Monday Morning News Kick Off: DOE Offers 3D Employee Training; GSA Wants to be “Government Savings Agent; and Cyber Chief Plans “Long Harley Ride”

Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from the FedConnects blog. We hope you’ve had a restful weekend and are ready to be the smartest and most efficient government or contractor professional possible. Here’s all the actionable news you need to achieve these goals. Happy Monday! Department of Energy Offers Online Training toRead… Read more »

Supervisory Contract Specialist Vacancy at NIH

DUTIES: As the Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Office of Acquisitions (OA) and Consolidated Operations Acquisitions Center, you will support the NLM in addition to a host of Institutes/Centers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As the Director, you will provide leadership and strategic vision, program oversight, resource planning and evaluation,Read… Read more »

Saving Taxpayer Dollars with Tech

There are trends in the future that I think will end up savings taxpayers a lot of money, and the federal government should be spending its scarce resources on. Because the federal government is such a large driver of the economy, trends it pushes will largely impact American society. 1) Telework. More teleworking means fewerRead… Read more »

Congressman Lankford talks duplication scorecard, good and bad of gov’t travel cuts and does government PR matter?

     On today’s program for Wednesday May 16, 2012  A new bill calls for a duplication scorecard. How would it work and how would it impact your job? We talk to Congressman James Lankford.   Cut your travel by 30% that’s just one of the new requirements from the Office of Management and Budget. We’ll findRead… Read more »

Does your agency need a duplication scorecard? We talk to the Congressman behind a new bill

Duplication — multiple organizations doing the same thing. There is a question as to whether, in this age of austerity, the government can afford to have multiple programs doing the same thing and some argue that duplication makes it more difficult to assess if programs are actually working.  Yet we also know that most ofRead… Read more »

3 takes on suspensions and debarments and say goodbye to continuous improvements?

     On Today’s Program for Tuesday May 15, 2012  Suspensions and debarments — it is the ultimate way if there are problems with a government contractor, but it can also wreak havoc to government contracting. A panel at the ACT-IAC Excellence in Acquisition conference recently, and we’ll hear highlights…  Do more with less — weRead… Read more »

Suspensions and Debarments — 3 perspectives — Why do they happen and are they necessary?

Joe Jordan is the President’s nominee to be the next administrator at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. During his confirmation hearing Jordan was grilled on how he would improve agencies’ use of suspension and debarment against poorly performing contractors and how he would get a handle on the unknown number of contracts used throughoutRead… Read more »

Should Contract Specialists Know the Titles to FAR Parts 1-53 By Heart?

I once took a course called “The FAR Bootcamp”, in which students were required to memorize the titles and corresponding part numbers to all 53 FAR parts. The course was given by Vern Edwards–one of the most highly respected and reputable instructors in the field of Federal contracting. Vern explained that his class was aboutRead… Read more »

The Sequel to Mythbusters in Government Contracting – Another Step Forward

This item was also posted on the Business of Government Blog by Dan Chenok. Last week, the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OMB/OFPP) issued the second memorandum designed to debunk misperceptions about what is and is not permitted in agency-industry communications about pending and future contracts. This sequel memo focusesRead… Read more »

GSA’s Sustainability in Procurement Fellows (SPF) Program

Applications and Project submissions are now being accepted for Cohort 4 of GSA’s Sustainability in Procurement (SPF) Program. The SPF program is a professional development program that provides federal employees in-depth training on sustainability. The fellowship covers regulatory requirements, industry trends, systems thinking concepts, and provides hands on sustainability project experience. As part of theRead… Read more »

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