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OMB’s new guidance, RFI boost grant modernization efforts

The long-awaited and much-anticipated update to the basic management standards for the federal grants community is out. The Office of Management and Budget’s 2024 Revisions of the Uniform Grants Guidance aim to streamline, simplify and expand the overall reach of the $1.2 trillion in grants and cooperative assistance agencies pay out each year. Jason Miller […]

What to expect at the General Services Administration under Trump Two

When it comes to the government’s procurement tab, the General Services Administration is one of the most influential agencies. It manages many of the contracts from which all agencies buy. And it one of the agencies that helps decide governmentwide procurement policy. So what should happen in the Trump administration at the GSA? The Federal […]

Coming to a contract protest near you, loser pays legal fees

A clause in the Defense Authorization law for 2025 has procurement attorneys sitting up in their chairs. It calls on the Defense Department and the Government Accountability Office to develop a plan to test a novel idea: having companies that lose bid protests to repay DoD for legal costs. Venable procurement attorney Chris Griesedieck the […]

Trump nominees say firing of probationary employees not indiscriminate

Dan Bishop, the nominee to be deputy director for budget at the Office of Management and Budget, is pushing back against the idea that the firing of probationary employees was indiscriminate. The former North Carolina Congressman told Senate lawmakers yesterday during his nomination hearing that there are good reasons for agencies to let go of […]

Why agency leaders need to be more curious to improve CX

The Office of Management and Budget’s recent update to Circular A-11, the budget planning guidance for fiscal 2026, expands and updates agency requirements for customer experience. Section 280 addresses everything from high-impact service providers to understanding how the Paperwork Reduction Act can impact your ability to measure customer experience. Included in the CX section also […]

Government cloud migration

Insight by Deloitte Government cloud migration Cloud migration may have started out as a cheaper, more effective way for federal agencies to store and manage data, but it’s evolved into much more in the past… June 9, 2020 4:58 pm < a min read This content is provided by Deloitte. Cloud migration may have started […]

HR Line of Business sets ‘guiding principles’ for managing the employee lifecycle

Federal human resources employees now have a standard set of data and business elements, and performance measures to lean on as they modernize their hiring and other processes. The HR Line of Business and Quality Service Management Office completed this year-old effort earlier this summer to update the HR business reference architecture. Jeff Pollack, the […]

The need for an integrated, multicloud management approach

Insight by Deloitte The need for an integrated, multicloud management approach Agencies need a holistic approach that allows them to standardize policies, procedures, governance and workflows across their cloud environments. June 9, 2020 4:51 pm < a min read This content is provided by Deloitte. Agencies making the move to the cloud have found that […]

What’s in the Defense policy bill concerned with procurement

As it always does, the National Defense Authorization Act known as the NDAA includes a whole section devoted to federal procurement. We get highlights from attorney Zach Prince of Haynes Boone on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. Tom Temin And we could talk for hours about Title 8, as we could every year. But […]