Acquisition

GSA aims large task order to small businesses

Doan and other officials met today to make final changes to upcoming RFP to streamline the agency’s IT infrastructure.

Acquisition

SARA Panel approves ethics recommendations

In what is likely to be its final meeting, the Acquisition Advisory Panel put the finishing touches on a set of recommendations concerning ethical behavior for contractors.

Acquisition

Maryland takes CSC contract to streets

The company will provide technical and business services for the Coordinated Highways Action Response Team under a new contract, worth as much as $44 million.

Acquisition

Kelman: Unsung heroes of contracting

Phil Salmeri understands performance contracting, and he tries to help government folks do the same.

Acquisition

Web extra: What the IG audit found

The Defense Department's inspector general unearthed numerous problems with purchases made by DOD and the General Services Administration.

Acquisition

Audit puts GSA on the spot again

IG cites procurement violations yet recommends DOD do business with GSA.

Acquisition

Jim Williams: Rebuilding GSA by focusing on customers

The new commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service said he intends to rebuild GSA’s business by being more in tune with customers and creating new business models.

Acquisition

NASA, NOAA award $101.7M satellite contract

Assurance Technology Corp. will work on the next generation of NOAA weather satellites, which will relay information about hazardous space storms and radiation.

Acquisition

USDA seeks replacement for aging financial management system

The Agriculture Department wants to replace a mainframe financial system that is used to pay one-third of all federal employees.

Acquisition

Industry groups oppose FAR panel proposals

Tech alliance says some proposed changes could undo good procurement reforms

Acquisition

OMB official pledges action on bundling

Clay Johnson promises to take more aggressive steps to curb the unnecessary bundling of contracts, a practice that keeps many deals out of the hands of small businesses.

Acquisition

Va. zooms in on traffic congestion

The state's Department of Transportation will deploy surveillance cameras to manage traffic in the McLean area of Fairfax County.

Acquisition

Editorial: Competition matters

GSA’s attempt to bring more contracts under its purview is misguided.

Acquisition

SARA Panel wants better reporting

It wants to conduct studies on interagency data on awards of contracts, grants and agreements through a Web-accessible database that the public can search.

Acquisition

Allen: New rules of contract ethics (full version)

Promoting your ethical behavior may actually help your firm win government business

Acquisition

Allen: New rules of contract ethics

Promoting your ethical behavior may actually help your firm win government business

Acquisition

OMB pools info about improper payments

The Office of Management and Budget added a new appendix to OMB Circular A-123 to bring together three memos from 2003 about improper payments.

Acquisition

Census Bureau awards IT contract to CNSI

The company will help support the Regional Office Survey Control system.

Acquisition

SAIC to support Agriculture's crop insurance program

GSA awarded the $120 million task order under its Millennia contract on behalf of Agriculture.

Acquisition

Leave contracting alone, industry coalition says

Several trade organizations have issued a joint statement condemning the SARA Panel's proposed contracting reforms, saying they would erase a decade of procurement reforms.