Deltek Inc. has launched a new database for contractors to follow agencies’ spending on task orders, the company announced Tuesday. The GovWin IQ Task Order Awards database intends to deliver information and analytics of task order spending and overview more than 5,000 of the General Service Administration’s spending and contract schedules for information technology and [...]
Jeff Sorenson is a vice president and partner in A.T. Kearney’s aerospace and defense practice. He is responsible for helping lead the company’s practice that aims to reduce acquisition costs and increase efficiencies within the public sector. The former Army chief information officer recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about his Army experience and his perspective to [...]
For the fall issue of GovCon Exec Magazine, Mark Gerencser, managing partner for Booz Allen Hamilton’s global commercial business, spoke at length with editor Gerry Simone about the potential for government, industry and civil partnership to help address the U.S.’ most pressing infrastructure needs. The piece was a forward-looking breakout where Gerencser made clear where [...]
A Bloomberg Government study has found that U.S. government spending on multiple-award contracts (MACs) grew twice as fast as total contract spending between 2006 and 2010, with MAC spending increasing 49 percent to $121 billion over the period. “Multiple-award contracts are starting to become the center of the universe,” Jaime Garcia, president of Washington-based Seville Government Consulting told [...]
GovWin recently held the webinar on how to help small businesses break into government contracting. The webinar, titled Securing Government Contracts: Lessons Learned from Successful SMBs, featured experts who explained how getting into the industry works. The panel of experts highlighted the ways small companies can break into the industry, including building relationships with small [...]
SRA announced its multiaward contract with the Defense Department. The blanket purchase agreement was awarded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Defense, Research and Engineering and the contract is worth $100 million over five years. The firm will provide subject matter expertise in engineering, DoD acquisition and program management and will help [...]
The Air Force is extending a program that provides agencies with contracts for communications equipment and services. The program, Network Centric Solutions, works with such companies as Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics Corp, among many others. The current extension will run through until September 2012, while the new contract runs [...]
