Trump Signs Modernizing Government Technology Act Into Law
Dec 13, 2017
The Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act became law this week as part of the National Defense Authorization Act signed by President Trump. The move fulfills a more than year-long effort to allow federal agencies to reprogram unused budget allocation to fund future IT modernization projects....
GSA Awards 80 Small Businesses Spot on $15 Billion Alliant 2 GWAC Vehicle
Dec 11, 2017
The General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded 80 companies positions on the small business track of a potential 10-year, $15 billion governmentwide contract vehicle for information technology platforms and services. GSA listed the winners on the Alliant 2 Small Business GWAC in a pre-award...
Acquisition Actions for Cloud Services Picking Up Speed
Dec 11, 2017
Seven years after the Office of Management and Budget directed agencies to consider moving to the cloud, agencies finally are ready to pick up the pace. The General Services Administration (GSA) issued several acquisition notices for cloud computing services and others, like the departments of...
SmallGovCon Week In Review: December 4-8, 2017
Dec 8, 2017
I am back in the office after a great time at the 2017 National Veterans Small Business Engagement in St. Louis. I was able to see many familiar faces and meet many new ones. A big thanks to everyone who attended my presentation on the nonmanufacturer rule and visited the Koprince...
Census Moves Forward After $283 Million Contract Dispute
Dec 7, 2017
AT&T, the company that filed the protest, reached a deal to work as a subcontractor on Census operations. A Census official told the Government Accountability Office that AT&T would no longer contest the $283 million mobile contract awarded to CDW-G, and instead, the companies reached an agreement...
Senate Confirms New DHS, GSA Chiefs
Dec 7, 2017
Kirstjen Nielsen was confirmed to lead the Department of Homeland Security, while Emily Murphy was confirmed as administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA). Nielsen will be the first cyber professional to head the agency, leading efforts to coordinate cybersecurity of privately owned...
Public Sector Purchasing Bodies Join in Largest Water Framework Agreement
Dec 7, 2017
Earlier this year, the UK Crown Commercial Service joined forces with public sector procurement arm YPO, The Energy Consortium, the ESPO, NEPO procurement arms, West Mercia Energy and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to bring the largest public sector water framework agreement to the UK market....
GSA Gets Extension in FBI Headquarters Search
Dec 5, 2017
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works will allow for an extension to unveil a revised Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters plan. In return, the General Services Administration and the FBI will be asked to provide more detail on how they will finance the 2.1...
Unbalanced Government Spending for IoT
Dec 5, 2017
Unfortunately for smaller innovative vendors and the civilian sector of the federal government, much of the IoT spending is consolidated within the Department of Defense and among a few large vendors. FCW examines how civilian agencies can increase their participation in this innovation wave and...
It Is Time for Public Sector Attitudes Towards Cyber Insurance To Change
Dec 1, 2017
CPO (chief privacy officer) magazine – providing data privacy, protection and cyber security news and insights – highlights the growing perils of hackers and malicious attacks on public sector organisations. “The last decade has seen attacks driven by ideology, greed and in some cases simple...
Unique Series of Short Videos on Successful Innovation Procurement Implementations from eafip
Dec 1, 2017
The eafip initiative has created a series of short videos showcasing successful European innovation procurement implementations. They feature individuals, including both public procurers and suppliers, talking about how they successfully developed and put into practice innovation procurement...
Public Sector Organisations in Changing Approach to Delivering Services Online
Dec 1, 2017
GOSS, web and digital platform company, has produced its third Public Sector Digital Self-Service Survey covering 2017-18. It is one of the UK’s largest surveys of its kind. The 200-plus individuals (of CEOs, IT managers, procurers and purchasers) from 179 Public Sector organisations contributing...
Perspectives and Insights
We have some other written articles around the issues of lots and lotting (splitting up their contract requirements into smaller contracts), and …
One major trend over the past twenty years in public procurement has been the greater centralization of procurement activity. Conceptually and practically, collaborative procurement is …
Think you know all about public sector owned professional buying organisations (PBOs) and what they do? Here are ten interesting facts that might just surprise …
Policies and Regulations
A few months back, we published several articles about the very interesting – and somewhat shocking – court case around the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning …
The Procurement of Innovation Platform aims to make public procurement of innovation a widespread reality in Europe. The Platform has been developed to help public …
Why Evaluation in Public Procurement is Important If the phrase “bid evaluation” makes you cringe, don’t worry: you’re not alone. If …