A Day of Remembrance

Other - A Day of Remembrance

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

Information Technology - Uncertainty in the Federal IT Marketplace:

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

Contract Compliance - How to Know if a CAV is an Audit?

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!!

Coalition Events - 2015 Spring Training Conference Thank You!

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

MAS Pricing Policy - FAS’s Briefing on its Multiple Award Schedule Competitive Pricing Initiative

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

Coalition Events - 2015 Spring Training Conference is Very Near!

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

Information Technology - The Coalition’s Comments on NS2020

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

Coalition Events - 2015 Spring Training Conference Coming Soon!

Now that we’ve entered April, there are a couple things we’re very excited about here at the Coalition – warmer weather and our upcoming Spring Training Conference titled The Business Of Government.   This year’s Spring Training Conference will take place on April 28th at the Fairview Park Marriott in Falls Church, VA and include speakers from

Federal Supply Schedule - Roger Waldron’s Letter to Administrator Roth and Administrator Rung

For this week’s comment, I wanted to share with you all a letter the Coalition sent this week to OMB and GSA concerning commercial item contracting in the wake of a recent decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: March 24, 2015   Denise Turner Roth Administrator, General Services 1800 F Street, N.W. Washington,

Friday Flash - Friday Flash, 03.27.15

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