Acquisition

HUD splits HITS

The protests are over. Both contractors win, with each getting half of the $800 million contract.

Acquisition

Editorial: Not for the faint of heart

Procurement policies matter.

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

Aronie: The lesson of time

When it comes to procurement protests, late is late.

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

TSA ices sole-sourced screening deal

Transportation Security Administration officials have to use competitive bidding for a screening equipment maintenance contract.