A fair shake in federal contracting is what small IT companies are after. But what constitutes "fair" is a matter for debate, one that is raging around new regulations released by the Small Business Administration in November.
Last month, the Small Business Administration released its anxiously anticipated rule on the recertification of small-business size status. On balance, SBA got it partly right.
The Senate's busy final week wrapped up with members confirming the EPA's new CIO and extending through Feb. 15 the federal government's fiscal 2006 budget.
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy announced yesterday that it has plans to implement an acquisition framework developed by congressional auditors more than a year ago.
It's finally out: the Small Business Administration's long-awaited, much-debated, final rule establishing size recertification requirements applicable to contracts that run for longer than five years appeared in the Nov. 15 issue of the Federal Register.
The Homeland Security Department has made insufficient progress in developing its information-sharing network and common operating picture, two key senators wrote in a letter to Secretary Michael Chertoff this week.
