How to keep new policy from making procurement less efficient
Frontline contracting officers contend with a lot of policy. One thing about policy, it’s always changing. And that can get in the way of basic efficiency and pricing…
60 pages, 3 months of reviews cut from Aberdeen Proving Ground’s acquisition policy
The contract policy guide at the Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground became a lot like a ship which needs to scrape the barnacles off every once…
That Supreme Court affirmative action decision is already affecting federal contracting
When the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action as practiced by Harvard University, it set off a tsunami. One of those giant waves is already washing over federal…
Contractors are also combing through the House and Senate defense authorization bills
The defense authorization bills, while contentious, would do a lot for contractors; from inflation relief to easing greenhouse gas emissions reporting. For a summary, Federal Drive Host Tom…
DoJ’s two big False Claims Act settlements a sign of things to come?
A huge fine for a big name government contractor. A flood of interest for the next great governmentwide acquisition contract. And despite all the challenges with the federal…
The Defense Department clarifies how to use other transaction authority
Other Transaction Authority (OTA) acquisitions have become popular in the Defense Department and other agencies, to the tune of billions of dollars a year. OTA’s have guardrails against…
Federal contractor guilty of $7M methodology mistake
Your agency’s customer satisfaction scores may not have been as accurate as you thought. Remember those scores your agency received under the American Customer Satisfaction Index over the…
A new way to keep track of all that Inflation Reduction and CHIPS Act money
With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, that means a large amount of investment from…
Defense Innovation Board suggests ways to bridge the ‘valley of death’
When it comes to developing new technology, the so-called “valley of death” starts to look more like a bridge in need of repairs. Those repairs are needed across…
How regulations not meant for contractors, sometimes end up complicating their business
When agencies enact new rules aimed at curtailing some aspects of the larger national economy they can sometimes lead to conflicting impacts on federal contracting, both for the…