By Judy Bradt, CEO Summit Insight: Time after time, I hear business owners saying, “I can never win at that Federal agency. The Contracting Officers (CO’s / KO’s) only want to work with HUBZone, 8(a), Veterans, or (soon) women-owned, businesses they can sole source to.” Don’t get … [Read more...]
Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals Rules No Relief for Fraud
By Sarah Schauerte: In the Appeal of Atlas Int’l. Trading Corp., on December 2 the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) held that a contractor’s bribery of an agency’s program manager made the contract at issue in its appeal void ab initio (“from the beginning”). As set forth in … [Read more...]
Body Worn Cameras (BWCs) in High Demand From Police Departments
Not surprisingly demand for Body Worn Cameras are in very high demand from police departments nationwide. Onvia studied the data their research uncovers daily from states, cities, and municipalities nationwide and provided a summary of what the numbers are, devoid of emotion or opinion. 'Body … [Read more...]
How Will Government Adapt?: Technology—Increasingly Everywhere
From the IBM Center for the Business of Government: Enabling technology will increase expectations and performance, while driving down costs. Technology, which has already had profound impact on government, will continue to be a game changer in the way government operates and interacts with the … [Read more...]
State and Local Agency Set Aside Opportunities
Source: Onvia - Total government spending at all levels, including state and local agencies, represents about 28% of the US GDP, or roughly $3.3 trillion (estimated for 2015). How much of this falls into the set aside category varies widely from state-to-state. State-by-State Spending State and … [Read more...]
17 Questions Everyone Should Ask At A Contract Debriefing
Article by AOC Key Solutions: You are at the post-award contract debrief. Win or lose, you search for the good, bad, and ugly about your proposal. In the past, you posed the usual questions to the government: Why did we win (or lose)? What was our score relative to other bidders–or at least the … [Read more...]
Opportunity to Watch Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCATS)
Blog by Brian Lindholm: GSA is developing a new multiple award IDIQ contract called Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTS). Actually, it isn’t truly a new requirement. Instead, HCaTS will attempt to pick up where OPM’s Training and Management Assistance Program (TMA) was once incredibly … [Read more...]
Creating a Cadre of Cross-Agency Executives
President Obama recently proposed a new White House Leadership Development Program. The goal is to expose rising leaders to the experience of solving challenges across agency boundaries. This could ultimately lead to a new capacity in government – a cadre of experienced executives who know how to … [Read more...]
Top 10 Digital Branding Trends for 2015
by Gal Borenstein E-PAYMENTS & SOCIAL MEDIA CREATE NEW CLASS OF GLOBAL- VILLAGE ENTREPRENEURS With PayPal, ApplePay and mobile marketing, combined with the democratization of content, new products will overcome local retail challenges and go global overnight. SOCIAL MEDIA BRAND MELTDOWNS … [Read more...]
The IBM Center for The Business of Government: The Year in Review, 2014
By Dan Chenok In 2014, as has been the case for each of our past 16 years, the IBM Center engaged in many significant discussions with government leaders through our weekly radio show; benefited from groundbreaking research by a wide variety of leading academics and other stakeholders in the … [Read more...]
Understanding Section M
This post was written by Kevin Jans, President and Founder of Skyway Acquisition Solutions (“Skyway”): Requests for Proposals for government contracts can be complicated. Between all the different sections, clauses, factors and sub-factors, and detailed-ish descriptions of the requirement, they … [Read more...]
Strategies for Developing Agency Relationships Throughout the Fiscal Year
Article by Lyndon Dacuan of Onvia: Beginning of the Fiscal Year - Offer a Helpful Hand At the beginning of any fiscal year, agency contacts are well into the project planning and execution stages for the new fiscal year. Budgets have been finalized and the real work begins – turning high-level … [Read more...]