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  • Harpoon Ventures Helps Tech Startups Navigate Government Contracting Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harpoon Ventures Helps Tech Startups Navigate Government Contracting Process

    Harpoon Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital firm, has raised a new $120 million fund as it continues to help early-stage technology startups win federal contracts, Fast Company reported Tuesday. Former servicemen William Allen and Larsen Jensen founded Harpoon in 2018 and have helped startups gain access to 52 federal contracts valued at $496 million […] More

  • Report: Federal Cloud, E-Commerce Programs May Drive Growth for Amazon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Federal Cloud, E-Commerce Programs May Drive Growth for Amazon

    The U.S. government may provide the largest growth opportunity for Amazon as the company competes for the Defense Department’s potential 10-year, $10B cloud contract, CNN Business reported Thursday. The report noted that Amazon is considered to be the frontrunner for the single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract. The JEDI program could position the Seattle-based e-commerce firm […] More

  • Unisys’ PV Puvvada Cites As-a-Service Model as One of Federal Procurement Trends - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ PV Puvvada Cites As-a-Service Model as One of Federal Procurement Trends

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys’ federal systems business, said in an interview that aired Tuesday on Federal News Radio that one of the trends he sees in federal procurement is the government’s increasing interest in as-a-service business model. “It’s generally leading toward if you want to be agile, provide me as service on an agile team […] More

  • GSA Seeks Public Input to Modify IT Schedule 70 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Seeks Public Input to Modify IT Schedule 70

    General Services Administration head Denise Turner Roth has announced GSA’s move to solicit input from industry in an effort to help businesses gain more access to the federal procurement space. Roth said Thursday the request for information aims to modify GSA’s IT Schedule 70 in order to attract increased participation from the private sector. “And […] More

  • Deltek's John Slye: Agencies Lump IT Spending in Q4 Over Past 5 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s John Slye: Agencies Lump IT Spending in Q4 Over Past 5 Years

    Federal agencies have consistently purchased engineering and technical services, IT and telecom services and automatic data processing software the most during the fourth quarters of the past five fiscal years, reports Deltek‘s John Slye. Slye writes Tuesday that this trend is based on contract records in the Federal Procurement Data System, which show that agencies have allotted their remaining budgets […] More