Agencies closed for five weeks during the partial shutdown are opening for business again. Expert advice to contractors: Be patient and have empathy. Plus follow directions.
The partial government shutdown lasted for weeks but the road to recovery will likely be measured in months or longer, according to government contractors responding to our shutdown survey.
There has been some reporting that the Defense Department has "admitted' it is reviewing a possible conflict of interest involving Amazon Web Services and the JEDI cloud contract. But the reality is a little more mundane.
An underlying notion of the government market has long been its stability and reliability. But even if it's over for now, this shutdown brings that notion into some question.
Proposals should now be in for the Navy's almost $3.4 billion recompete of its Next Generation Enterprise Network contract, one of the year's largest defense IT competitions.
Financial reporting season kicks off the last week of January for many publicly-traded government contractors. They need to prepare to answer tough shutdown questions.
Contractors of all shapes and sizes are having to make all kinds of adjustments as the partial shutdown continues but some may be more drastic than others, especially for small businesses.
