The White House is working to adapt a new program for procuring Medicare equipment, the New York Times reports. The shift to a competitive bidding process resulted from a one-year experiment where Medicare solicited bids and awarded contracts to 356 suppliers in nine metropolitan areas. Medicare’s usual fee-for-service process lets beneficiaries to select any supplier [...]
Accenture’s federal practice has won eight State Department task orders to help operate the department’s supply chain management system, the company announced Friday. The company will provide services to 20,000 system users at 260 embassies and consulates around the world. Amy Tener, a senior executive who leads the company’s work at the department, said the [...]
Fluor Corp. won a contract with energy technology producer Joule Unlimited to design a renewable fuel production facility in New Mexico. The Irving, Texas-based construction firm said Saturday it will design and build the plant under an engineering, procurement and construction management services contract. The facility is intended to test and scale up liquid fuel production [...]
Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) spoke to us recently about Capitol Hill’s view of government contractors, what jobs he feels are best left inside the government, compensation for procurement personnel, CIO Kundra’s federal dashboard, and more. Moran told us what the new Armed Services bill means for IT RFPs, and weighed in on who the new Cyber [...]
