With regard to contract duplication, last week’s post highlighted the Air Force’s recently issued RFP IDIQ for multiple award contracts for commercial office furniture. By its own terms, the Air Force’s acquisition strategy as articulated in its draft RFP duplicates current GSA schedule contracts for commercial office furniture. In fact, the RFP instructs offerors toRead… Read more »
From Brittany Wismer via the Virginia Tech Alumni Group on LinkedIn: “MVLE is inviting our business community to breakfast & an open house to discuss the Working Warrior initiative and how MVLE is creating jobs for people with disabilities. MVLE (www.mvle.org) is a dynamic nonprofit seeking to forge lasting partnerships with local and national companiesRead… Read more »
Happy Friday Everyone! You know, the beginning of the year usually inspires us to change. Some of use choose to change the way we eat while some of us change the way we spend. The question is, can you do both? Weight loss programs can be expensive, but I think this guy has found theRead… Read more »
The work we are doing on the content strategy is very much about actually doing a bunch of work whilst I write the strategy down. One area where is has been the case is with the councils news and press stories – this week we launched a new News Centre (see below) which was builtRead… Read more »
I’ll be live-blogging tech@state’s Real-Time Awareness throughout the day. To keep tabs on what’s going on, you can check out #techatstate on Twitter, or watch the livestream here: http://www.livestream.com/techstate. The opening keynote address was given by Craig Fugate, Administrator of FEMA. Fugate discussed the role of social media in disaster response and challenged the conventionalRead… Read more »
From the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations: “National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Summer Internship Program Deadline: March 12, 2012 The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations’ Washington, DC Summer Internship Program offers undergraduate and gr Original post
Prof. Richard Lazarus of Harvard’s Law School spends 6:30 describing how unlikely it seems that climate change legislation will become law, and then spends the remaining time discussing how to overcome the barriers that prevent the law from being enacted. Just when you thought that there was no light at the end of the tunnelRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Gov 2.Overseas! Across the Pond. Alex Howard covers the release of GOV.UK, which in time is slated to be a single portal through which Brits can access all government agencies and, in Alex’s words, “aims [to] deliver[] faster digital services to citizens through a much improved user interface at decreased cost.” Importantly, andRead… Read more »
Business Calendar One of the first of many questions to ask when preparing for a large multi-year project is, “How many hours represent a person year (1920, 1888, 1848, etc)?” Then ask how those hours will be time phased, linear or adjustable, across the contract year(s). It is amazing how easily these two questions getRead… Read more »
Amanda Kathryn Roman of the Citizens in Charge Foundation and Joan Blades of MoveOn.org and MomsRising are collaborating to launch a new and exciting project to promote civil conversations: www.LivingRoomConversations.org. It is an open-source project that provides a model for respectful conversations among friends & friends of friends around political issues that are typically polarizing.Read… Read more »