The Senate provision would have created a new pathway based on research-and-development cost allocations, which benefit firms doing mostly fixed-price work and pursuing Other Transaction agreements.
For the second straight Congress, lawmakers in the lower chamber have advanced legislation to impose heightened transparency requirements on government software spending.
New data from the Government Accountability Office shows protests have declined 40% since 2016, while half of all cases result in relief for contractors or corrective actions by agencies.
This change would allow companies with billions in Pentagon contracts to maintain non-traditional status by keeping research-and-development cost allocations below a $1.1 million threshold.
The Commerce Department lists customer experience management and enterprise architecture as key areas it wants industry support in developing strategies for.
Legislation from Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., prioritizes waste reduction when it comes to the roughly $1 billion that VA spends annually on software assets.
Protests from Science Applications International Corp. and HII prompted the service to conduct an investigation after accusations that Northrop would be evaluating its own work.
This piece of the service branch's Cloud One Next initiative concentrates on access to cloud computing services via automated, on-demand and self-service means.
A joint memo from OMB Director Russ Vought and OPM Director Scott Kupor Wednesday laid out plans to encompass all federal HR management data into a single technology platform by fiscal 2028.
Despite some early rhetoric about their demise, value-added resellers will keep an essential role in the General Services Administration's governmentwide IT buying strategy.
Jeff Koses of the General Services Administration says cultural changes will determine the ultimate success of acquisition reform, not just regulatory ones.
