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Germany’s Ministry of Defence Loses Top Procurement Official

Mar 16, 2018
It was announced this week that the senior official in charge of reforming Germany’s defence procurement processes is leaving her post, which according to Chanel NewsAsia is a setback for the attempts in place to bring order to military buying after repeated cost overruns. She was heavily relied...

Publishing Data on Government Contracts – The Shortfall and How To Fix It

Mar 16, 2018
Research by the UK’s Open Contracting Partnership, and OpenOpps, an open data start-up analysing government contracting, shows that of about 450 public contracts of the 208 public bodies spending money with Carillion, less than 50 public contract notices could be verified by searching all of the...

SmallGovCon Week In Review: March 12-16, 2018

Mar 16, 2018
This is a month my office (which represents several different teams) gets excited for. The first week of March Madness is here, which means you may have found yourself being less productive than usual–don’t worry, that’s expected! But even during a time as captivating as the NCAA tournament,...

When Things Go Wrong in Procurement: 5 Tips on What to Do

Mar 15, 2018
Over the course of the last decade, a lot has changed in public procurement. Among other developments, international organizations have gotten more involved in public procurement policy, creating toolkits (think O.E.C.D in Paris), and standardizing how procurement is integrated in national...

Meet the Contracting Folks Who Are Encouraging New IT Vendors

Mar 15, 2018
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...

WOSB Status & Task Orders: Underlying Contract Usually Governs

Mar 14, 2018
Under a multiple award contract, the underlying contract ordinarily governs whether a contractor qualifies as a woman-owned small business for purposes of task or delivery orders. As demonstrated in a recent SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals decision, if a company qualifies as a WOSB or EDWOSB at...

How Much Detail Should Buyers Have When Assessing Bids?

Mar 13, 2018
A recent outsourced services company’s unfair dismissals in a UK prison have raised more procurement-related questions. So here are two good questions you could use in your tender evaluation processes, particularly for complex outsourced services contracts that have a major “people...

Advice for CIOs on Modernizing IT Through MGT Opportunities

Mar 12, 2018
Writing in his regular Reporter’s Notebook column for Federal News Radio, Jason Miller shares advice from former CIO and public sector technology leaders on how agencies should begin the work of applying for modernization funding, either through the central account or via their own agency working...

GAO: Past Performance Evaluation Not Required In LPTA Set-Aside Competition

Mar 12, 2018
An agency was not required to evaluate past performance under an SDVOSB set-aside solicitation that contemplated making award to the lowest-price, technically-acceptable offeror. According to a recent GAO bid protest decision, a past performance evaluation in the context of an LPTA set-aside is...

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