On July 16th at the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce offices in Tysons, the Coalition will be launching a new Pricing and Regulatory Compliance Oversight Committee (the PRCO). Pricing and audit issues are often discussed in the existing committees typically with a focus on existing policies and proposed changes. For example, we have discussed reform of
On May 28th, the Department of Labor (DOL) published the proposed guidance implementing Executive Order 13673, Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces (the E O). On the same day, the FAR Council issued a proposed rule that would amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to include new clauses and directives implementing the EO. Notwithstanding the laudable
Get out your golf clubs and start practicing – we are pleased to officially announce that the Coalition’s 3rd Annual Joseph P. Caggiano Memorial Golf Tournament will be held on August 26th at the beautiful Whiskey Creek Golf Club in Ijamsville, MD. As many of you are aware, this charity tournament is to honor our
Memorial Day was originally referred to as Decoration Day and honored those who fell fighting to preserve our Union during the Civil War. The first official recognition of Memorial Day was on May 5, 1868 when General John Logan, Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic issued General Order No. 11. The order designated
The questions surrounding NS2020’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) procurement. EIS is the Federal Acquisition Service’s (FAS’s) follow-on telecommunications procurement that will replace the current Networx contracts. In April, 2014, FAS’s Integrated Technology Service (ITS) published a white paper outlining “The Network Services 2020 Strategy entitled NS2020: Defining the future of Federal telecommunications.” This past February
The Federal Acquisition Service’s (FAS’s) Customer Assistance Visits (CAVs): How to know if a CAV is an audit? If the authority cited for the CAV is an audit clause; if the CAV document review looks like an audit; and if the CAV compliance assessment questions look like an audit; the CAV just might be audit!!
As you know, on Tuesday of this week the Coalition hosted its 2015 Spring Training Conference: The Business of Government. Thank you to the many people and organizations who helped make the Spring Training Conference such a huge success! First, thank you to the GSA for a robust, thoughtful Myth-Busters discussion of the key
This week GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) invited the Coalition to a briefing on its Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Competitive Pricing Initiative. The Competitive Pricing Initiative (CPI) will be launched in May and is focused on reducing “price variability” for identical items offered/listed on various MAS contracts. The CPI will include all product-based schedules and
I won’t be writing a typical comment today as I’ll be out of the office presenting at GSA’s public meeting in regards to amending the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) to include clauses that would require vendors to report transactional data from orders and prices paid by ordering activities. Much more on this topic
For this week’s FAR and Beyond Blog, I’d like to share the Coalition’s comments to GSA on NS2020: March 31, 2015 Timothy J. Horan Contracting Officer General Services Administration 1800 F Street NW Washington, DC 20405 Subject: Comments on the Draft RFP for the NS2020 Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) Acquisition