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 Contracts

  1. Former Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens testifies before the House Armed Services Committee in 2012. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

    As federal belts tighten, contractor CEOs enjoy million-dollar raises

    On the same day in March that Lockheed Martin warned that the sequester could lead to thousands of employee furloughs and layoffs, the nation’s largest federal contractor disclosed that it had just boosted the compensation of its former CEO by more than $2 million.

    • Apr. 23, 2013
  2. General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller STAFF

    Feds investigate office supply vendor

    The government is investigating whether an office supply contractor has been improperly selling products made in China in violation of the Trade Agreements Act, court records show.

    • Apr. 18, 2013
  3. GAO questions metrics of training effectiveness for contracting staffs

    The federal government spends tens of millions of dollars to train contracting officials each year, but agencies don’t always know whether all the coursework is making a difference, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday.

    • Apr. 16, 2013
  4. Former OPM director John Berry is seen in a file photo. File

    Focus of IG investigation now oversees GSA’s IT supply schedule program

    An ongoing investigation by the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general into contract steering and wasteful spending raises questions about a former OPM official who left the agency in September 2011 to oversee the General Services Administration’s biggest federal supply schedules program.

    • Apr. 16, 2013
  5. U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo. Getty Images

    Lawmaker presses agencies to abide by small biz law

    The chairman of the House Small Business Committee on Tuesday called on 35 federal agencies to provide details on their compliance with new federal provisions aimed to help small businesses compete for federal contracts.

    • Apr. 16, 2013
  6. Contractor pleads guilty in bribery, bid-rigging case

    A northern Virginia technology contracting firm and its former president pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington to bribery charges in what prosecutors call the largest bid rigging scam in federal contracting history.

    • Apr. 11, 2013
  7. There is speculation that sequestration may lead to more contract disputes and bid protests.

    As budgets tighten, contract attorneys expect uptick in bid protests

    Two weeks after sequestration began, contract lawyer Bill Spriggs got a call from a vendor client upset that a federal contracting official had just ordered it to cut its price by 10 percent for “sequestration-related cuts” without a change in service levels.

    • Apr. 3, 2013
    • IT /
    • Contracts

    GAO denies bid protest of controversial IRS contract

    The Government Accountability Office on Tuesday denied a protest from bidders challenging the award of a big Internal Revenue Service technology contract that a top House Republican wants investigated.

    • Apr. 2, 2013
  8. Judge orders GSA to re-evaluate e-travel contract award

    A federal judge has ordered the General Services Administration to re-evaluate bids for its billion-dollar e-travel contract awarded last June.

    • Mar. 28, 2013
    • IT /
    • Contracts

    More than 200 at Lockheed Martin take buyouts

    More than 200 midlevel managers at Lockheed Martin are leaving the company this week with buyouts.

    • Mar. 18, 2013
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