Agencies must subtract contract awards from small-business award totals if, even after the award, SBA concludes the firm isn’t eligible to be considered small
Obama administration officials are considering a policy that would give preference to contractors who pay their employees higher wages, over Republican opposition.
After a year of hearings, the chairman of a House panel on Defense Department acquisition reforms says DOD must develop new regulations for hiring and building up a civilian acquisition workforce.
Army Secretary John McHugh told a Senate committee that he plans to give outsourced jobs that are associated with inherently governmental functions to its civilian employees.
The fiscal 2010 Defense Department Appropriations Act prohibits contractors from getting that year’s money if they require employees to sign an arbitration clause.
The General Services Administration must know its clients, meet their needs through innovation and do it well, Martha Johnson, the new GSA administrator said in a speech after her swearing-in.
The Senate voted to confirm Johnson after Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) overrode a hold placed on her nomination by Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) that had stalled the nomination since June 2009.
