmakers urge DOD to avoid placing caps on department employees that contractors don't have to also abide by.
Acquisition
VA resumes reverse auctions, but questions linger
Updated guidelines on reverse auctions require contracting officers to show how they benefit the agency's bottom line.
Acquisition
Industry wants agencies in control, not mandates
Industry groups want agencies to have discretion and the authority to manage its acquisition as it sees best.
Digital Government
Looking for lessons from the GSA conference spending debacle
In the wake of the scandal, agencies are concerned that all training and networking events will be trimmed.
Acquisition
GSA's defenders line up
Rep. Jeff Denham's call to dismantle GSA meets skepticism and opposition in the acquisition community.
Acquisition
Issa warns against 'gimmicks' at technology field hearings
Two senior Democratic members of the House committee ask for field hearing to look at IT, acquisition priorities, but Rep. Darrell Issa has strong words for them.
People
PSC: New research center isn't CMS' only option
As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid updates to meet the new health-care law, one industry group says officials have more options that launching a research center.
Acquisition
Contracting bill would settle debate over including political donations in bids
A House committee approves a bill that would ban agencies from requiring political contribution infromation in contract bids.
People
House tightens controls on conference spending
The DATA Act digs deep into agencies’ conference spending with quarterly reports.
Digital Government
Republicans, Obama in stalemate on avoiding automatic spending cuts
The Obama administration has given a framework to avoid the looming sequestration, but House Republicans say the proposals won't pass in either chamber. What now?
Acquisition
OFPP nominee could be in for a long wait
Obama's nominee for OFPP administration gets a hearing, but experts say getting the actual confirmation vote is too tough to call.
Acquisition
Agencies to pay more toward contractor exec salaries
Obama administration fails in its effort to reduce contractor executive compensation in contracts.
Acquisition
GSA's Oracle cancellation still a mystery
When parties can’t agree on aspects of a contract, experts say call it a day.
Acquisition
Congress steps up efforts to control conference costs
Following GSA scandal, lawmakers continue proposals to bat down overspending by agenices on conferences.
Acquisition
GSA kills Oracle contract
GSA cancels Oracle's Schedule 70 contract for IT services, but offers few details on why.
People
More senators take aim at conference spending
Several senators are advocating for reforms to agencies' annual spending on conferences, including proving that the conference advanced the ageny's mission.
Acquisition
Sole-source justifications for small-business contracts made permanent
Agencies have been under an interim rule requiring them to justify many small-business sole-source awards. Now the rule has become final.
Acquisition
Meet the evangelists of interacting in gov 2.0 style
In an emerging 2.0 government, two officials at GSA took a chance on a new way to get government and industry to interact.
Digital Government
Senator wants approvals for conference spending
Under a forthcoming bill, a senior agency official would have to give approval for any conference costing more than $200,000.
People
GSA takes budget control from regions
GSA's regions no longer have authority over their budgets, part of the battered agency's effort to recover from its recent scandal.
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