SmallGovCon Week In Review (December 10-14, 2018)

I wanted the pithy introduction to this week’s Week In Review to be a corny Christmas-themed joke. But there’s one problem: I don’t know any! (My dad jokes tend to come on the fly.) 

If you know any (clean) holiday jokes, send them our way. We’ll try to feature them in next week’s edition! 

But for this week’s edition, let’s focus on government contracting. We’ll look at the potential Christmas shutdown, GSA’s consolidation of schedule contracts, a VA-pilot program for facility construction, continuing non-compliance and oversight issues, GAO’s report on noncompetitive contracts, and more.

Have a great weekend!

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: December 3-7, 2018

The first week of December went by in a flash. Santa Claus will be here before you know it; hopefully you’ve all been very good this year!

In this week’s edition of the SmallGovCon Week In Review, data and cloud computing continue to be hot topics, GAO looks at post-disaster contractor performance, and we see the lengths the DEA is willing to go to have clean floors.

Have a great weekend!

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: November 26-30 , 2018

Thanksgiving has come and gone, so that means holiday season is upon us! It was a balmy 62 degrees here in Kansas on Turkey Day, and 48 hours later we were in the middle of a blizzard. Gotta love Kansas weather!

Stuffed full of turkey and snowed in, we had some time to catch up on what’s been happening in the government contracting world. In this two-week edition of SmallGovCon, we’ll look at GSA’s proposed consolidation to its schedule contracts, a DOL hiring discrimination dispute, Amazon’s role in the federal marketplace, and more.

Have a great weekend!

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: November 12-16, 2018

Happy Friday, everyone! I don’t know about you but, as Thanksgiving inches closer, I can practically smell the turkey and stuffing. I hope you’re gearing up for a nice, holiday-shortened week.

Before the holiday, let’s take a look at the SmallGovCon Week In Review. In this week’s edition, we’ll discuss GSA intent to consolidate cybersecurity contract vehicles; a potential spending bonanza by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; results from DoD’s first-ever audit (spoiler, it failed); and more.

Have a great weekend!

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: November 5-9, 2018

This week, Lawrence got its first taste of cold and snow for the season. I have to say, it was not a welcomed arrival. Hopefully it’s warmer in your neck of the woods.

Let’s all warm our hearts with this week’s edition of SmallGovCon Week In Review. In today’s WIR, we’ll look at a joint VA/SBA partnership to benefit SDVOSBs, DoD’s effort to use its expanded “middle tier” contracting vehicles, and more government contractors behaving badly.

Have a great weekend!

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: October 29-November 2, 2018

The big government contracting news of the week was certainly the SBA’s proposed changes to the HUBZone regulations. But that wasn’t the only news. So let’s recap in this week’s edition of the SmallGovCon Week In Review!

Below, we’ll look at the DOD’s plan to audit registered SDVOSBs, an update on the CloudSmart strategy, and more.

Have a great weekend (and enjoy that leftover Halloween candy)!

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: October 22-26, 2018

I was unexpectedly out of the office Friday afternoon, so I didn’t get a chance to post our weekly look at the latest and greatest in government contracting.  But better late than never!  It’s time for a slightly-delayed version.

In last week’s edition of SmallGovCon Week In Review, we have articles about House representatives requesting investigation of the JEDI contract, a report that suggests the 8(a) program is full of ineligible participants, GSA creates new a Solicitation Review Tool to better ensure contract compliance, and much more.

Happy Monday!

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