The General Services Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are due to solicit proposals in the summer that would move forward efforts to reform the government acquisition process, Federal News Radio reported Friday.
MoreThe General Services Administration has asked for input from other federal agencies and companies about alternative contract vehicles for the procurement of commercial cloud services, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Mohana Ravindranath writes GSA
MoreThe General Services Administration has found that use of a GSA-managed reverse auction portal grew more than 1,000 percent over the past fiscal year. Joan Kornblith, communications manager at GSA’s Federal Acquisition
MoreKatrina McFarland, assistant defense secretary for acquisition, has outlined the Defense Departmentâs technology goals amid an environment of budget uncertainty for the Pentagon, DoD News reported Thursday. McFarland called on industry to contribute to the governmentâs
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The General Services Administration hosted an industry day Tuesday to brief contractors about the agency’s new blanket purchase agreement for agile information technology services, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Jack Moore writes GSA could
MoreThe U.S. Defense Department has proposed seven legislative initiatives that seek to simplify rules governing military acquisition and program management, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jason Miller writes Frank Kendall, defense undersecretary
MoreThe Joint Chiefs of Staff has now included cybersecurity under the survivability key performance parameter for the acquisition of new defense technologies with embedded computing systems, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Sydney Freedberg Jr. writes that
MoreRep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), House Armed Services Committee chairman, aims to take an incremental legislative approach to help the Defense Department fix the agency’s procurement issues, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared
MoreThe Office of Management and Budgetâs Strategic Sourcing Leadership Council has approved 10 new marketplace categories of commonly purchased items under the governmentâs category management approach. The categories cover spending areas such
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NASA will adopt new tools intended to help government buyers to access more product and vendor information under the agency’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement program, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jason Miller
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