Teaching Suppliers How to Win in Federal Contracting
Jun 22, 2017
Nancy Alvarez manages the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Dallas-Fort Wort District’s 8(a) Business Development program and offers her insights on opening doors to contracts with federal agencies nationwide. “But you have to be ready,” she says. Due to estimated budget increases, now...
Trump Kicks off American Technology Council with High Powered Working Session
Jun 21, 2017
Yesterday marked the inaugural meeting of the Trump administration’s American Technology Council, as executives from some of America’s leading tech companies convened in the West Wing to “transform and modernize” federal IT and advise the president on tech policy. “We’re embracing big...
In Exascale Computing, a ‘Million Trillion’ Is Actually a Thing
Jun 21, 2017
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded grants to six companies to further its Exascale Computing Project, an initiative to build a supercomputer that would run 50 times faster than current supercomputers. A total of $258 million in research and development grants will be divided amongst each...
S&L Procurement Efforts are Struggling, Here’s Why
Jun 21, 2017
The latest survey of government procurement professionals from intelligence firm Onvia show that state and local governments are struggling with insufficient time to prepare solicitations, short staffing, and difficulties with collaboration. According to Route Fifty, “Response agility, customer...
Brexit’s Impact on UK Public Procurement a Year Later
Jun 21, 2017
A year after Britain voted to leave the European Union, it is still unclear how trade deals will impact public procurement. The European Parliament published a paper, Consequences of Brexit in the Area of Public Procurement, that outlines four possible relationship models for British companies...
Major Updates Underway for Federal Procurement Website
Jun 21, 2017
The General Services Administration (GSA) may be revamping FedBizOpps.gov, the website where agencies publish solicitations, which many have said is long overdue for an overhaul. GSA issued the RFQ through the Alliant Small Business government-wide acquisition contract back in December, with bids...
Raytheon Awarded $1B DHS DOMino Cyber Contract
Jun 21, 2017
A five-year, $1 billion cybersecurity contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is moving forward after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has denied a protest brought by Northrop. The contract to run its DOMino program was awarded to Raytheon, whose CEO Tom Kennedy told...
U.S. Survey of Government Procurement Professionals – Findings Will Ring True with Europe, Too!
Jun 21, 2017
Yesterday, June 20, data intelligence firm Onvia released its second annual Survey of Government Procurement Professionals, which can be downloaded here. This is a US-based report, but as we said last year “while this survey garners intelligence from 500-plus government procurement...
STARS II Adds Small Businesses
Jun 20, 2017
The Federal Times report that more than 500 qualified small businesses have joined the General Services Administration’s (GSA) 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services (STARS) II Government-wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC), bringing the total number of vendors to more than...
DHS Authorization Act
Jun 20, 2017
For the first time since Congress established the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2002, the House is looking to reauthorize the agency. The DHS Authorization Act of 2017 was reported out of the House Homeland Security Committee late last week. Much of the legislation has been voted on in...
Is Government Cost-Cutting Really Starting To Hurt the UK?
Jun 20, 2017
A series of terrible events in the UK in the past few weeks has put the spotlight on government expenditure, as well as raising many other issues of course. The Manchester bombing at the Arianne Grande concert, the London Bridge terrorist attack, and the tragic fire in west London have all led to...
The Future of FAS and TTS
Jun 20, 2017
While some have criticized the General Services Administration (GSA) for moving its year-old Technology Transform Service (TTS) under the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), Council for Government Procurement President Roger Waldron says it’s a “positive” step and potentially a...
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Perspectives and Insights
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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 …