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.
Acquisition
Commerce explores shared e-mail service
The department issued an RFI for a center that would provide e-mail, calendar, instant messaging and mobile services.
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.
Acquisition
Senators unhappy with SBA
Kerry’s committee decries lack of progress on meeting the needs of small businesses.
Acquisition
Kelman: It's all in the requirements
What makes successful IT projects? For many, it's obvious.
Acquisition
Kerry criticizes SBA over decade-old policies
The senator said the agency seems asleep when it comes to issues related to minority-owned small businesses.
Acquisition
GSA mulls how to keep acquisition shops in business
But one option not on the table is canceling its assisted services business, agency officials say.
Acquisition
Kerry queries DOD on missed vet set-aside goal
The senator has asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates for a clear statement of DOD's intent to spend more money with businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.
Acquisition
OFPP to turn up heat on task-order competition
In a forthcoming memo, agencies will be required to solicit multiple bids for task orders that cross a specified dollar threshold and to collect data on their competitive practices.
Acquisition
GSA ponders fate of assisted services
Officials agree that something must be done to stop the steady hemorrhaging of dollars.
Acquisition
GSA takes fresh look at contract for FedBizOpps.gov
Agency officials decide to follow judge's order and reopen evaluations to revamp the federal procurement portal.
Acquisition
GPO shops for better smart card printing capabilities
The Government Printing Office wants electronic card counters, software, and integration and consulting services.
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House votes in favor of small businesses
After some wrangling earlier this week, it voted 371 to 55 to increase to 30 percent the federal contracting money agencies should give to small businesses.
Acquisition
Fickle House leaves small-biz procurement goal in limbo
House committees wrangle over the percentage of federal contracts that should go to small businesses.
Acquisition
Wagner: A recipe for failure
There are good and bad ways to sell to feds. The best way is to understand their needs.
Acquisition
A-76 is a tough sell for OMB
Proponents say the policy makes the government operate more effectively and efficiently, but many skeptics oppose it.
Acquisition
USDA to give grant-making a makeover
The Agriculture Department has awarded a contract to TCG to help modernize its grants-management processes using Lean Six Sigma techniques.
Acquisition
Justice joins fraud lawsuit
Whistle-blower suit alleges that IT vendors submitted false invoices to the government.
Acquisition