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All things SmartPay
David Shea, director of GSA's Office of Charge Card Management, gives us an update on the agency's SmartPay program.
May 13, 2013
Tags: acquisition , contracting , SmartPay , micro-purchase , travel card , fleet card , purchase card , David Shea , Mark Amtower , Amtower Off Center , strategic sourcing , warrant card
Inside the Reporter's Notebook: The CIO shuffle continues; the last E-gov benefits report?
News and buzz in the acquisition and IT communities that you may have missed this week.
Tags: technology , Inside the Reporters Notebook , people , DOT , State , USDA , OMB , e-government , Cheryl Cook , Lisa Schlosser , Richard McKinney , Steven Taylor , Dave McClure , Jason Miller , exclusive
GAO bid protests
Jack Horan, partner at McKenna Long and Aldridge LLP, will talk about GAO bid protests, including how the process works, and how many protests are successful.
May 7, 2013
Tags: acquisition , bid protests , Government Accountability Office , Jack Horan , McKenna Long & Aldridge , Multiple award schedule contracting , Roger Waldron , Off the Shelf
EPA, HUD search for ways to keep mid-career feds
Mid-career employees are a scarcity in government. While agencies are awash with employees at the early career stage and those with 20-plus years of federal service, there aren't enough in the middle stages, and that has federal managers worried. Agencies like EPA and HUD are taking matters into their own hands. Both are launching new efforts aimed at keeping mid-career feds from leaving government for the private sector.
Tags: HUD , Shaun Donovan , DHS , Janet Napolitano , EPA , Bob Perciasepe , Dan Tangherlini , Partnership for Public Service , Public Service Recognition Week , employee morale , Jason Miller
Q&A with Larry Allen
Larry Allen of Allen Federal Business Partners, joins host Mark Amtower to talk about how sequestration and other issues are affecting contractors.
May 6, 2013
Tags: acquisition , procurement , contracting , sequestration , Larry Allen , Allen Federal Business Partners , conference spending , conference cancellations , FSSI , CIO CS , SEWP 5 , OASIS , Joe Jordan , Amtower Off Center , Mark Amtower
Agencies forced to freeze office space footprint
A memo from Controller Danny Werfel requires agencies to submit a plan to maintain current total square footage for office and warehouse space. Agencies must offset any new growth by disposing of current leases.
Tags: real property , financial management , Danny Werfel , Freeze the Footprint , Lauren Larson
GSA pounded for not moving excess property faster
Lawmakers at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held at the Georgetown Heating Plant, blasted the General Services Administration for its handling of excess federal properties.
Tags: Congress , House , House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee , Jeff Denham , real property , John Mica , Flavio Peres , Esther Carey
Historic buildings throw wrench in agencies real-property efforts
In a new report, the Government Accountability Office found tighter budgets in recent years have constrained agencies' ability to maintain and repair historic buildings and that poor data practices have led to inconsistent and erroneous information on a database designed to track federal properties.
Tags: historic preservation , real property , GAO , VA , NPS , management
LEED green building standard clears first hurdle for governmentwide use
The Green Building Advisory Committee recommends GSA establish the LEED certification as the governmentwide standard for all federal buildings. GSA will work with Energy and DoD to come up with the final decision.
Tags: management , green government , Kevin Kampschroer , Green Building Advisory Committee , LEED standard , Green Globe standard , Energy Star , Jason Miller
The cloud and the federal market
Steve Kousen, vice president of Cloud Email and Collaboration Services at Unisys will discuss what agencies and contractors can expect as they move some of their services to the cloud.
April 30, 2013
Tags: acquisition , contracting , procurement , Steve Kousen , Unisys , cloud computing , cloud email , collaboration , sequestration , technology , Roger Waldron , Off the Shelf
