Despite several years of hype and discourse around cloud-based solutions “…we still have to be talking about the need to move to the cloud” according to a Federal News Radio survey released last week. Just a little over half of survey respondents said that their agency has moved at least some systems to a cloud-based format. What’s holding feds up? In a word, “control”. Federal IT Read more
Contract compliance can be burdensome. Pricing disclosures, country of origin issues, small business matters, and a slew of special contract clauses all require specialized knowledge, and expense, in order to conduct all but the simplest transactions. Companies sometimes throw up their corporate hands and decide to let someone else carry the load for them. This contractor Read more
Uncertainty and confusion are cropping up in the Department of Veterans Affairs over a recent Supreme Court ruling that directed the agency to increase set-asides when using certain Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contracts. While formal guidance on how VA CO’s should incorporate the ruling into their acquisition plans may come as early as mid-July, VA buying Read more
One of the benefits of having a diverse Multiple Award Schedule program is being able to see the impact of Schedule policy changes in some places before outcomes are identifiable elsewhere. A wealth of anecdotal evidence from GSA’s office furniture schedules, for example, shows what happens when the agency insists not only on the cheapest prices in town, but installation rates that, were a contractor to offer them on their own, would likely bring Read more
There are lots of ways a False Claims Act (FCA) case can cost your company money. One of them effectively doubled last week as the Department of Justice issued a new rule that substantially increases the per-invoice fine the agency can impose. Submit a false invoice? The per-incident fine, alone, can now be over $20,000 a pop. The previous high-end had been $11,000, but DOJ had not increased that level in some time and believed that an increase was Read more