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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
One of a start-up’s most valuable assets is intellectual property. Whether you are trademarking your name, securing a patent or acquiring licensing rights, it can help a start-up…
Only a couple of weeks until that magic date: The start of the final quarter of the federal fiscal year. It is now or never for contractors to…