That rumbling you hear is the end of the fiscal year approaching
Time-wise, there’s not much left of the federal fiscal year. Less then three months now. Money-wise it’s a different story. Agencies will spend around $217 billion between now…
Busy federal fourth quarter to bleed into just as crazy first quarter of 2024
The fourth quarter federal buying season official kicked off on Saturday. And it’s expected to be as busy as ever. Bloomberg Government estimates agencies will spend about $217…
Congress should protect competition, save Section 876
When awarding government contracts, actual pricing will always beat hypothetical pricing. Yet most multiple award task and delivery order contracts are awarded based on hypothetical pricing. To change…
Industry leaders band together to ask DoD for acquisition reform
When 13 technology and venture capital leaders wrote an open letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on June 26, it was a plea to reform the Defense…
Leveraging the collective buying power of the government
This column was originally published on Roger Waldron’s blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author. As a best practice, commercial firms…
GAO upholds 98 protests of CIO-SP4 GWAC
The Government Accountability Office threw the CIO-SP4 governmentwide acquisition contract into further disarray. GAO today upheld 98 protests from companies who were eliminated in Phase 1 of the…
Congress keeping close tabs on VA’s third try to replace decades-old financial management system
The Department of Veterans Affairs has tried twice before to replace its aging financial management IT system. Both attempts failed. But the third try looks like it could…
IPPS-A expands services for Army payroll and human resources
The Army’s new payroll and human resources system rolled out in January, but the team managing Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A) still has work to do in…
A discussion of the current GovCon landscape
This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by contracts guru Larry Allen, to discuss the current GovCon landscape. Larry Allen, president, Allen Federal Business…
Let’s thank those federal employees who buy things
Nothing happens until somebody buys something. I learned that from a magazine publisher I worked for a long time ago. He was mainly concerned with ad sales. But…