If your organization doesn't have a formal and proactive ethics and compliance program, now is the time to establish one. It's not a matter of whether you trust your employees to do the right thing. It is a matter of educating them so they will know expected ethical behavior.
Whether a company's structure is organizedaround sectors, business units, divisions or groups,most government contractors find that the independentfederation model is an effective structure forbusiness development ? to a point.
One comment I often hear lately about the financialmarkets is that their volatility has increased. Theincreased volatility is an indicator of uncertainty, causinginvestors to react quickly to each piece of financial,economic or political news.
The federal procurement system is the largest and amongthe cleanest public-sector procurement systems in theworld. It counts transparency and competition as its highestvalues.
In a world that is flat, trade laws can make all the difference.This is as true in public procurement as in the software, steel orwheat markets. For non-U.S. companies, there is increasinginterest in tapping into the U.S. public-contracting market.
Whether or not the recent Federal Communications Commission auction of the 700-MHz band being vacated by TV broadcasters was a success depends on your criteria.
But legislators wonder if the proposal is necessary with regulators close to finalizing changes in acquisition regulations to deal with the same issue.
The Georgia Technology Authority has prequalified four contractors to compete for its statewide infrastructure and managed network services contracts that could total between $1.2 and $1.4 billion.
IBM's agreement to withdraw its protest of an EPA contract will enable CGI Federal, which originally won the contract last year, to help the agency modernize its financial management system.
In more than 40 percent of purchases made using government purchase cards, agencies could not prove users followed the safeguards established to prevent abuse, a GAO report has found.
The FCC yesterday adopted an order allowing transmission of emergency alerts via text message to cell phone users nationwide, but the plan could falter without an agency to head it.
Raytheon is teaming with Harris Corp. and Hewlett Packard to chase an Air Force contract for the Global Broadcast Service Satellite Broadcast Manager transition contract.
The pace of task orders coming out of the Eagle IT contract at the Homeland Security Department slowed in the first half of fiscal 2008, according to new data.
The Marine Corps is looking for a few good vendors who can provide information about the governance development and operation of service-oriented architectures.
The Homeland Security Department's new rule for foreign students more than doubles the number of months that a foreign student may stay in the U.S. after graduation while applying for a work visa.
