James “Hondo” Geurts, assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition (ASN (RD&A)) at the U.S. Navy, will be featured as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s 2020 Navy Forum on September 30th. Click here to register for the 2020 Navy Forum. Potomac Officers Club’s forum will also feature an expert panel....
Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Perspecta as well as a six-time Wash100 Award recipient, has been appointed chairman of the company’s board of directors effective Aug. 5, Perspecta announced on Wednesday. He will succeed Mike Lawrie, Perspecta’s chairman since the company’s launch in 2018, who announced on Wednesday that he would ...
The General Services Administration will release another corrective action on the $7.6B Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday....
A Leonardo subsidiary has resumed work on the U.S. Navy’s TH-119 helicopter trainer at its Philadelphia facility after the Government Accountability Office denied a protest of the potential $648.1M contract awarded in January, Vertical Magazine reported Thursday....
Gina Haspel, Juliane Gallina, Gen. Paul Nakasone, Teresa Carlson, Hon. Ellen Lord Climb Wash100 Popular Vote Rankings; Wash100 Voting Extended Until June 1st. Because of the limitations created by the COVID-19 situation, Executive Mosaic has extended the Wash100 Popular Vote this year until June 1st to give the government contracting (GovCon) commun...
The US economy has been stricken by Coronavirus. Last week, a record 6.6m Americans filed for unemployment benefits. The government has responded to the crisis with a $2 trillion package, which includes $300 billion in direct payments to citizens. That’s commendable. But while Washington’s intentions are good, there’s a strong possibility that...
I™ve previously written about a procurement for suicide prevention locks and associated printing services that was undertaken for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by the Government Publishing Office (GPO). A veteran-owned small business challenged the VA and the GPO procurement at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), at the Court ...
My September 12, 2019 column, raised questions about a protest at the GAO of the VA™s planned use of the Government Publishing Office (formerly the Government Printing Office) to acquire anti-suicide gun locks and printing instructions. That case addressed the applicability of the VA™s specific statute to give priority to veteran-owned sma...
Every once in a while, a GAO bid protest decision is issued that catches my attention for reasons having nothing to do with the underlying legal issue being decided. ...
In his debut column, Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president and counsel of the Professional Services Council, analyzes two recent cases involving the government contracting selection process. In each case contractors protested what they considered were flawed methods in the government™s source selection and filed a protest. Chvotkin reviews th...
