Acquisition

HITS protest upheld

The Government Accountability Office backed a protest filed by Lockheed Martin over the $750 million HUD Information Technology Systems contract.

Acquisition

Supply execs plans 2005 changes

It's the integration era, says Donna Bennett, Federal Supply Service commissioner.

Acquisition

Buyers gather in Canada

A three-day conference will bring together procurement officials and businesses from throughout the Americas.

Acquisition

Wehrmeyer: Say no to yearly certification

Revenue thresholds don't make a company ready to compete.

Acquisition

Kane: Sum of its parts

Viewing the federal IT market as a group of segments has value.

Acquisition

Coping with contracting

Federal agencies face changes in their acquisition environments coming from several fronts, according to a new report issued today by the Professional Services Council.

Acquisition

Census plans $1.3B in contracts

The Census Bureau plans to award two contracts in October 2005 to create systems that will be used for the six-week process of collecting data for the 2010 census.

Acquisition

Officials talk time and materials

Industry representatives told GSA officials today that any new provisions for time-and-materials and labor-hour contracts should be flexible.

Acquisition

Trade group sees stricter GSA

Companies that sell through the General Services Administration will find agency officials more likely to be sticklers for rules in coming months, according to an industry official.

Acquisition

Kelman: The comeback kid

GSA's Drabkin deserves our thanks.

Acquisition

Big guys took small-biz deals, CPI says

The Center for Public Integrity says DOD awarded more than $47 billion designated for small businesses to companies earning more than $100 million during a six-year period.

Acquisition

Purchasing results

OFPP policy imposes goals for performance-based buys

Acquisition

Dems criticize small-biz record

Agencies did not do well at sending contracting dollars to small businesses in fiscal 2003, despite what Bush administration officials say, Democrats claim.

Acquisition

Nadler: New size rules fall short

SBA missed an opportunity to plug a loophole in size regulations.

Acquisition

GSA picks hotel system vendor

CW Government Travel will manage the Federal Premier Lodging Program.

Acquisition

Rethinking time and materials

Proposed rule would expand commercial-style contracting

Acquisition

Hourly billing rule proposed

A new rule would authorize the use of time and materials contracts and labor-hour contracts for the procurement of commercial services.

Acquisition

Commerce COMMITS to 51

The Commerce Department has picked 51 companies to take part in a small-business-only IT contract.

Acquisition

An era of competition

States move ahead with strategic sourcing

Acquisition

GSA policy gets it wrong, trade group says

A new program intended to ensure that federal IT contracts are used properly would unfairly penalize contractors, says the president of ITAA.