Government Contracting
Thursday Transactions: Your Weekly Recap of the Biggest GovCon M&A Activity
By John Adams at 11 March, 2010, 2:45 pm
This week’s GovCon M&A activity was headlined by IBM finalizing their deal to purchase NISC. IBM boss Chuck Prow shared his thoughts.
Meanwhile, BAE and Northrop teamed to pursue a deal with the Army to provide ground combat vehicles.
Also, MAXIMUS teamed up with Broadbean and KPP split from OAOT.
Should GovCon Expect a Surge in Next Generation Nuclear Power Plant Deals?
By John Adams at 11 March, 2010, 1:49 pm
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has awarded Westinghouse Electric Co. and General Atomics a $40 million contract for “conceptual design and planning work” on the Next Generation Nuclear Plant (NGNP).
The award has the potential to signal an upswing in contracts being issued to firms in support of the NGNP. Chu and the Administration will [...]
Wednesday Wins: Your Weekly Recap of the Biggest GovCon Contract Awards
By John Adams at 10 March, 2010, 3:23 pm
Good news for Northrop Grumman this week: the firm landed a $100 million BPA to go along with a $775 million CANES award from the Navy.
SAIC turned heads with a $625 million software deal from the Navy and added a BPA through subsidiary R.W. Beck for good measure.
Paul Cofoni chimed in on CACI’s new DoD [...]
Jonas Blogs on “Smarter-er” Organizations
By John Adams at 10 March, 2010, 2:28 pm
In a recent blog post titled “On A Smarter Planet…Some Organizations Will Be Smarter-er Than Others,” Jeff Jonas described what will happen to firms who handle prediction-enabling information better than others.
“The winners will be those organizations that make better decisions, faster,” writes Jonas. “How fast? Fast enough to do something smart as the transaction is happening, [...]
Executive Spotlight: Tom Carter of CIBER
By Ellen Scott at 5 March, 2010, 10:57 am
Tom Carter joined CIBER back in April of 2008 as the Vice President for Contracts Management in the Federal Government Division. We had the opportunity to ask him what he learned in his time in procurement at SAIC, where he worked prior to joining CIBER. We also learned more about the business CIBER is doing [...]
Read More >>Executive Spotlight: Kirk Herdman of GTEC
By Ellen Scott at 2 March, 2010, 11:48 am
Kirk Herdman is the Senior Vice President of Business Development and Operations for Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. We had the chance to ask him about GTEC’s strategy to maintain competitiveness and any possible business development challenges he sees in the future. In our interview, Herdman tells us how he likes to spend his [...]
Read More >>DHS Looks at In-Sourcing, Will Other Agencies Follow?
By Jim Garrettson at 1 March, 2010, 2:05 pm
The issue of in-sourcing, bringing “inherently governmental functions” back inside the government, has become more prevalent during the Obama Administration’s tenure.
On Tuesday of last week, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and ranking member Susan Collins sent a letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano pronouncing their astonishment at [...]
Anatomy of a Protest: A Little Knowledge Saves a Lot of Legal Fees
By Jack Mann at 17 February, 2010, 1:12 pm
2009 saw two protests of billion-dollar contracts, resulting in billions of potential revenue changing hands. First: the numerous protests surrounding the design/build contract for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) which will replace the Humvee.
Reuters calls the JLTV contract a $10 billion contract, with a total potential value of $70 billion. Most media outlets quote [...]
New Desktops Won’t Close Real Tech Gap
By Peter Butler at 27 January, 2010, 6:01 pm
A top Obama Administration official recently claimed “federal workers having better computers at home than in the office” has led to a technology gap between the public and private sectors that nets “billions of dollars in waste.” Unfortunately, the comments fell short of addressing the real crisis for America’s CIOs.
The Hill reported the comments made [...]
In-Sourcing: Be Solution-Oriented
By Jim Garrettson at 16 September, 2009, 12:54 pm
In a recent interview with ExecutiveBiz, Anthony Verna of Paradigm Solutions discussed some of the implications of the emerging trend of competitive in-sourcing in the government contracting market.
Verna says, “…if the government gets a little more traction with sustaining and scaling the acquisition workforce, there will be less large contracts, and those that do endure [...]
