Agencies use Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) to purchase technology together and lower the cost of IT solutions. The proposal submission period for one of those GWACs, the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 4 (CIO-SP4) contract, ended last week, but the National Institutes of Health’s acquisition vehicle continues to face delays. Alan Thomas, chief operating officer […]
426 companies will compete for up to $50 billion on the new STARS III contract from the General Services Administration. The commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, Sonny Hashmi, says the agency will roll out the new contract in cohorts. Alan Thomas, former commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA and now chief operating […]
The Office of Management and Budget has new rules for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), a government funding vehicle that encourages modernization. The guidance gives agencies options for full, partial or minimal repayment of loans. Alan Thomas, Chief Operating Officer at IntelliBridge and former Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration, […]
The Technology Modernization Fund could get a $1 billion cash infusion if the Senate stimulus bill becomes law. The language of the bill includes some structural changes to the fund too. Alan Thomas, Former Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said he thinks the bill is “reasonably well-written” and that the most important […]
Alan Thomas, Chief Operating Officer at IntelliBridge, goes over three ideas the Biden administration can use for reforming acquisition
Alan Thomas, Chief Operating Officer at IntelliBridge, discusses the DEOS contract re-award and other cloud contracts
Alan Thomas, Former Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, explains how the General Services Administration’s ASTRO master contract supports competition at the task order level
Alan Thomas, Former Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, discusses the introduction of consumption-based pricing for cloud computing services at GSA and situations where it could benefit agencies
