Innovation Labs, Open Source software mandates, new IT priorities, and more.  Your federal market is NOT standing still.  Does your company know a Category from a Hallway or a Shared Service from a Strategic Source?  If these terms are as alien to you as a Friday steak night at the convent, Allen Federal can help.  Not only are we on top of all these changes, we’ve discussed many of them in depth with the government leaders who created them.  Allen Federal can help your company translate these different languages so that your firm is ahead of the knowledge and competition curve!  Contact us today to schedule an on-site class or consultation at info@allenfederal.com

Companies that have uploaded information on GSA Advantage with a UPC waiver, or those with older information, should check their Advantage listings immediately.  The information you think you loaded may have been changed.  Companies have reported that their contract information, including product descriptions, pictures, and part numbers, have been changed by Read more

Just as with Trade Agreements Act or GSA Schedule pricing issues, competitors can be a primary conduit through which the government brings Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) cases.  A recent GAO protest, ASM Research (B-412187) shows that OCI issues are alive and well, even if Read more

Ten federal officials have been appointed as Category Managers as part of OMB’s effort to centralize and streamline procurement.  What this means for contractors may be dependent on the market segment in which you operate.  The IT segment, now headed by former HP industry executive Kim Luke, is well underway with its desktop/laptop initiative that will definitely bring Read more