Instead of one big contract, the service branch will hold separate competitions for different lines of work to aid in the transition to a new ground-based system.
ONCD chief Sean Cairncross also said a bedrock National Cyber Strategy, initially expected last month, is coming “sooner rather than later” without specifying a date.
The Government Accountability Office denies Accenture Federal's claims of a conflict of interest at CACI International, whose technical proposal and a willingness to take a lower profit won out.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had asserted that officials violated an earlier mandate regarding the disclosure of spending data.
The troubled $50 billion IT contract vehicle has faced hundreds of protests that the National Institutes of Health's acquisition arm could never fully resolve.
“It’s dismaying,” one longtime anti-fraud expert told Nextgov/FCW of how the administration is using fraud as rationale but firing the watchdogs that are tasked with finding it.
Larry Allen of the General Services Administration says training and backing up contracting officers are critical for getting the acquisition workforce to embrace new flexibilities in acquisition regulations.
The General Services Administration's new requirements for protecting controlled unclassified information apply immediately to new contracts, at the contracting officer's discretion.
Defenders of the small business contracting initiative say it enables rapid procurement, can meet administration priorities and the administration is overstating fraud concerns.
The service branch unveils a draft solicitation for its effort to hire a contractor that can aid in the prototyping and operations of satellite ground systems and satellite operations centers.
To be called Cumulus, this new contract will cover all aspects of commercial cloud computing and is part of the Homeland Security Department's push for more visibility into spending and usage.
