Author Archives: Shane McCall

Webinar Announcement! Shaping Opportunities in the New GovCon Climate, May 8, 2025, 11:00am CDT

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Please join Greg Weber and me to discuss how recent executive orders are having an effect on the contracting landscape, and how they interact with important new small business rules and updates, joint venture changes and guidance, and recent cases. This discussion will focus on existing small business and evaluation rules and regulations, and how those fit in with recent orders and reorganization efforts.

Key issues include:

  • Strategic Capabilities to Capacity – Multiple Award Contracts, JV, 8(a) Program, Mentor-Protege, Teaming Arrangrements
  • Strategic Competencies – Past Performance Regulations and Solicitation Language
  • Current Contracts – Bid Protests, Selling SDVOSB, WOSB or other socioeconomic businesses and affect on contracts and proposals

Register here.

SmallGovCon Week in Review: April 14-18, 2025

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Welcome to the latest edition of the Week in Review. It’s been a busy week in the federal government contracting world and the attorney-authors at SmallGovCon are striving to provide you with the latest updates. Some key stories from this week include executive orders on massive procurement reform (read our summary here) and the push for commercial IT solutions, to ongoing agency-level budget tightening, it’s been a wild ride. Have a great weekend!

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Why File: A HUBZone Status Protest

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Lately, it seems there has been an uptick in questions we receive at webinars, on the blog, and from prospective clients about the HUBZone program. There may be more interest in this program than there has been in the past as it could be a key tool for procurement designations in the future. At the same time, the HUBZone program, while making some aspects of the program more flexible, has also put more scrutiny on current and aspiring HUBZone contractors. This post talks about one process that puts a lot of scrutiny on HUBZone contractors: a HUBZone status protest.

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: April 7-11, 2025

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Happy Friday! We hope you had a great week. This week in federal government contracting: GSA has announced a fresh round of OASIS Plus unrestricted awardees, expanding opportunities for vendors in the professional services space, and OMB also released memos signaling new AI policy goals. You can read more about this and other federal government contracting news in the articles below. Have a great weekend!

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: March 31- April 4, 2025

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Happy April! We are having our typical Midwest spring weather here, where one day it is warm and sunny and the next day it is cold and rainy. We have to keep every type of jacket at the ready because one never knows what to expect. We hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend.

This week in federal government contracting included stories dealing with the remaking of the federal workforce, increased workload for federal judges, and a more prominent role for GSA.

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Executive Order: Consolidation of Procurement

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The Trump administration has issued an executive order entitled Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement. This order, or Consolidation EO, has some guidelines for how procurement will be reorganized under the Trump administration, so it’s useful to go through some of the key language. One item in particular is a keen focus on category management by using GSA for various types of procurement. While it’s been a driving force of procurement reform over the years, this order puts category management into even sharper focus.

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: March 24-28, 2025

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Hello! It’s Friday and time for another week in review. This time of year brings both the ripping up of March Madness brackets and the opening day of baseball–hope springs eternal! And for non-sports ball folks, we hope that spring is bringing all of our readers both renewed energy and productivity.

This week saw a number of interesting stories, including proposed consolidating of procurement with GSA and changes to GSA schedules, along with updates on termination of some contracts.

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