Friday Flash - Friday Flash, 01.09.15
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As GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) continues to explore creating a separate “cloud” special item number (SIN) on its IT Schedule 70 contracts, it has issued a working draft cloud terms and conditions for review and comment by industry. The comments on the draft are due on January 15th. FAS’s engagement with industry and issuance
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On December 4, 2014, Anne Rung, Administrator of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum for all Chief Acquisition Officers and Senior Procurement Executives entitled “Transforming the Marketplace: Simplifying Federal Procurement to Improve Performance, Drive Innovation and Increase Savings.” The memorandum sets
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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, with regard to price. Driving the federal government towards a Low Price Regardless (LPR) contracting model As part of the Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI),
Two key events this week represent opportunities for improving the GSA Schedules program that are not being leveraged. First, today, November 21, 2014, is the due date for comments on GSAR Case 2013-G502. Among other things, this GSAR case includes 35 clauses that are being added to the GSAR—clauses that were previously implemented through internal
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Thank you to all our members for your support of the 35th Anniversary Celebration/EIP Honors and Fall 2014 Training Conference! The 35th Anniversary Celebration and Excellence in Partnership Honors could not have been possible without the sustained, strong support of our members and continued efforts to bring common sense to government procurement. Of course,