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Ensuring Small Businesses Representation: Enforce the Rules
The issue of subcontracts management is a badly needed topic that has gotten little attention recently, either through proposed legislation, or anywhere else. I attended the Acquisition Excellence 2012...
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Service Contract Inventories: Missed Opportunities For Transparency
Last month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report in April 2012 detailing a continuing issue at the Department of Defense (DoD) that is not foreign across government; the...
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Smaller Piece Of The Pie For Small Businesses
With the end of the fiscal year upon us, the “feeding frenzy,” as I like to call it, is in full swing. With possible sweeping budgets on the horizon through sequestration, and overall declines in...
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Contractors and Procurement Officials: Customer Service Is A Two Way Street
There seems to be a development that is coming more and more to the forefront: the case of the out-of-control Contracting Officer (KO). There are usually two paths to interactions with a KO, one being...
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DHS Rule to “Protect” Small Businesses – Thanks for Nothing
Federal Computer Week reported on a proposed change to the Homeland Security Acquisition Regulation, the supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),...
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Buying In Now Effectively Policy Across Government
In a recent breakfast hosted by the Coalition for Government Procurement, Administrator Joe Jordan effectively punted on the notion of best value versus the realities of federal procurement; lowest...
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Small Businesses as Primes: Beware the Scorpion
As the 2012 Fiscal Year comes to a close, procurement shops are in full gear awarding contracts in the shadow of sequestration. Many large firms are also trying to close business after months of...
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