GSA names winners of first OASIS Small Business on-ramp — Washington Technology
The General Services Administration has added 31 companies to the second pool of the almost $60 billion OASIS Small Business contract.
Source: GSA names winners of first OASIS Small Business on-ramp — Washington Technology
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Section 809 Panel Issues First Report
The Section 809 Panel released its first of three reports this week. This 642 page tome can be downloaded here. The Section 809 Panel, you will recall, was named for Section 809 of the 2016 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) from which it gained its status and authority. Its objective is to make recommendations that will enable DoD to more consistently buy what it needs in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Section 809 Panel Issues First Report
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DoD memo starts to cleave its acquisition office in half, reassigns workforce – FederalNewsRadio.com
Defense acquisition civilian personnel will see no changes in their title, series or grade as the Defense Department begins to cleave the office of acquisition, technology and logistics in half on Feb. 1.
A Jan. 31 memo obtained by Federal News Radio and signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan outlines just how the Pentagon will split its acquisition office into an office of research and engineering and an office of acquisition and sustainment. Congress mandated the split in the 2017 defense authorization act.
Source: DoD memo starts to cleave its acquisition office in half, reassigns workforce – FederalNewsRadio.com
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Contractor Gets Caught Misrepresenting its Veteran Ownership Status
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.
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2017: A procurement year in transition – FederalNewsRadio.com
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
Date: March 22, 2018 at 11:20 am
Location: Cobb Energy Performance Arts Center (CEPAC), AtlantaThis 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
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
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
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Joseph Petrillo: What does it mean to be a small business?
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.
Source: Joseph Petrillo: What does it mean to be a small business?
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Alliant 2 Small Business bogged down by size standard appeals — FCW
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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