An agency backdated a market research memorandum to support its defense of a bid protest–and the Court of Federal Claims wasn’t happy about it.
Source: Agency Faces Sanctions For Backdating Market Research – SmallGovCon
In today’s Top Federal Headlines, the Follow the Rules Act gets through the House. The legislation tidies up a few loopholes in laws protecting whistleblowers at federal agencies.
Source: House passes enhancement to Whistleblower Protections Act – FederalNewsRadio.com
The Trump Administration’s first 100 days passed this weekend and the period has certainly sparked a lively conversation in the DC region about the impact on the government contracting community and the almost $500 billion per year market to provide goods and services to the US government.
Construction is poised to see an explosion in government contracting. Thanks to the renewed focus around infrastructure investment, construction companies have the opportunity to accelerate their sales to the government – but only if they are up to date on recent contracting trends and best practices.
Source: 7 Must-Attend Conferences to Win More Construction Contracts | Onvia
The Trump administration has most of Washington on the edge of their seats waiting to see what comes next, and federal contracting is no different.
Source: 8 trends to keep ahead of in federal contracting – FederalNewsRadio.com
President Trump is launching a special council to upgrade the U.S. government’s IT services. “Americans deserve better digital services from their government,” the executive order, released on Monday, said.
Source: Trump seeks to upgrade US government IT services | CIO
The omnibus spending bill includes $516.1 billion in base Pentagon spending and another $76.6 billion for emergency wartime funding.
Civilian agencies are largely spared from the deep cuts the White House originally offered as a way to offset an $18 billion proposal for more military spending and additional funds to pay for President Donald Trump’s wall along the southern border.
Source: Most civilian agencies saved from deep spending cuts in FY17 budget bill
Many clients in the start-up service contracting business to the federal government have recently experienced DCAA audit difficulties, suspended billings or negative marks on pricing proposals for not having addressed job cost accounting and business system issues involving Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) requirements. This article will address the basics of resolving those issues in a service contracting start-up environment.
Source: SMALL BUSINESS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING (SBFGC): SMALL BUSINESS JOB COST ACCOUNTING BASICS
A VA Class Deviation would severely restrict the use of nonmanufacturer rule waivers in VA SDVOSB and VOSB procurements.
Source: VA Class Deviation Restricts SDVOSB Nonmanufacturers – SmallGovCon
