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Commission on Wartime Contracting releases interim report

Alan Chvotkin of the Professional Services Council brings FederalNewsRadio analysis.

Tags: contracting , Alan Chvotkin , Dorothy Ramienski , Commission on Wartime Contracting

Monday - 10/17/2011, 01:09pm EDT
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Insourcing debate heats up over agencies stealing employees

Industry experts charge that the Defense Department is targeting specific vendor employees to bring in house. Most of the Pentagon's actions are purely budget driven, industry says. OMB says insourcing is just one element of the broader management initiative of managing the multi-sector workforce.

Tags: mngt , contracting , best practices , Matthew Blum , Jeffrey Zients , OMB , OFPP , DoD , Defense , Interior , Stan Soloway , Terry Raney , CACI , insourcing , Multi-sector workforce , acquisition workforce

Monday - 10/17/2011, 01:09pm EDT
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Agency use of cost reimbursement contracts skyrockets, GAO finds

Auditors say agencies spent $136 billion on cost type contracts in 2008, up $16 billion since 2003. OMB wants to cut the use of these contracts by 10 percent in 2010.

Tags: contracting , management , Jeffrey Zients , GAO , OMB , OFPP , Stan Soloway , Cost reimbursement contracts , Firms fixed price contracts , acquisition reform , FPDS-NG

Monday - 10/17/2011, 01:09pm EDT

Contractor integrity, performance to face higher level of scrutiny

New rule would create database that would bring in existing information and require contracting officers, vendors to submit new data as well. FAR Council wants specific business rules for the data.

Tags: contracting , management , David Drabkin , GSA , OMB , FAR Council , Stan Soloway , POGO , past performance , Contractor integrity , Federal Register

Monday - 10/17/2011, 01:09pm EDT
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Trade association says contractors are not the target

OMB memos "all about the workforce." Moves to reduce federal contracting does not mean cutting federal contractors, according to a contracting trade association.

Tags: contracting , Stan Soloway , OMB , acquisition

Monday - 10/17/2011, 01:09pm EDT
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Rules still apply to foreign contractors

While federal procurement is open to everyone, all contractors still have to play by the rules - even foreign contractors. Alan Chvotkin, Executive Vice President and Counsel at the Professional Services Council explains.

Tags: contracting , procurement , Buy America , Alan Chvotkin ,

Monday - 10/17/2011, 01:09pm EDT
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