The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently announced the award of a $41.8 million-dollar five-year contract to Ernst and Young LLP (EY) that will replace the decades-long contract held by Dun & Bradstreet to provide entity validation services, currently known as the Data Universal Number System (DUNS®.) This move will affect every federal agency and... Read More
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GSA Reopens Multiple Awards Schedule 75 for Office Supplies Providers
By: Gloria Larkin as published in Business Monthly February 2018 The General Services Administration (GSA) recently announced the release of a new and updated contract to allow new vendors to submit contracts through its Schedule 75 to sell office supplies to federal government agencies. In 2010, the GSA had closed the contract so that only... Read More
Cybersecurity Federal Contracting 2018 Outlook to be Presented at October CyberMaryland Conference
By Gloria Larkin October is National Cybersecurity Month and with the recent Equifax data breach affecting over 143 million people in the U.S., the reality of cybersecurity is hot news in both the public and private sectors. The U.S. Federal Government has been in front of the cybersecurity curve in budgeting billions of dollars for... Read More
Strategic Sourcing Evolves into Category Management
By Gloria Larkin Steve Krauss, Director of the General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Category Management Strategic Execution updated industry on the status of the Category Management Program at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recent “Getting Back 2 Business” Small Business Outreach event held at Towson University in Maryland. Hundreds of large... Read More