Acquisition
HUD splits HITS
The protests are over. Both contractors win, with each getting half of the $800 million contract.
Acquisition
Flyzik: Try it! It might work
Share-in-savings contracts can help further the cause of performance-based contracting.
Acquisition
Drabkin: Share-in-savings is here to stay
Share-in-savings contracts have evolved, and this year, they may be used more widely.
Acquisition
SBA extends comment time for size rule
Comments on proposed rules governing small businesses' size can be submitted until April 3.
Acquisition
The year ahead in business
Companies eye contracting policies, Congress and conversation in 2005
Acquisition
SBA: Large firms credited with small-biz deals
Report shows that $2 billion worth of federal contracts went to companies miscoded as small businesses.
Acquisition
American Indian company grows in the public sector
The small company is one of many competing for the government's information technology business.
Acquisition
GSA confirms data charges
Individuals or companies wanting direct access to federal procurement database must pay one-time charge.
Acquisition
Input: Few reversals for IT
About 8 percent to 10 percent of money spent by state governments through reverse auctions went to information technology purchases in fiscal 2004, market researcher Input said last week.
Acquisition
FAA acquisition policy needs improve, GAO says
The Government Accountability Office said the Federal Aviation Administration must strengthen policies and oversight for its acquisition management system.
Acquisition
Performance basis
Feds urge greater use of performance-based contracts as success stories emerge
Acquisition
Kelman: Show off share-in-savings
Applications for about 45 share-in-savings projects await approval.
Acquisition
Rule implements share-in-savings
The two councils that set acquisition rules for federal agencies have approved a draft final rule that would lay out share-in-savings contracting procedures.
Acquisition
Another weather supercomputer
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials released a presolicitation notice for a supercomputer to augment or replace platforms at three facilities.
Acquisition
Nadler: Giving small companies a chance
A new SBA rule seeks to ensure compliance with subcontracting goals.
Acquisition
Input says: Fed IT deals up 60 percent
Defense agencies were the primary reason for the increase, the market research firm says.
Acquisition
USPS to buy retail software
U.S. Postal Service officials are seeking bids for postal retail software from a single vendor.
Acquisition