“We're essentially floating a loan to the government for the money that we need to recoup for the goods that we've sent out," Sharon Vail said.

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Fri, 28 Mar 2025 23:04:34

In today's Federal Newscast, the Trump administration's contracting freeze has caused several contractors to go out of business.

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Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:56:35

The MAS program contracts are awarded at fair and reasonable prices and promote the best pricing through competition at the task.

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Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:12:17

As part of efforts to right-size the schedules program, GSA is reviewing vendors who don’t meet the sales quota or are having performance and compliance issues.

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Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:59:58

By the end of fiscal 2024, $384 billion of the government’s contract obligations were meeting OMB's criteria for "spend under management."

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Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:01:05

"Most people think of it as purely an anti-bribery statute, but there's actually much more to it than that," said Martin Weinstein.

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Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:57:15

The Trump administration has a '10 out, one in' rule for new regulations, but DoD officials are confident they can finalize the CMMC requirements soon.

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Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:12:59

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program has until April to verify all federal contractors have "wound down their use of affirmative action plans."

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Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:12:39

"There are some court cases wending their way through our judicial system where judges have ordered agencies to make payments," said Stephanie Kostro.

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Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:48:25

GSA's acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian said that the agency is breaking down the data silos to allow systems to better communicate with one another.

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Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:06:25

President Donald Trump is expected to sign two executive orders in the coming weeks that seek to reform federal acquisition, including a rewrite of the FAR.

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Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:22:35

Agencies across the federal government have essentially frozen 200,000 purchase and travel cards, according to GSA, which is coordinating this work.

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Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:50:50

"One of the things I think is getting lost ... is this is a program that pays for itself through the use of and the gaining of refunds," said Shauna Weatherly.

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Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:33:58

"The problem is we're talking about billions of dollars and there has to be some oversight process because otherwise it's just too abusable," said Zach Prince.

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Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:23:38

The VA is walking back the termination of some EHR support contracts. But many of the affected companies already laid off staff.

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Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:43:20