The award of the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) telecommunications contract to 10 vendors sounded the starting gun of what traditionally has been an arduous, costly and sometimes contemptuous transition process to a new governmentwide contract.
Source: 3 ways GSA is trying to ease the transition to the new telecom contract – FederalNewsRadio.com
The Justice Department announced yesterday that a defense contractor pleaded guilty to repairing, rather than replacing, parts used on Apache helicopters.
Data.gov recently updated its Metrics page to provide greater detail and transparency to the progress of the Data.gov catalog.
Justice Department cites 100-plus phony federal employment applications.
Source: Ex-GSA Contracting Official Gets Prison Time for Nepotism – Contracting – GovExec.com
Attention education vendors looking for new territories to expand their sales – there’s growing opportunity in the Beehive State!
Utah may soon shed its status as the worst state in public funds spent per student. For several years, it has been 51st—behind all states and the District of Columbia. In March, Utah lawmakers upped state spending as they had a windfall of revenues.
Source: Education Vendors: Utah Schools Get a Boost in Educational Funding | Onvia
A loan must be “bona fide” to reduce the net worth of an applicant to the SBA 8(a) Program, according to a recent SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals decision.
Source: 8(a) Program: Loan Must Be “Bona Fide” To Reduce Net Worth – SmallGovCon
Agencies won’t have much new funding in their upcoming budgets, but they must still find ways to update their IT.
Source: How to Modernize in the Age of Flat Budgets | FedTech Magazine
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Department of Homeland Security’s Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland procurement — a $1.5 billion IDIQ for agile software development services. DHS attracted about 100 vendors to participate in a “tech demo,” where each came in to work on an actual project for half a day, which replaced proposal writing. The FLASH award was protested by some of the losers, and DHS eventually decided some of the criticisms had merit — though they represented honest mistakes — and cancelled the procurement.
Onvia on Tuesday launched a new service for companies selling to the public sector. The service provides access to detailed materials associated with a given solicitation, including all submitted proposals, the awarded bid, the final contract, and the agency’s scoring criteria. Onvia “helps clients succeed in pursuing government contracts,” said Ben Vaught, director of Onvia for Government.
Source: New Service Promises Help Winning Government Contracts | Sales | E-Commerce Times
In a recent ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Federal Claims said the Army went a little too far in trying to be fair to bidders on the latest recompete of its Army Desktop Mobile and Computing contract vehicle. After the initial bids came in from 58 separate companies, the Army deemed just nine of them technically acceptable. So it decided to reopen the competition, including by letting companies submit new prices, in order to ward off 21 separate bid protests. Joseph Petrillo, a procurement attorney with the law firm Petrillo and Powell, explains the ruling on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Source: Joseph Petrillo: Army went too far on fair bidding contract – FederalNewsRadio.com
