Dan Keefe, the president and COO of ManTech’s Mission Solutions and Services Group, sat down with Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller at his office in Herndon, Virginia. Keefe announced March 13 that he will retire on June 30.
Source: Why the contractor-owned, contractor-operated IT model is different this time – FederalNewsRadio.com
Pentagon watchdog finds high turnover and poor training among contracting officials.
Source: Army Told to Improve Monitoring of Small Business Subcontracts – Contracting – GovExec.com
Here is a tool that contractors with CAS (Cost Accounting Standards) covered contracts might find useful.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: CAS Cost Impact Adequacy Tool
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 episode, hosts Olivia Lynch, Rob Sneckenberg, and Christian Curran cover recent protest news and an organizational conflict of interest decision that highlights the differences between the natural advantages of incumbency and a potentially problematic unequal access to information conflict.
Source: All Things Protest: Organizational Conflicts of Interest – Government Contracts Legal Forum
The $2.26 billion—which includes some maintenance—gives an idea of the scale at which modernization will take place across government.
Source: Here’s What Agencies Could Spend on IT Modernization Per 2018 Omnibus – Nextgov
Subsystem Technologies, Inc., an information technology company doing business primarily with the Defense Department and other Government agencies has been around for more than 30 years but from 2012 to 2015, nearly tripled in size to more than 220 employees. Over the years, Subsystem Technologies has been awarded “numerous” multi-million dollar contracts from the Department of Defense.
This post provides first impressions of GAO’s new Electronic Protest Docketing System.
Source: GAO’s Electronic Filing System: First Impressions – SmallGovCon
After the deal to buy CSRA Inc. is in the books, assuming it happens, there will be a new top dog in the federal technology services market, by one measure at least.
Can cities pull themselves out of a purchasing cycle that only benefits vendors?
Source: Why Are Cities Still Signing Long-term Technology Contracts? (Contributed)
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2018 increased the micro-purchase threshold from $3,000 to $10,000 and the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT) from $150,000 to $250,000 (see 2018 NDAA Sections 806 and 805 respectively). Until the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) can be formally amended, Government agencies have been authorized to issue class deviations implementing these provision. The Energy Department has already issued its class deviation to raise these thresholds and most likely, other agencies will soon issue their own class deviations.
