Small businesses won a record $96.8 billion in federal prime contracts in 2009, an increase of more than $3 billion from the previous fiscal year, according to the Small Business Administration.
According to SBA’s fourth annual small-business procurement scorecard released last week, this amount represents 21.89 percent of all federal spending, which is an improvement from [...]

“This is vastly different from anything you’ve ever seen before,” said GSA representative today at DISA & GSA’s 3rd Industry Day. The two organizations invited media and industry to attend the Future COMSATCOM Services Acquisition (FCSA) End-to-End Solutions Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Draft RFP Industry Day this morning, April 7, 2010 at the GSA [...]

The GSA needs your help.
According to a note published in the Federal Register, General Services is looking for comments and feedback on the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information Systems (FAPIIS) – the new database aiming to keep government contractors honest.
GSA faces some problems in the early stages of the project, such as how [...]

The Department of Defense is adopting as final, with changes, the interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to address statutory provisions relating to interagency procurements on behalf of DoD.
The now-final rule adds new policy to address certain requirements and expands existing DFARS definitions – effective March 15, 2010.
According to the Defense [...]

In a report released Monday, the Office of Management and Budget said Federal agencies are almost halfway towards reaching their two year goal to reduce government contracting costs by currently cutting $19 billion.
An objective directed from President Obama, agencies are to cut $40 billion from contracting budgets by 2011.  The administration hopes that by cutting [...]

The House approved a spending bill on December 16th, 2009 that is more than $636 billion in Department of Defense spending. The goal is to increase oversight to reduce the amount of fraud and waste. The bill has requirements to lower the amount of money spent on contractor outsourcing.
There is $5 billion in the bill [...]

ManTech International Corporation has just received “non-conflicted” certification from the National Reconnaissance Office. NRO is the top agency for the design, operation, and acquisition of reconnaissance satellites. There are only a few companies so far that have achieved this certification. The goal of this program is to ensure the veracity of the acquisition process. Moreover, [...]