The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is requesting feedback to inform how it will implement an authority in the fiscal year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that will evaluate price only at the task order level to improve competition. Comments on the advance notice of proposed rulemaking for the implementation of Section 876 are due Sept. 19.
Read More »ICF Secures $68M Task Order to Deliver Database Administration Services; Mark Lee Quoted
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has awarded ICF, a global consulting and digital services provider, a potential ten-year, $68 million task order to deliver enterprise-wide database administration services, the company announced on Thursday.
Read More »Kevin Phillips of ManTech International & Paul Smith of Red Hat Among New Members of PSC’s Board of Directors; David Berteau Quoted
The Professional Services Council (PSC) announced new members to its Board of Directors on Friday. Kevin Phillips, chief executive officer of ManTech International and 2019 Wash100 Award winner, became the newest board member after being approved during a PSC board meeting on June 18th.
Read More »GSA’s Order-Level Materials Procurement Initiative Via Schedules Program Goes Live
The General Services Administration has begun implementing an initiative that seeks to authorize government agencies to purchase order-level materials through the Multiple Award Schedules program. OLMs are supplies or services procured in support of a delivery or task order that are not determined at the time of a contract award. GSA started …
Read More »A&D Trade Group Asks Congress to Finalize FY 2018 Spending Bill, Address Budget Caps
The Aerospace Industries Association has called on House and Senate leaders to finalize the appropriations bill for fiscal year 2018 as well as repeal or increase the budget caps in order to avert a possible sequestration. AIA and other defense and aerospace industry executives wrote in the Dec. 1 letter …
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