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After several years of investigation and more than 200 complaints, the Florida Attorney General is taking action against infamous GSA ‘consultant’, The Federal Verification Co., Inc. dba GSA Applications, filing a complaint alleging multiple violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.  Among the allegations are charges that GSA Applications used its team… Read more »

The General Services Administration (GSA) has been making major changes in the past few months to their professional services Schedule offerings. GSA announced that the first step in this process will be to consolidate Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) services offerings. With the recent news of GSA naming Kevin Youel Page as the new deputy commissioner… Read more »

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is again in the news. This time for the technical evaluations done for the subscription services for its pharmaceutical information database.  After the VA made award to Cox Subscriptions, Inc., Swets Information Services filed a protest at the GAO.  The GAO concluded that the agency failed to document its… Read more »

Boeing won the Air Force aerial tanker contract after protesting an award to European Aeronautic in a hard fought procurement.  Now Boeing Co. is revising its master schedule for developing the new tanker that has already run up an estimated $1 billion in excess costs for the contractor.  Yes, that is correct, $1 billion dollars… Read more »

October 22, 2014 I am speaking on Friday at the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants (VSCPA) on the latest and greatest changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR ) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) this year.  A personal thank you to the very knowledgeable Gregg Funkhouser, partner at Dixon Hughes. Gregg normally covers this… Read more »

Forty-one contracts were awarded in the Server Support Devices/Multi-functional Devices, Group C. On October 10th, NASA awarded 41 contracts under its Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SWEP) Group C. For those of you in the D.C. metro area, you’ll be pleased to hear that 12 companies on the vehicle are headquartered in Virginia, and 9 are… Read more »

October 10, 2014 Remember one of the classic lines from the movie Casablanca in which a customer at Rick’s Place observes the gambling and asks, “Are you sure this place is honest?”  And Carl answers, “Honest as the day is long.”  Well, that pretty much sums up the relationship between FedBid and certain Veterans Affairs … Read more »

October 2nd, 2014 Happy end of the government fiscal year to everyone! Let’s start with GSA this week.  It’s own Office of Audits, Office of Inspector General just released a report that the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is not consistently training its CORS in best practices, consistent with certification standards. Recommendations include more school. Here’s the… Read more »

It’s been a busy summer following all the Executive Orders.  Here’s the quick read summary for all you busy multi-taskers.  I close this blog with a wage and hour case in the news.  Let’s go: EO 13673 – Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces EO What?  Requires contractors to report labor violations and notify workers of… Read more »

Continued Noncompliance with 8(a) Subcontracting Limitations The Government Accountability Office (GAO) just released a second report on 8(a) compliance with subcontracting limitations.   The report examined the extent to which 8(a) companies and contracting officers monitor compliance to ensure the 8(a) contractor is performing the requisite amount of work.  The report states: Similar to prior GAO… Read more »