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Larry Allen on the Federal Drive: Stop CIO-SP4 and start fresh

Larry Allen on the Federal Drive: Stop CIO-SP4 and start fresh

The NIH Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) continues to struggle awarding CIO-SP4, three-and-a-half years after issuing the RFP. Persistent delays, protests, and evolving IT demands have stalled the program, leading Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, to recommend starting over on FedNewsNetwork’s Federal Drive. Allen

GSA awards IBM 15-year contract for next-gen federal travel platform

GSA awards IBM 15-year contract for next-gen federal travel platform

FedNewsNetwork notes GSA has awarded IBM a fifteen-year contract to develop and manage ETSNext, the next-generation federal travel and expense system. ETSNext will replace ETS2, consolidating travel services like booking, vouchering, and compliance auditing into a single shared platform, designed to streamline the experience for federal employees while maintaining regulatory

Congress steps in to resolve GSA pricing dispute in contractors' favor?

Congress steps in to resolve GSA pricing dispute in contractors' favor?

Venable has excellent coverage of the significant dispute between GSA and its Inspector General over Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract pricing, which may soon be resolved by Congress. The debate centers on GSA's Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) program versus the traditional most-favored-customer pricing approach with Price Reductions Clause

GSA modernizes IAE with new features, Drupal upgrade

GSA modernizes IAE with new features, Drupal upgrade

GSA is overhauling the Integrated Award Environment (IAE), the "platform" enabling contractor engagement in response to diverse user needs across federal acquisition, grants, and legal sectors. IAE—an amalgamation of procurement systems, such as SAM, old WDOL, old FPDS, but not ESRS or FSRS—often lacks currency, such

Mission SOLAIYA JV, LLC (B-421775.11)

Mission SOLAIYA JV, LLC (B-421775.11)

Category: Compliance issue, mentor-protege Date: November 7, 2024 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-421775.11 You should not care. Mission SOLAIYA JV, LLC (MSJV) protested its exclusion from GSA’s OASIS+ awards, arguing that GSA wrongly found its proposal noncompliant with a requirement that mentor-protégé joint ventures submit at

GSA updates guidance on contractor team arrangements for Multiple Award Schedules

GSA has issued revised guidance on Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contractor team arrangements (CTAs), emphasizing flexibility for MAS contractors to collaborate on orders. As a review, MAS CTAs allow two or more MAS contract holders to combine resources and capabilities to bid orders they might not otherwise be able to