NIH $50 billion IT services contract being buried under protests
At a rally in the nation’s capital, federal employees voiced support for a larger pay raise next year. The American Federation of Government Employees led a union rally…
Protest is ‘last resort’ to get GSA’s commercial platforms program to comply with JWOD Act
It’s a shame when the only way to get an agency’s attention on an acquisition problem is through a lawsuit. Unfortunately, it’s an all too common occurrence with…
Mergers & acquisitions in GovCon
Kevin DeSanto, managing director and co-founder, KippsDeSanto This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Kevin DeSanto, managing director and co-founder of KippsDeSanto, a…
What’s next for agency sustainability plans, climate adaptation and resilience plans?
On October 6, 2022, the Biden Administration released updates from 25 agencies covering their climate adaptation and resilience program progress over the past year. Just one year earlier,…
Looking for help with space regulations?
Creating the technology to get to space is hard enough, something that may be just as or even more difficult, navigating your way through the bureaucratic regulations that…
DoD builds AI tool to speed up ‘antiquated process’ for contract writing
The Defense Department is testing out an artificial intelligence tool to help the agency write contracts and speed up the federal acquisition process. DoD’s Chief Digital and AI…
Defense Industrial Base loses thousands more firms, mainly because DoD is a tough customer
The Defense Industrial Base is still quite vast, but it’s steadily shrinking. The latest edition of an annual report by the National Defense Industrial Association suggests that even…
One more step away from the acquisition regulation that most vendors hate
The General Services Administration wants to expand the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) program to more of its contract vehicles. A new memo from Jeff Koses, GSA’s senior procurement…
CMMC spurs cybersecurity awareness, but don’t sleep on everything else
As I was about to enter a large breakout room at the Gaylord Hotel in Nashville back in July 2013, I was excited to deliver a presentation on…
Category management — never quite trusted on the civilian side — comes to Defense acquisition
The Defense Department is telling its acquisition people to use what’s known as category management to expand the use of small business. But for years, small business has…