As Trump’s White House sees things, the General Services Administration should take on substantially all of the responsibility for managing the federal government’s acquisitions of goods and services. Frank Konkel, editor-in-chief for GovExec’s publications including us, and WT’s editor Nick Wakeman broke the story on May 21 of how GSA is planning to absorb major IT contracts run by the National Institutes of Health and NASA. That and GSA’s other moves down the consolidation path are the starting and ending points for this episode featuring Frank, Nick and Ross Wilkers that covers the wide spectrum of changes across the entire GovCon ecosystem happening as they recorded. The Federal Acquisition Regulation overhaul effort and what today’s world of government-industry engagement looks like were also on their discussion agenda, among other items. WT 360: Clear themes to note from the emerging structural changes to acquisition WT 360: Our EIC Frank Konkel on GSA, Google and the government as a single whole customer Industry awaits significant disruption as GSA works on contract takeovers GSA prepping plans to move NASA SEWP and NIH contract vehicles under its management Inside GSA’s AI strategy: Using the tech while learning how to buy it GSA’s procurement chief details administration’s acquisition reform plans ANALYSIS: GSA's new procurement strategy begins with consumer tech GSA, Salesforce agree to major Slack discounts for government Trump orders structural changes to rules covering $1T in federal spending The acquisition rule (re)writers really want you to have your say Trump administration releases first wave of acquisition regulation changes Rewrite of market research rules aims to give agencies more flexibility FAR overhaul: The challenges in tackling federal procurement’s 5,000-page beast
