A New Report Highlights Procurement Innovation Hubs That May Help Achieve White House Equity Goals
The Partnership for Public Service report identified specific case studies across the federal procurement community that modeled collaboration and could advance White House policies on equity, sustainability and modernization.
NASA Asks How to Better Advance Equity Through its Spending Power
This request for information furthers two executive orders from President Biden.
Veteran Deaths Lead Lawmakers to Call for VA to Renegotiate Oracle EHR Contract
Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester said that VA should “negotiate an entirely new contract” with Oracle Cerner following the revelation that the EHR system has resulted in the deaths of four veterans.
Innovation Thrives When Governments Embrace Next-Gen Public-Private Partnerships
By rethinking how sectors collaborate and encouraging long-term institutional relationships, communities can get the most out of technology projects, one expert said.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Unveils Initiatives Aimed at Small and Midsized Operations
Tom Vilsack also discussed creating a new “seed liaison” in the department to increase fairness in the commodity biotech industry, and proposed changes to the Packers and Stockyards Act.
99% of Women-Owned Businesses Say the Federal Government Hasn’t Done Enough to Support Them, Survey Finds
Women-owned small businesses say they are “not a priority” for the federal government as entrepreneurs continue to share frustration in getting shut out of funding and contracts.
GSA Seeks Commercial Procurement Data Solution
The agency is looking for a dashboard and reporting system that can also check for data errors or inconsistencies.
OIG Finds Oversight Issues With GSA's Performance-Based Contracts
GSA contracting personnel produced performance reports that were "often incomplete or not available at all," according to a new inspector general's audit.
More Changes to Come on the ‘Made in America’ Front
President Biden announced new proposed standards during his recent State of the Union address.
Inflation, Workforce Issues Challenge Defense Contractors Amid Security Pivot
The defense industrial base is facing workforce and inflationary headwinds just as the U.S. is refocusing its strategic lens on competition with China and Russia.
How do You Oversee Money That's Hard to Track?
The Project on Government Oversight's Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette joins the podcast to discuss how to minimize fraud in government spending.
House Lawmakers Want VA's $20 Billion-Plus Electronic Health Record Program to Improve or Else
Senior Republicans on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee are backing legislation to end the troubled program to replace the Veterans Affairs Department's homegrown electronic health record system with commercial software from Oracle-Cerner -- unless the program can hit performance targets and satisfy top hospital officials.
The Federal Government Can Use Its Buying Power to Help the Environment and Save Taxpayers Money
Even small shifts in procurement rules that encourage reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will have a ripple effect.
FAA Attributes Ground-Stop Glitch To Contractor Error
The agency said there is no evidence of a cyberattack or malicious intent behind last week's system outage.
OMB Streamlines Contracting Officer Training with Certification Update
The update marks the first change to the certification process since 2014
The White House Will Require Agency Labor Advisors to Oversee Federal Contractors
Following through on a recommendation from a White House task force on empowering workers, administration officials said the 24 largest agencies must designate labor advisors, and strongly encouraged smaller agencies to do the same.
5 States Challenged the Federal Contractor Wage Increase and Lost
But this may not be the end of the dispute, which stems from an April 2021 executive order.
Inflation Costs Present Both Barrier, Opportunity For Contractors In 2023
With a fiscal 2023 federal budget in-hand, contractors face both the prospect of a robust year and countervailing cost trends, Deltek says.
Omnibus Funding Bill Includes $50M for the Technology Modernization Fund, $90M for the Citizen Services Fund
Funding levels for the tech modernization vehicles fell short of Biden administration requests.
Pentagon Awards $9B Cloud Contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle
The Pentagon has awarded its JEDI cloud contract replacement.
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