As the House and Senate go to conference to solve differences in the Defense authorization bill in the next few weeks, the acquisition community will be watching Section 801 of the lower chamber’s bill closely.
By a wide margin, 89-8, the U.S. Senate passed its version of the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday. The House passed its version back in July. Now conferees from the House and Senate will meet to reconcile the differences in the competing versions.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: 2018 NDAA Passed by Senate
SBA’s All Small Mentor-Protege Program is a great business assistance tool. Here are five things you should know about the SBA All Small Mentor-Protege Program.
Source: 5 Things You Should Know: SBA All-Small Mentor-Protege Program – SmallGovCon
Small companies have an array of regulations and programs to help them get federal contracts. Big companies have the resources to field large, professional federal capture teams. For contractors in the middle, life can be tougher. Paul Murphy, senior data analyst at Bloomberg Government, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the challenges of mid-tier contractors.
Source: Paul Murphy: Mid-tier contractors face unique hurdles – FederalNewsRadio.com
The award plaques from our 2016 Fastest Growing Companies event.
Source: Here are Greater D.C.’s Fastest Growing Companies of 2017 – Washington Business Journal
While best known for financial applications, blockchain has public-sector use cases that range from supply chain to public records. The General Services Administration may soon add one more, as GSA is looking into how distributed ledger technology can speed up the FASt Lane process for IT Schedule 70 contracts through automation.
Source: GSA looks to blockchain for speeding procurement processes — GCN
In our last “What is…?” post, we covered one of the basics of federal contracting: the concept of a prime contractor and subcontractors, or “primes” and “subs.” However, we left a key question unanswered – how does the government actually decide which company to award prime contracts to?
What is your fiscal 2018 Strategy?
If you are a smaller government contractor, are your plans in place? Do you have goals supported by a strategy?
If not, are you just going to continue to tread water by looking for bids to go after, or are you going to map out a strategy that gives you a better chance at winning more business?
Source: 5 tactics that will help you win in 2018 — Washington Technology
Earlier this week, the Senate passed its version of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) for fiscal year 2018. The House passed its version earlier this summer. Now the differences will need to be worked out in a joint compromise committee before it is forwarded to the President.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: 2018 NDAA – Increase in TINA Threshold
This week, IDC Government Insights announced the results of its 2017 IDC Government Top 50 Vendor Rankings. These rankings use a standardized methodology to publish the estimated IT revenue of the top vendors serving the U.S. federal government. IDC examines thousands of different federal IT contracts, and then isolates the spending by fiscal year. We send our estimates to the companies for their consideration and potential feedback.
Source: Top 50 Government IT Vendors List Announced by IDC Government Insights – IDC Community
