Tag: Price

Federal Times Blog on Driving the federal government towards a Low Price Regardless (LPR) contracting model

  For this week’s comment I wanted to share with you a blog post first published on the Federal Times’ Acquisition Blog (www.federaltimes.com). The post highlights the government’s challenge to employ sound data management policies specifically,

Data, Data, Data

The current procurement passion for collecting data, in particular prices paid data, raises many policy questions.  Coalition members have, on a number of occasions, indicated that data is not a

Transparency and GSA’s OS3 Contract

Last week the General Services Administration (GSA) announced the award of 21 Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI) Office Supply 3 (OS3) Indefinite-Delivery-Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contracts.  The awards went to 20 small