Procurement operations at DHS remain steady despite the departure of CIO Dr. John Zangardi earlier this month for an industry job, according to the agency's top acquisition official.
Cloud and better business management practices are biting into the way federal agencies buy and use their IT, according to the PSC Vision market forecast.
Commercial providers of technology and infrastructure want more federal protection for liability to share specific cyber threat information about risky products and services.
Federal contracting community will see the biggest changes next summer as GSA completes phase three of its plan to merge multiple purchasing schedules into a single one.
One big contract manager said the raised micropurchase limit will likely contribute to a rise in the dollar amount of year-end spending by agencies as fiscal year 2019 draws to a close.
Chris Krebs, the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS, said that many federal agencies will be outsourcing cyber to a shared service provider in the future.
GSA wants to continue a pilot that collects pricing data on contracts but its inspector general warns that nothing useful has come from the pilot over the last two years.
The General Services Administration is the government's hub acquisition, so the agency's IG is wondering why it's buying tech from NASA's big IT contract.
Think of the September deadline for agencies to award contracts under the General Services Administration's $50-billion telecommunications contract as a "yellow light," said GSA's telecom services director.
With a fall deadline looming, so far just three awards have been made against the $50 billion governmentwide Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecom modernization contract.
