The union creates a player with $9.9 billion in revenue and bolsters the information systems and technology business of the Falls Church-based defense contracting giant.
Source: General Dynamics Corp. to acquire CSRA Inc. in $9.6 billion deal – Washington Business Journal
Most civilian agencies would see substantial decreases from 2017 spending.
Source: Agency-By-Agency Spending Levels Under Trump’s 2019 Budget – Management – GovExec.com
This week’s episode covers commercial items and the 809 report, and is hosted by Peter Eyre, Chris Haile, and Elizabeth Buehler. Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. Listen: Crowell.com | PodBean | SoundCloud | iTunes … Continue Reading
Source: Fastest 5 Minutes, The Podcast Gov’t Contractors Can’t Do Without – Government Contracts Legal Forum
General Dynamics has agreed to pay $6.8 billion to acquire CSRA in a deal that consolidates two of the largest players in government IT, the companies said Monday.
Source: General Dynamics buying CSRA in watershed federal IT deal — Washington Technology
The Section 809 Panel, the Department of Defense’s advisory panel on streamlining and codifying acquisition regulations, issued Volume I of its Final Report. The report contains recommendations to update DoD’s process for acquiring information technology business systems, streamline auditing requirements, address challenges in how small businesses interact with DoD, update commercial buying, clarify the definition of personal and nonpersonal services, remove statutory requirements for 13 acquisition-related DoD offices, and repeal 20 acquisition-related statutory reporting requirements.
Source: Section 809 Panel Issues Volume I of Final Report | Government Contracts Blog
The biggest surprise that came from my exclusive interview with Emily Murphy, the General Services Administration’s administrator, last week wasn’t her comfort talking about the Public Building Service and leases, or her recognition that 2017 was a tough year for the agency, or even the fact she said she would seriously look at making the schedules program more transparent to non-contract holders — one of my soapbox issues for the last decade.
Source: GSA’s Murphy sees another path to reduce commercial pricing burden on vendors
Congresswoman Norton (representing Washington DC) introduced a bill before Congress that would provide for compensation of Federal contractor employees that may be placed on unpaid leave as a result of any Federal Government shutdown. She calls it the “Low-Wage Federal Contractor Employee Back Pay Act of 2018”.
The dispute stems from a $170 million contract to replace an outdated IT system used to manage $10 billion in Medicaid payments.
After several years of divestitures and portfolio reshapings by defense contractors, three large primes have kept their IT and government services businesses, choosing to reposition and differentiate themselves in a crowded marketplace.
Source: How defense contractors are adapting to today’s demands — Defense Systems
Two of the five largest government IT contractors have reported quarterly earnings, and both offer a look at trends that will impact federal contractors in the months to come.
