Bob Lohfeld and Bill Gormley share how to find out how to help your company work smarter and reinvent what you’re doing to remain competitive in today’s GovCon market. Read the Q&A, watch the webcast, or listen to the podcast.
Source: Insights Blog | Proposal & Capture Management Consulting & Training from Lohfeld Consulting Group
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Source: State of the CIO 2017 | CIO
The Pentagon is developing a secure cloud computing architecture that will create a standard approach for boundary and application level security for commercial services.
Source: DoD to take on the next challenge with cloud: application security
Rules against contractor lobbying also were not strictly enforced, IG finds.
An offeror’s failure to be specific enough in responding to a solicitation may result in reasonable rejection of the offeror’s proposal.
Source: Insufficient Experience Information Sinks Offeror’s Proposal – SmallGovCon
Six industry associations wrote to FAR Council asking to delay implementing the order requiring vendors to disclose violations of 14 labor laws by a year.
Source: Industry asks for delay in fair pay, safe workplace rule implementation – FederalNewsRadio.com
The age of the customer is characterized by customer empowerment, digital technology, and new business models. These factors are changing who buys consulting, what they’re expecting, how consultants execute on these projects, and how clients pay for them. As a result, firms including Deloitte, McKinsey, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cognizant and others are changing delivery, hiring and contracting models to:
Source: Consultancies are adapting to the digital world | Forrester Blogs
Funding for Flint, Mich., remains contentious, along with new VA whistleblower office.
The Department of Defense (DoD) published a proposed rule regarding its Mentor-Protege program last week. The Mentor-Protege program has been around since 1991 and was intended to provide incentives to major DoD contractors to furnish eligible small business – primarily disadvantaged small business -concerns with assistance designed to enhance the capabilities of eligible small business concerns to perform as subcontractors and suppliers under DoD contracts (and subcontracts) and to increase the participation of such business concerns as subcontractors and suppliers under DoD contracts as well as non-DoD contracts and commercial contracts.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Changes Coming to DoD’s Mentor-Protege Program
The Senate held a cloture vote ended debate on the bill, allowing a final passage vote on a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown.
Source: Senate fails to avert government shutdown – FederalNewsRadio.com