OMB preaches patience, flexibility as acquisition reforms take off
When it comes to revamping 41 years of acquisition rules and regulations, the White House official leading this effort has a simple request. Kevin Rhodes, a senior advisor…
Rumors of NITAAC’s demise are overstated
NITAAC may want to borrow Mark Twain’s famous saying, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” NASA’s SEWP program is inundated with bids for version six of…
GSA takes a second look at a 5 billion dollar contract vehicle
The General Services Administration is taking a new look at a big contract program. It’s called Second Generation IT, or 2GIT. The multiple-award vehicle will offer computers and…
Industry has something to say about that rewrite of the buying rules
The now infamous rewrite of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, all 2,000 pages of it, the government has a lot of work to do. But the result will have…
Contractors hit hardest by contract cancellations at the Education Department
The Education Department has canceled more than $3 billion in contracts or threatens to. Contractor services company TechnoMile finds that one in five contractors have their entire Education…
After decades of critiquing this agency, now he’s helping run it
What’s it like to spend literally decades trying to understand, decode and interpret a federal agency and then joining it at the executive level? Larry Allen spent years…
Industry wonders whether the Pentagon will ever reform its budgeting system
The Defense Department’s planning, programming, budgeting and execution system it looks pretty much like it has for decades. This, more than a year has after a Congressionally-chartered commission…
Preventing “Toilet Paper Resignations”
What are you doing to make it less likely that any of your employees get so angry at your organization that they quit and submit their resignation on…
GSA ‘unimpressed,’ insulted by consulting companies’ efforts to cut spending
The General Services Administration is running out of patience with the top government consulting firms. In a strongly worded letter sent to all 10 firms, GSA warned them…
What contractors need to do now to prepare for terminations for convenience
When the government terminates a contract for convenience, the contractor has certain rights and responsibilities. To find out how contractors can prepare in the current environment, Federal News…