With the changes in Congress and the presidency, and a tougher budget environment ahead, companies will have to be even more flexible and agile to maintain growth during the coming years.
The politically charged issue of illegal immigration has entered the federal procurement arena, and the result likely will be a new compliance obligation for many contractors, along with workforce turnover for those employing illegal aliens.
To keep prices stable on its Multiple Award Schedules contracts, GSA should continue to rely on pre-award audits as much as pricing policies, GAO officials told a Multiple Award Schedule Advisory Panel this week.
L-1 Identity Solutions has won a contract from the State Department to issue border-crossing cards as part of an expansion to the U.S. Passport Card program.
Two senators have alleged that FEMA officials are ignoring a potential conflict of interest and other possible ethics violations with regard to the multimillion-dollar contract.
The federal government's regulations on organizational conflicts of interest in contracting need to be restructured to avoid a "one-size-fits-all" approach, PSC has recommended.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee requested information on 14 concerns about the outsourcing of management of TSA's Integrated Hiring Operations and Personnel Program.
The FBI must establish more stringent controls over contractor expenses on the $425 million Sentinel automated case-management system to keep close tabs on project costs, government auditors say.
The Senate Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2009 spending bill would give the Coast Guard funds to hire additional acquisition employees to help oversee the Deepwater program.
Three departments in the state of Maryland will fund the initial stages of a multiyear, statewide communications project that would allow first responders from different jurisdictions to communicate with each other.
Lawmakers raise concerns that contractors are performing work that is more appropriate for federal employees or are doing work that comes close to inherently governmental functions.
Key provisions of the fiscal 2008 National Defense Authorization Act enhance the rights of government contractors under multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts. The new provisions add rigor and transparency to the procurement of task and delivery orders of more than $5 million.
