Congress should think twice before giving agencies permanent authority to bypass certain procurement rules on small and medium-sized purchases, according to the General Accounting Office. In a new ...

U.S. businesses increasingly are implementing sourcing practices and relying less on historical supplier relationships, while simultaneously balancing service levels. Buyers do not have to come from ...

With the “vast majority of innovation” across Department of Homeland Security components now “happening independently, without PIL support or with only informal PIL support,” the department’s ...

Steve Kelman checks in on the Department of Homeland Security's Procurement Innovation Lab, and finds valuable lessons for other agencies. The Lectern Setting up the Department of Homeland Security's ...

When planning for the cloud, don’t forget procurement. That was the message delivered by two experts with a shared and vested interest in successfully migrating federal agencies to cloud services, ...

The original version of this story was published on Legalweek The majority of corporate counsel welcome the involvement of procurement professionals in purchasing legal services, according to the ...

A Coast Guard Station Eatons Neck boatcrew aboard a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium pulls alongside a Coast Guard Auxiliary vessel on August 9, 2018, near Northport, New York. The Auxiliary boat is used ...

In a contracting world in which the climate for innovation has been terrible for a decade, one bright spot on a dim horizon has been a surge in the use of contests as a procurement tool. The basic ...

The government's top acquisition chiefs are urging the Office of Management and Budget to revise guidance on performance-based service contracts. In a March 9 memo, OMB Deputy Director Sean O'Keefe ...