Charlotte Phelan, assistant commissioner of the, Office of Enterprise Strategy Management at GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) joins Off the Shelf for a discussion of the role, responsibilities,…
In its first and second parts, this series has explored two of the principal bases for bid protests: flawed technical evaluations and unreasonable cost evaluations. These protests are…
Debt default would seem, in some ways, like a government shutdown. But it’s not. The government is fully appropriated for the rest of fiscal 2023. It is the…
If the U.S. is to prevail in the world’s strategic hot spots, the Defense Department will have to adopt some of the strategies China seems to be using…
It’s another end of a government fiscal quarter, which starts a number of reporting clocks for government contractors, including for the General Services Administration’s industrial funding fee (IFF)…
As the Pentagon moves to create novel ways of customizing acquisition to make the process faster and more agile, a new crop of acquisition professionals is learning their…
Nagesh Rao was sitting in New York visiting his family when someone on his team at the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Commerce Department headquarters called…
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. The General Services Administration’s Acquisition Letter…
A new report from the General Services Administration’s Inspector General didn’t have many nice things to say about its Multiple Award Schedule’s Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) pilot. First…
The Small Business Administration expects the federal government to meet upcoming targets for more of its contract spending to go to small companies, but is trying to reverse…