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President Allocates $11B for GSA In FY2020 Budget Request - This week, the White House released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Budget Request, outlining a proposed $4.75 trillion in funding for Federal initiatives. Notably, the Administration’s budget plan calls for...

The top procurement issues in 2019 -  On last Week's Off the Shelf, Bill Gormley, President of the Gormley Group and chair of the Coalition for Government Procurement, shared his thoughts on a host of key federal procurement issues and initiatives. Download...

GSA details ‘rapid changes’ underway for acquisition - Officials from the General Services Administration’s procurement arm outlined plans Tuesday to streamline the agency’s internal operations, including better use of data, boosting systems efficiencies and process...

New GSA Sales Reporting Portal Notifications -  GSA is continuously modernizing its systems in order to make the process of buying and selling goods and services easier and more efficient. Among the upcoming changes during the 2019 calendar year is the retirement of...

GSA debuts new mobile solutions contract - Anticipating the coming expiration of existing contracts, the General Services Administration is rolling out a new way for agencies to buy mobile solutions. The procurement agency unveiled a new special item number (SIN)...

Air Force rethinking how acquisition and software fit together - The Air Force’s top acquisition official wants to train some program managers to better understand the world of software, and he’ll soon work with the service’s Education and Training Command to make it...

Has your GSA Price List posted to GSA Advantage been updated within two years?   All GSA Advantage files must be updated or validated at least every two years. GSA Advantage files older than two years could be removed from GSA Advantage. If your file is removed from...

Government’s reputation as prompt bill payer among shutdown’s casualties  - Whatever one might say about the complexity of the federal procurement system, it has at least one thing going for it: Once a contractor has navigated the vagaries of the Federal Acquisition...

DOD acquisition reform panel looks to sunset Clinger-Cohen - The Section 809 Panel, charged in a 2016 defense bill to streamline and reform Defense Department acquisition practices, issued its final report Jan. 15 with 58 new recommendations and bringing the grand...

2018 - The Year in Procurement  -- On December 17th on  Off the Shelf,  Jason Miller, executive editor of the Federal News Network and Bill Gormley, president of the Gormley Group, took a look at the key programs, initiatives, and policies that shaped the 2018 year in...