Federal Contracting Opportunities for Design & Construction

February 14, 2013, Milwaukee, WI (Milwaukee War Memorial)

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Topics include:

.....The Federal Market Opportunity

.....Understanding the Role of Small and Disadvantaged Business

.....Investing in the Federal Market for Increased Revenue Potential - active and successful Federal contractors will speak to both investment and return in this mareket for design & construction

.....Getting Started in the Federal Market and Next Steps

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Sequestration effects becoming clear for DoD

By Jared Serbu of Federal News Radio - January 28, 2013

As part of its planning for sequestration, the Department of Defense said it's getting rid of tens of thousands of temporary employees, and on Friday, it made clear that should the automatic budget cuts occur, the remainder of the civilian workforce would face furloughs of one day per week without pay for the rest of fiscal year 2013.

A Pentagon memo earlier this month gave defense components the go-ahead to terminate temporary hires and stop renewing term employees. Ashton Carter, the author of that memo, told Pentagon reporters on Friday that has largely happened. Forty-six thousand temporary workers have already been let go in anticipation of sequestration, a prospect that's been hanging over the government's head for a year and a half, but one that DoD's leadership apparently believes is increasingly likely.

 

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Wisconsin companies received contract extensions from the government as suppliers to the military.

Criticare Systems Inc. of Waukesha, Wis. will receive $17,799,831 for patient monitoring systems, subsystems, accessories, consumables, spare/repair parts, and training. The work will be completed by January 31, 2014. The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies will benefit from their equipment.

The Oil Gear Co. of Milwaukee had the second option year on a contract exercised. They will earn up to $16,000,000 for meter assembly skids and fuel for use by the Army. This contract goes through January 28, 2014.

Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., was awarded a $10,812,006 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the field service representative to support the M-ATV program. Work will be performed in Oshkosh and Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2013. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Warren, Mich., is the contracting activity (W56HZV-12-C-0281).

Whitehouse publishes NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION SHARING December 2012

 

The STRATEGY focuses on five goals:

 

1.  Drive collective action through collaboration and accountability

2.  Improve information discovery and access through common standards

3.  Optimize mission effectiveness through shared services and interoperability

4.  Strengthen information safeguarding through structural reform, policy and technical solutions

5.  Protect privacy, civil rights and civil liberties through consistency and compliance

 

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GSA's Tangherlini sets new priorities as part of reform efforts -
by Jason Miller on Jan 15, 2013

Dan Tangherlini, the General Services Administration's acting administrator, seems to be indicating he's in for the long term. April after a conference spending scandal rocked the agency, detailed in a memo to employees, which was posted on his blog, Monday afternoon a new mission and new priorities for GSA.

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Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter's guidance on planning for sequestration - January 10, 2013

After months of near-silence on planning for sequestration, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter on January 10, 2013 instructed Pentagon managers to prepare specific actions in case Congress and the White House fail to enact a new budget deal.

Carter’s guidance memo to all top service and civilian directors authorized such steps as a hiring freeze, a review of contracts, cessation of travel and supply purchases, as well as release of temporary employees. Near-term actions should be accompanied by “intensified” long-term planning, it said. 

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