Small Business Status: Ongoing Fiscal Year Usually Isn’t Included – SmallGovCon
For purposes of determining small business status under a receipts-based NAICS code, the SBA ordinarily doesn’t consider the company’s ongoing fiscal year. A recent SBA OHA decision explains.
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Fastest 5 Minutes, The Podcast Gov’t Contractors Can’t Do Without – Government Contracts Legal Forum
This week’s episode covers tariff news, bid protest news, and bridge contract news, and is hosted by partner David Robbins. 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 |… Continue Reading
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Best deals of 2018 already happening — Washington Technology
Merger-and -acquisition activity in the government market is not static, so while looking back at the deals that closed in 2017, it also is important to look forward at what the year ahead will bring.
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March Monthly Insights Newsletter | Top 5 GovCon Events
There are tons of valuable government contracting events in the DC metro area, from networking happy hours to training seminars to opportunity overviews. We narrowed down the top 5 that we think you should attend in the upcoming weeks.
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Who made the year’s best deals? — Washington Technology
During 2017, more than 100 mergers and acquisitions closed in the government market and were transformative events for the companies involved.
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GSA Awards Contracts for IT ‘Centers of Excellence’ – FedTech
The White House-backed initiative aims to help agencies modernize technology around five key areas.
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White House push to modernize government IT picks up speed with GSA contract awards – Washington Business Journal
ICF Inc. and SIE Consulting Group are among the companies selected for five contracts to set up “centers of excellence” to guide IT modernization initiatives.
Meet the contracting folks who are encouraging new IT vendors — FCW
When interviewing non-traditional IT vendors in the federal marketplace for a series of blogs, I asked how they decided what agencies to target. A common answer was that they chose based on whether a sympathetic contracting officer was present. So — not the least to provide tips to contracting folks who want to encourage new vendors entering the marketplace — I decided to talk to two of the contracting officials the new vendors mentioned to me: Mark Junda of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Dan Levenson of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to find out what they did to encourage new vendors.
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Modernizing Government IT Is Not Just About Technology – FedTech
Agency CIOs must be empowered and focus on enterprise-wide changes to truly move IT systems into the 21st century.
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M&A in government contracting is off to a torrid start – Washington Business Journal
There were 60 transactions through the first two months of the year among aerospace, defense and government services companies and the activity shows no signs of slowing down.
Source: M&A in government contracting is off to a torrid start – Washington Business Journal