Fowler General Construction holds a contract to build a new “Collaboration Center” at PNNL’s (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s) campus in Richland, WA. Taxpayers spend about $1 billion per year to Battelle Memorial Institute to operate the Lab for the Department of Energy.
The FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations) is now available for free in the Amazon Kindle Bookstore. With this version, you can highlight text, bookmark sections, and send quotes by email – features you’re already familiar with if you use Kindle.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: FAR is Now Available for Kindle – Free
In accordance with Executive Order (EO) 13777, Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda, the Department of Defense (DoD) Regulatory Reform Task Force is seeking input on DFARS (the DoD FAR Supplement) solicitation provisions and contract clauses that may be appropriate for repeal, replacement, or modification. Interested parties have 60 days in which to submit written recommendations or comments.
GSA recently announced that it had added approximately 500 qualified industry partners to its GSA 8(a) STARS II Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). The 8(a) STARS II GWAC is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract engineered to provide federal agencies flexible sources of IT services and IT services-based solutions including computer programming services, computer systems design services, computer facilities management services, and other computer related services.
One thing well known about fraudulent activity is that fraud involving collusion is one of the hardest to detect and prevent. It is extremely difficult to design a system of internal controls that can or woulds be effective in preventing or discouraging collusion from happening. A simple internal control that requires two signatures on each check is ineffective if the two signatures conspire to both sign a check to a fictitious company and then split the proceeds.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: “Steering Contracts” Results in Guilty Plea
It seems like only yesterday that we were discussing a provision within the 2017 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) that gives defense contractors the authority to retain commercial auditors to perform incurred cost audits and have DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) accept the results without performing additional audits.
Yesterday we began unpacking a GAO (Government Accountability Office) bid protest decision involving OCI (Organizational Conflict of Interest) assertions by Accenture against IBM. If you missed Part 1, go here to read it. Also, if you want to read the decision yourself, you can find the entire bid protest decision here.
For the past two days, we have been discussing a GAO (Government Accountability Office) bid protest decision involving OCI (Organizational Conflict of Interest) assertions by Accenture against IBM. If you missed Parts 1 and 2 of this series, go here to begin reading. Also, if you want to read the decision yourself, you can find the entire bid protest decision here.
The Army issued a task order contract to IBM Corporation to support, sustain, and maintain its General Fund Enterprise Business System. Accenture Federal Services, LLC (Accenture) protested the award to IBM for a number of reasons including the argument that IBM had an impermissible organization conflict of interest that should render it ineligible for award.
An active duty Colonel working out of Ft. Gordon, GA, his wife, and a high ranking employee of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, a $600+ million company with mostly Government work, were indicted this week by a Federal grand jury for their alleged roles in a bribery and kickback scheme.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: Another Bribery/Kickback Scheme Uncovered
