A contractor’s email placed conditions on the contract it had been awarded–and caused the contract to be rescinded.
Source: Contractor’s Email Leads to Lost Contract, Denied Protest – SmallGovCon
The Veterans Affairs Department is facing a lawsuit over a multibillion dollar contract and the president threatening to shut the government down if there’s no funding for the border wall. No wonder contractors are more nervous than ever. David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, offers his take on the latest in federal contracting on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Source: David Berteau: What’s the state of federal contracting? – FederalNewsRadio.com
The Department of Commerce and the Office of the United States Trade Representative are conducting industry outreach to better understand how the government’s procurement obligations under free trade agreements and the World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement affect manufacturer and supplier access to the domestic government procurement process.
Source: Comments on Impact of FTAs on Procurement Markets Requested | Government Contracts Blog
Onvia has just released its next-generation sales intelligence platform for businesses selling to the government. Onvia 8 is designed to help users act faster on government contract leads and grow their sales to the public sector.
Source: Introducing Onvia 8, Our Next-Generation Sales Intelligence Platform | Onvia
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WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND: A 2015 Microsoft study found that digital distractions have resulted in the average person having an 8-second attention span, less than a goldfish! A 2016 Harvard Business Review article stated that bad writing is the biggest productivity buster. Yet, we still write proposals the old-fashioned way, as if our evaluators have unlimited time and focus. This webinar will discuss how to modernize our proposal writing to win in the digital age, using persuasive, attention-grabbing techniques such as calls to action, exceeding expectations, and clearly relevant writing.
MEET YOUR PRESENTER: Lisa Pafe, Vice President (VP) at Lohfeld Consulting Group, CPP APMP Fellow and PMP, has 25+ years’ capture and proposal experience. She is President of the APMP-National Capital Area (NCA) Chapter, and was VP and Speaker Series Chair for 2 years each. She holds a BA from Yale University, MPP from Harvard University, and MIS from The George Washington University. She is a frequent speaker, blogger, and trainer on a wide range of capture and proposal topics.
Former Vice President, Joe Biden, once said “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” These words ring true as budgets not only can tell us what we value today, but also what we presume will valuable in the future.
Source: What IT Spending Forecasts Tell Us About the Future of IT – InformationWeek
Well, it looks like more of DCAA’s (Defense Contract Audit Agency) is going away. The FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) Councils are about ready to raise the audit threshold for termination settlement proposals.
The SBA is considering changes to modernize and improve its socioeconomic certification programs, particularly the 8(a) Program and HUBZone Program.
Like a bad stretch of roadway, the defense procurement system vexes generation after generation of federal and contractor practitioners. Undaunted, the Section 809 Panel, named for the defense authorization act paragraph that chartered it, has been working hard at recommendations for comprehensive reform. Section 809 Panel Commissioner David Drabkin gives Federal Drive with Tom Temin a progress report.
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Source: David Drabkin: Progress report on DoD procurement reform – FederalNewsRadio.com
It took federal agencies’ four years to go from introduction to implementation of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, so what will it take to get 2,300 grant-making programs and 3,200 procurement offices to do the same?
Source: A ‘big challenge’ ahead for procurement, grants reporting under DATA Act