This free, 1 hour LexisNexis Speaker Series event being co-hosted by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation may be of interest to you if you are in the DC area. Here’s all the information: LexisNexis cordially invites you to attend the 2011 Speaker Series – “Title 11 and the Great Recession: Recent Trends in Business Reorganization“Read… Read more »
An Open Letter to DOD, Release your guides like the Defense Acquisition Guidebook and DOD IP Guide in ebook formats. Ebook sales now outpace hardback sales on Amazon. The times are changing and so should the release of DOD guide formats. Yes, I can download the information as a PDF, but that’s a pain becauseRead… Read more »
Competing for government contracts is always challenging, and it is even more so for small firms. All agencies have to set aside work for small businesses, with additional considerations given for minority-, woman- and veteran-owned companies. But it is up to each company to find out about those opportunities. To help shed some light onRead… Read more »
The other day at work we visited with our police records office to learn more about their reporting software. One of the issues that came up in our discussion was inputting the “address” of incidents. The software they use relies on either point addresses or address ranges along a centerline – both common methods ofRead… Read more »
I was hired into CBP’s SBI program office in July of 2010, without any real idea of what “acquisition” meant or how it was practiced. My supervisor told me that I was the “acquisition workforce development officer,” a title that I later discovered existed only in his head. I do have to make a disclaimer:Read… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Government Employees as Guides, not just Subjects. IBM Center author Ines Mergel argues in a blog post that ” constantly including practitioners into the research process and not only as subjects (i.e., interview partners), but as equal partners who guide the research, evaluate its feasibility and to keep the research grounded and unbiased.”Read… Read more »
Are you in your own contracting cubicle world? Feel isolated? Sad? Then you may be experiencing Customer Withdraw Syndrome (CWS). Take a weekly dose of your customer to fight it. Sit in the customer’s office for one day per week. Create the actual solicitation in the customer’s office. Don’t just go for a visit. GetRead… Read more »
FROM A PROFESSIONAL PROSPECTIVE I’ve recently began looking into ways that public procurement can purchase goods and services in a more sustainable way. By sustainable, I mean incorporating the social, economic, and environmental impacts that purchases can have. As I began to look into this the Farm-to-School program emerged as a perfect example of howRead… Read more »
Recently I launched the Open RFP Network: OpenRFP.net. My primary inspiration for this was the Peer to Patent portal. When I first read Beth’s white paper about the transformation of the patent application process I realized that ultimately this would be applied to all government processes. Why keep slow, offline and expensive by a few,Read… Read more »
Let’s start off with this — I have been blessed to work with wonderful small businesses. That being said, small business contracts can be among the toughest contracts. I think this is due to four areas. 1) New, inexperienced contract specialists are often assigned small business contracts. I hear this on both the civilian andRead… Read more »