IT commoditization drives assisted acquisitions to focus on professional services – FederalNewsRadio.com
General Services Administration’s Assisted Acquisition Service finds itself moving away from IT and into professional services.
General Services Administration’s Assisted Acquisition Service finds itself moving away from IT and into professional services.
Federal CIOs from every Cabinet and large agency made a trip to the White House over the last month to provide a brain dump to the Trump administration.
Source: White House tech leaders conduct listen, learn with federal CIOs – FederalNewsRadio.com
In response to a chorus of implementation questions raised by the contracting community, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has announced an industry information day, during which contractors who have questions or wish to provide feedback regarding DoD’s Network Penetration Reporting and Contracting for Cloud Services final rule can raise those questions. On April 5, 2017, DoD published a notice of meeting in the Federal Register announcing the “Industry Information Day” on June 23, 2017.
A proposal was late even though it reached the government’s server by the proposal deadline, according to the GAO. But the Court of Federal Claims has a
Source: “Government Control” Didn’t Affect Electronic Proposal Timeliness, Says GAO – SmallGovCon
Homeland Security Department management said they’re now requiring documentation and life cycle cost estimations for all major acquisition programs.
Source: How DHS’ acquisition oversight strategy is picking up steam – FederalNewsRadio.com
Larry Allen makes the case that contractors could face increased liabilities because of GSA’s Transactional Data Reporting rule.
Source: Run, don’t walk, away from GSA’s transactional data reporting rule – FederalNewsRadio.com
Last month, Senator McCaskill (MO) introduced the Contractor Accountability and Transparency Act of 2017. Despite its name, the only thing it requires is for the Government to post electronic versions of all contracts over $150,000 (the simplified acquisition threshold).
… machine readable, searchable copy of each covered contract entered into by a Federal agency after the date of the enactment … posted not later than 30 days after the agency enters into the contract.
The way state and local government buys technology is changing. But how?
Source: How Government Is Reforming IT Procurement and What it Means for Vendors
With AT&T being awarded the 25-year contract to build the nationwide FirstNet system last week, here is a glimpse at the proposed milestones we may see during the next few years.
Pentagon awards rose by a surprising 7 percent in 2016, think tank says.
Source: Defense Contractors See End of Budget Decline – Contracting – GovExec.com