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February 2018 - page 9

Contractor Gets Caught Misrepresenting its Veteran Ownership Status

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There have been so many ‘rent-a-vet’ schemes uncovered and prosecuted lately that we’re surprised that companies continue to think the risks are low enough that they won’t get caught. In fact, uncovering ‘rent-a-vet’ schemes seems to be one of the easiest contract frauds to detect. Its like picking the “low-hanging fruit” as one former auditor would often quip.

Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Contractor Gets Caught Misrepresenting its Veteran Ownership Status

2017: A procurement year in transition – FederalNewsRadio.com

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This week Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, joins Off the Shelf for a look back at 2017, a procurement year in transition, and a look at the year ahead.

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Proposal development in an increasingly automated world | APMP SPAC 2018 Presentation | Lohfeld

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Date: March 22, 2018 at 11:20 am
Location: Cobb Energy Performance Arts Center (CEPAC), Atlanta

This interactive panel will explore automation as it relates to proposal management across fields, from the point of view of multiple generations and proposal disciplines. Panelists come from different perspectives, functions, and industries to appeal to a wide audience and address challenges from across the profession. With the large body of work available within large companies, or open source sets, a good machine-learning algorithm could consume, learn, and write proposal language. As computers get better to the extent that they can actually accomplish tasks satisfactorily, what roles do we carve for ourselves as proposal professionals?

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Category management: Measures & metrics – FederalNewsRadio.com

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This week on Off the Shelf, Ray Bjorklund of Birch Grove Consulting, trains his analytical lens on the current state of category management.

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All Things Protest: The Inaugural Podcast – Government Contracts Legal Forum

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Crowell & Moring’s “All Things Protest” podcast keeps you up to date on major trends in bid protest litigation, key developments in high-profile cases, and best practices in state and federal procurement. In this inaugural episode, hosts Olivia Lynch, Rob Sneckenberg, and Christian Curran cover GAO’s FY2017 bid protest statistics, the RAND Corp.’s comprehensive report on DoD protests, bid protest reform in the FY2018 NDAA, and the ongoing work of the Section 809 Panel.

You can find the materials discussed in this episode here.

Source: All Things Protest: The Inaugural Podcast – Government Contracts Legal Forum

Joseph Petrillo: What does it mean to be a small business?

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It’s not always easy being a small business. More precisely, it’s not necessarily easy to figure out whether you are a small business for purposes of federal contracting. It all depends on multiple factors. Joseph Petrillo, a procurement attorney with Petrillo and Powell, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss some of the ins and outs of a recent — and illustrative — case.

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Alliant 2 Small Business bogged down by size standard appeals — FCW

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In early December, the General Services Administration released a list of 80 companies it intended to name as winners of the $15 billion Alliant 2 Small Business contract.

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Failure to Pay Subcontractors Results in Fraud Indictment

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The Justice Department announced yesterday the indictment of Chester Neal of Fresno, California on two counts of mail fraud. Two counts? That’s only a tiny fraction of the charges he is potentially facing. There is a lot more to this case than the Justice Department has so far acknowledged. And, the court documents remain sealed and unavailable to the public.

Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Failure to Pay Subcontractors Results in Fraud Indictment

SMALL BUSINESS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING (“Smalltofeds”): What is a “Compliant” Federal Government Contracting Small Business System?

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It seems the single word, “Compliance” in small business federal government contracting business systems implies many different things:

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