July 2017

President Donald Trump’s signature campaign promise to build a wall on the southern border faces delays due to a bid protest. The White House said construction on prototypes for the wall will have to wait until November because of two companies who were not selected for further consideration. The contractors selected will have to create 30-foot long samples of the wall they would build. (Associated Press)

Source: Trump administration’s border wall project on hold due to bid protests – FederalNewsRadio.com

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.

On Oct. 7, 2016, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued a draft Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular, Implementing Category Management for Common Goods and Services. The circular sought to establish “key principles, and strategies and policies, roles and responsibilities, and metrics to measure success” for category management (CM) across the government. Best-in-class criteria for contracts was one of the key policies set forth in the circular.

Source: Best-in-class contracts: Where is the classroom? – FederalNewsRadio.com

This week on “Amtower Off Center”, host Mark Amtower interviews best-selling business author and speaker David Meerman Scott.  Scott’s The New Rules of Marketing and PRjust went into its 6th edition.

Topics include:

• the power and reach of web 2.0 tools and tactics
• the long tail of the web
• how good content can drive traffic for large and small companies
• how to leverage newsjacking
• sonic branding

Source: New rules of marketing & PR – FederalNewsRadio.com