The General Services Administration (GSA) this month launched a video series in which it outlines changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and how these changes affect government contractors. In the first "FAN in a Minute," the video covers changes that went...
In 2015, the federal government spent nearly half of a trillion dollars on contracts with private companies—$436,668,103,830, to be exact. Members of the public are free to drill down into this data and track funding going to specific businesses, thanks to a series...
The GSA’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program or better known as FedRAMP has approved the use of Amazon Web Services for cloud computing. The cloud services will help the Army and Navy save time and money. High level military...
GSA Schedule According to MAS Blogger on GSA Interact the following are 12 reasons why it is important to be on a GSA Schedule as a registered government contractor. Ordering activities often ask why they should use...
According to the GSA’s Interior Department Chief Information Officer Bernard Mazer, there are not enough certified cloud service contractors meeting FedRAMP’s guidelines and standards. FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) is the program GSA has designed to certify commercial...
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The Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) is a web-enabled, enterprise application that provides timely and pertinent contractor past performance information to the Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal acquisition community for use in making source-selection decisions (e.g., awarding contracts). PPIRS...
Even federal government agencies like the United States Department of Agriculture are finding it hard to register in System for Award Management (SAM). System for Award Management (SAM) is the nation’s government procurement database. Patricia Griffith, Information Technology Chief of the...
Woman-owned small businesses in the 2013 fiscal year have been pulling in contract after contract due to small business set-aside initiative. The Federal Acquisition Regulations (which contains over 2,200 pages of government rules) states very clearly that 23% of all...
