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GSA Planning a 3rd Courthouse in LA to “Create Vacant Space”
Recently, the US House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a report on a GSA proposal to build a courthouse in Los Angeles. At issue is the current capacity of...
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SAIC Makes Strategic Split Into Two Businesses
One of the leading IT contractors, Science Applications International Corp (SAIC), said it planned to split into two independently traded companies to bid for more contracts which they cannot do now...
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BAE-EADS Merger Talk Highlight Slow Def Spending
On Wednesday, BAE Systems and EADS announced they were in advanced merger talks. If completed, the deal would result in an aerospace company that would outsize any other in the aerospace industry in...
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Sequestration’s Automatic Cuts
Much has been written about sequestration recently and now a 400 page report has been published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the Sequestration Transperancy Act of 2012 (STA)...
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The OFPP Mythbusters Campaign – A Bust?
The OFPP in 2011 wanted to do something about transparency in acquisition between agencies and the industry. The idea was to have a series of memos that dispelled rumors with a goal of opening up...
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A Discussion on Sequestration
This morning, I had the opportunity to hear Stan Soloway of the Professional Services Council discuss the pending Sequestration as a guest to the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s (NVTC) Business...
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Now that the election is over, can Congress work together on the impending...
The Bush-era tax cuts expire on January 1, which marks the beginning of the fiscal cliff. Democrats are arguing for keeping them for all but the top 2% of the income ladder. Republicans want to keep...
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Proposal Rejection Avoidance
I came across this very fine article on proposal rejections written by our good friends at Capital Edge Consulting. The article does a great job of laying out not only the top reasons for rejection...
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GAO Releases Bid Protest Report for 2012
On November 13th, the GAO reported their bid protest activities to Congress. The report shows an increase of 5% to the number of cases filed for FY 2012 over FY 2011. They continue to close cases...
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FAR Update to Contract Reporting and Central Contract Registration – Final Rule
The DOD, NASA and the GSA are issuing a final ruling which will go into effect December 20th, 2012 related to the generic use of DUNS numbers (Data Universal Numbering System). This ruling was first...
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Healthcare IT Big in 2013. But, Opportunities Shrinking…
Now that the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. “Obamacare,” is settled law, tens of millions of Americans could be added to Medicare alone. This would spark an explosion of contracting opportunities,...
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DoD Freezes Hiring, Maintenance, Contracting…
Faced with the new, March 1 Sequestration deadline and with no clear solution in sight, DoD began preparing for major funding cuts. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that he...
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Tight Budget? Cut Training With Caution
Tom Lang explains in his Washington Technology piece, how defense budgets will shrink – sequestration or not – and that training employees is more important than ever. As contracting demands shift...
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GAO: Acquistion Workforce Training Cost/Benefit Data is Limited
Government Spending The Government Accountability Office issued a report on the costs and benefits of federal acquisition workforce training and found agencies had limited data to measure clear...
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