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November 13, 2017 By cs

CDC contracting official indicted by federal grand jury

A federal grand jury has criminally indicted a top contracting official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

According to the Nov. 8, two-count indictment filed in federal court in Atlanta, Carlos Smiley, who was a branch chief in the CDC’s Office of Acquisition Services, is charged with not reporting that he had outside sources of salary or other income greater than $200 “when defendant Smiley knew that such statement and representation was false,” the indictment states.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/11/10/cdc-contracting-official-indicted-by-federal-grand.html

November 13, 2015 By cs

Challenges buy government what contracts can’t

When the government needs to buy supplies or capital items, or it needs to develop a new bomber, it awards a contract. But what if it needs answers that aren’t for sale in the classic sense?

Jenn Gustetic says contracts are how you access value available from companies. But over the past five years, the executive branch has found an effective and relatively inexpensive way to tap into the brain power of individuals. Namely, challenge grants.

Gustetic is the assistant director for open innovation at the Office of Science and Technology Policy. On my show this morning, she noted that as the challenge grant program crosses its fifth birthday, it’s awarded 450 prizes to some 200,000 individuals for a total of about $150 million.

Keep reading this article at: http://federalnewsradio.com/temin/2015/10/challenges-buy-government-contracts-cant/

May 30, 2014 By cs

Pumping up the procurement playbook

The Department of Health and Human Services is experimenting with an innovative IT acquisition playbook that assembles templates that contracting officers could use to make quicker and more inventive buys.

HHS Chief Technology Officer Bryan Sivak said his agency asked a contracting officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to put the playbook together using some of the more innovative procurement methods allowed under the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

“The FAR has room for some interesting things,” Sivak said during a panel discussion on innovation at the Management of Change conference in Cambridge, Md. Unfortunately, there is usually “no time for procurement officers to explore those processes,” he added.

Keep reading this article at: http://fcw.com/articles/2014/05/20/hhs-procurement-playbook.aspx

September 19, 2013 By cs

Departments underspent on small business R&D commercialization

Several departments underspent on small business programs for the commercialization of research and development because they left out entire component agencies from the calculations used to fund the programs, the Government Accountability Office says.

Under two federal programs, agencies must spend a certain percentage of their outside research and development funding on small businesses R&D efforts that align with federal priorities.

But the Transportation Department, for instance, excluded the Federal Aviation Administration from its departmentwide calculation of outside R&D spending, GAO says in a report released Sept. 9. The Health and Human Services Department did the same with both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/departments-underspent-rd-commercialization/2013-09-10

October 23, 2012 By cs

Top 20 contract awards projected to be billions of dollars smaller in 2013

Agencies are expected to open markedly smaller contracts for competition in the coming year, a new market analysis shows.

The top 20 contracts anticipated for fiscal 2013 represent about $92 billion, a 38 percent decrease from the total value of last year’s top 20, which totaled $148.5 billion, according to a report by Deltek market researchers released Wednesday.

For example, the smallest contract included on Deltek’s top 20 list last year was the Defense Department’s contract, to research threats involving weapons of mass destruction, worth $2 billion. This year, the smallest contract, for health marketing communication services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an estimated value of $870 million.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20121010/ACQUISITION03/310100004.

A federal grand jury has criminally indicted a top contracting official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

When the government needs to buy supplies or capital items, or it needs to develop a new bomber, it awards a contract. But what if it needs answers that aren’t for sale in the classic sense?

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