Tom Temin My guest is Jack Pellegrino. He is the director of purchasing and contracting for San Diego County. And that’s California, correct? Jack Pellegrino That’s California. Tom…
The federal acquisition workforce has recovered from the so-called “peace dividend” of the 1990s. The number of 1102s or contracting officers, is at its highest point in the…
The Labor Department is out with a final rule to update how the government determines wages it will allow in federal construction contractors, as well as in federally…
The expert panel Congress assembled to find fixes to the Pentagon’s archaic planning and budgeting process won’t deliver its final prescription for reform until next spring. But its…
A 200 year-old law created to protect the government from paying for goods and services they may never receive is the latest obstacle agencies in how they buy…
It doesn’t have boiling flasks or people in white coats, but a lot happens in the Procurement Innovation Lab (PIL) operated by the Homeland Security Department. For an…
Advance contracts and GSA contracts for state and local governments, are a couple of the avenues by which the federal government and its acquisition system will get aid…
A new organization its founders called a “first of its kind” will focus on matchmaking between technology innovators, funding opportunities and the federal government. National Technology Alliance (NTA)…
Just as no car is rustproof, no house fireproof, nor any boat sink-proof, no federal procurement is protest proof. But federal contracting teams can do much to minimize…
This week on Amtower Off Center, host Mark Amtower is joined by Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions at Deltek, to discuss the latest Clarity Study….