The House Homeland Security Committee has published its first online newsletter highlighting opportunities at DHS as a way to help small business contractors.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has approved a bill, after amending it, that would close a loophole in dealing with contractors in acquisition regulations.
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.
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.
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 question of which functions can or should be performed by federal contractors has been the focus of increasing debate, including two congressional hearings held in early March. The issues involved are complex but timely.
