Happy Spring! It’s been a long, cold winter here in the Midwest. But we are starting to see many signs of spring this week. I just got back from a spring break trip to Gulf Shores and Fort Morgan, Alabama and this picture was taken on the beach there. It was a great time to recharge the batteries so I could get back to staying up to date on federal contracting news.
This week in federal government contracting news saw stories including consolidating a number of multiple award contracts under GSA and cutting spending at both DoD and SBA.
- Trump executive order consolidates federal IT contracting under GSA
- DOD to Cut $580 Million in Spending
- Draft EO would make GSA the center of most common buys
- DOD Contracting: Opportunities Exist to Improve Pilot Program for Employee-Owned Businesses
- Whitehouse Statement: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement
- Small Business Administration Announces Agency-Wide Reorganization
- White House rescinds federal contractor minimum wage
- Trump administration removes ban on ‘segregated facilities’ in federal contract
- Government contracting for space companies: the new (old) frontier
- VA cuts support work for new EHR, after canceling hundreds of contracts
- OPM looks to limit federal unions’ role in coming RIFs
- SBA Sets Dates for Free National Small Business Week Virtual Summit
- GSA sets May deadline for more staff cuts through layoffs and incentives
- Pentagon is cutting up to 60,000 civilian jobs. About a third of those took voluntary resignations
- VA secretary defends dismissal of veterans from government jobs in WTOP interview
- Officials shed light on ‘active process’ to shrink DOD’s workforce by more than 50,000 personnel