Thirty-one percent of the approximately 1,200 .gov domains failed to migrate to the HTTPS communications protocol by New Year’s Eve, as mandated by the Office of Management and Budget in June 2015.
Source: 30 percent of agencies fail to migrate to HTTPS protocol before deadline — Washington Technology
Steve Kelman suggests that satellite launches hold a lesson — and a warning — for the future of IT acquisition.
Source: A smoking gun for government contracting — will it be in Trump’s crosshairs? — FCW
The Labor Department took strong action against two companies that it said has cheated workers.
The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act requires the GAO to prepare a report on the DoD’s use of indefinite delivery contracts, with a focus on enhancing
Source: 2017 NDAA Requires Report on Indefinite Delivery Contracts – SmallGovCon
An emailed proposal was deemed late because it was too large for the agency’s server–even though the solicitation didn’t identify a file size limit.
Source: Undisclosed Agency File Size Limit Sinks Offeror’s Proposal – SmallGovCon
Vendors shouldn’t be wasting anytime in engaging customers and finding way to help them through the transition and beyond. Here are six actions you should take.
Source: 6 ways to transition to the Trump administration — Washington Technology
Here’s a quick roundup of the major IT awards that came out during the holiday break.
Source: 2016 ends with flurry of contract awards — Washington Technology
We’re beginning to think that Congress believes that the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) has become a stumbling block to efficient and effective Government contracting practices. Last week in discussing Sec. 820 of the 2017 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act), we noted a provision that will effectively eliminate DCAA from auditing indirect costs in favor of privatization. DCAA can still audit the direct costs but will have no role in auditing indirect costs. We’re not sure how that will work out in practice however. One cannot develop indirect expense rates without auditing both direct and indirect costs. Someone, either the independent public accountant or DCAA is going to have to marry up the two sides to come up with final rates. And, most likely, the two organizations will be on different auditing cycles which may be the undoing of the entire concept.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: DCAA Gets Cut Off at the Pass – Again
