Ahead of Thanksgiving, Onvia found 5 public sector bids and RFPs for turkey-related products and services that businesses can take advantage of.
Source: 5 Government Contracting Opportunities for Thanksgiving
Government Accountability Office auditors found that almost none of the contracts and grants data posted to USASpending was consistent with agency records.
Source: Paula Rascona: GAO says agencies not meeting DATA Act requirements
We are tracking two major contracts expected to drop next year; the Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland (FLASH 2.0) solicitation and the HRSA Evaluation Studies IDIQ contract. Get more details on these two opportunities and Red Team’s take below.
Source: Red Team & Berenzweig November Newsletter | Upcoming Contracts
You’ve served your country with pride. Now, as a government contractor, it’s only fair that you get your piece of the pie. Here are five things you should know about the government’s contracting programs for veteran-owned small businesses and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses:
The Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 requires that the Comptroller General (i.e. the GAO or Government Accountability Office) report to Congress each instance in which a federal agency did not fully implement one of its recommendations in connection with a bid protest decided in the prior fiscal year and each instances in which a final decision in a protest was not rendered within 100 days after the protest was filed.
SOURCE: GAO Publishes Fiscal Year 2017 Bid Protest Statistics
Krista Farrell of NASPO spoke with Onvia’s market research team to discuss the outlook for state government purchasing in 2018.
Source: The State Government Purchasing Outlook: Q&A with Krista Ferrell
Kevin DeSanto, managing partner at KippsDeSanto, discusses how the current mergers and acquisitions environment is impacting government contractors.
Doing business with the government? Onvia’s research team uncovered the states with high rates of growth in government bids and RFPs for Q3 2017.
Source: Which States Had More Government Bids and RFPs in Q3 2017?
This month, we are breaking down a protest filed by Centerra Group LLC. Centerra, the incumbent contractor, filed a protest in response to their loss of a base operations support services contract issued by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and awarded to Kellogg Brown & Root Services, Inc. (KBR). Centerra had three arguments against this decision, but one in particular, stood out to us. They argued that the Navy should have awarded the Centerra proposal additional strengths, and as a result it should have received a higher technical rating.
Source: Red Team & Berenzweig November Newsletter | Key Protest Decisions
The Court of Federal Claims recently issued an opinion that defines “unconditional ownership” of an SDVOSB in a more relaxed manner than the SBA, creating a split of authority on the issue.
SOURCE: Federal Court Interprets SDVOSB “Unconditional Ownership” Less Strictly Than SBA
