The Energy Department has begun its search for two business and industry analysts in support of the agency’s office of the chief information officer. The selected candidates within DOE’s office of the deputy CIO for resource management will provide acquisition and management assistance for contracts and programs that support DOE’s national laboratories …
Read More »OMB Instructs Agencies to Use DoD’s Package Delivery Services Contract Vehicle
The Office of Management and Budget has released a memorandum that requires federal agencies to use a Defense Department governmentwide acquisition contract for package delivery services, DoD said Thursday. The new OMB policy also directs agencies to transition to the Best-In-Class Next Generation Delivery Services contract by Oct. 1. OMB said …
Read More »Dustin Brown: New OMB Guidance Aims to Scale Back Agency Reporting Requirements
The Office of Management and Budget will issue a memo that seeks to reduce reporting requirements and cumbersome activities for government agencies, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Dustin Brown, deputy assistant director for management at OMB, said during a panel discussion at the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council’s conference …
Read More »Butch Luckie: Air Force’s IT Savings Hit $565M
Butch Luckie, chief of information technology business analytics at the U.S. Air Force, has said the service branch has achieved nearly 17 percent reduction in the service branch’s IT budget of more than $3.9 billion during the past two years. Luckie told Federal News Radio in an interview published Thursday that figure represents …
Read More »GSA’s Mary Davie Outlines IT Industry Feedback on Federal Acquisition
Mary Davie, assistant commissioner for the office of information technology category at the General Services Administration, has met with more than 50 representatives from IT services companies to discuss government contracting issues. Davie wrote in a blog post published Tuesday industry members want government acquisition and program personnel to be more accessible and respond …
Read More »Kevin Youel Page: GSA Plans to Make Transactional Data Reporting Pilot Voluntary
The General Services Administration has begun to consider whether to lift a mandate that requires commercial vendors to participate in a three-year pilot program for transactional data reporting process, Nextgov reported Thursday. “We’re getting very close to getting to the decision to remove that requirement,” Kevin Youel Page, deputy commissioner of GSA’s …
Read More »Mary Davie: GSA Unveils Rebranded Office of Information Technology Category
The General Services Administration has changed the name of its Integrated Technology Service to the Office of Information Technology Category and modified the ITC’s framework to align with agencies and industry partners. Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of the ITC, wrote in a blog post published Jan. 5 the new office will look to bolster deliveries of products …
Read More »Tom Sharpe: GSA Seeks to Update Multiple Award Schedules Program Through Transactional Data Reporting Rule
The General Services Administration has published a final rule that would require federal contractors to report transactional acquisition data as well as eliminate price reduction clause and commercial sales practices disclosure requirements for contractors. Tom Sharpe, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday, the …
Read More »GSA Gets ‘Best-in-Class’ Designations for SmartPay Contract Vehicles
The General Services Administration has received “best-in-class” designations for SmartPay 2 and SmartPay 3 government-wide contracts for charge cards and other payment services. David Shea, director of the center for charge card management at GSA, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the BIC designation seeks to recognize the SmartPay contract …
Read More »OFPP Proposes New OMB Circular to Implement Category Mgmt for Common Goods & Services Procurement
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has proposed to release a new circular that seeks to implement category management in an effort to facilitate the acquisition of common goods and services by federal agencies. OFPP said in a Federal Register notice posted Friday the new Office of Management and Budget circular …
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