News
Contractor trade groups to merge
Professional Services Council and Contractor Services Association will join forces.
Defense
House backs big increase in contractor oversight
Massive defense authorization bill also includes 3.5 percent military pay raise.
Management
After Blackwater
There are few options if the besieged security contractor is phased out of Iraq.
Oversight
Intelligence contract recompete could be lucrative for several firms
New report indicates that the ICE2 follow-on could be a multiple award worth up to $2.25 billion.
Oversight
OMB spells out best practices for incentive contracts
Procurement administrator encourages agencies to conduct risk and cost-benefit analyses, define performance metrics.
Oversight
GAO validates use of no-cost contract
Maryland contractor offered federal agencies free event planning services in exchange for ability to collect registration, sponsorship fees.
Features
Running the Light
The Bush administration has used its traffic-light system to rate agency management since 2001. Now we evaluate the president’s progress.
News And Analysis
After Blackwater
There are few options if the besieged security contractor is phased out of Iraq.
Oversight
Rule requires contractors to set, follow codes of ethics
Large companies doing business with the government must institute compliance training programs; small firms exempt from rule change.
Defense
Defense bill proves lucrative for biggest firms
Top federal contractors received earmarks worth more than $200 million in fiscal 2008 appropriations bill.
Oversight
GSA takes on lead role with office leases
Agencies no longer allowed to negotiate their own contracts for spaces larger than 20,000 square feet.
Oversight
Bush orders agencies to appoint ‘performance improvement officers’
Officials must make sure agency goals are “sufficiently aggressive” and “realistic.”
Defense
Homeland Security making progress in recruiting veterans
In fiscal 2007, DHS nearly doubled previous years’ totals of new vet hires.
Defense
Army weighs options as GAO sustains protests of logistics contract
Service says it will continue to use KBR as its overseas logistics provider as it reviews alternatives.
Oversight
It's a dirty job, but someone has to run GSA
The past five administrators of the agency have all ended up under clouds of controversy.
Defense
Pentagon honors leaders of disabled veterans contracting program
Award winners include eight businesses, six Defense acquisition officials and five prime contractors.
Oversight
Procurement officials were well-prepared to award wildfire contracts
Prepositioned contracts for ready-to-eat meals and water helped avoid another Katrina, officials say.
News And Analysis
Tough Talk
Campaign promises to shake up contracting and the federal workforce are short on details.
Oversight
Security contractor group looks beyond Blackwater controversy
Annual conference for security and logistics firms focuses on peace, disaster relief operations.
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