Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Introducing the Insider
The Industry Defined
HUBZones: Anyone Can Play
Beyond Reproach: The Incumbent's Bind
Breaking Wave: Human Resources BPO
Cooperative Personnel Services: Differentiating Not a Problem
Adventures in Marketing
Policy & Regs: Can We Satisfy the Appetite for Cleared Personnel?
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The Clintons won't mind if we lift the label from their tiff with the White House Travel Office. We apply it to the set of False Claims Act suits concerning travel services rebates brought by a highly qualified and skilled serial whistleblower. He sued not only his former employer, but also other companies. We explain the outlines of his M.O. and where this might lead as whistleblowers discover the similar ways of doing business that companies have. In addition, the government is trying to get ahead of the whistleblowers in one emerging investigation concerning systems integrators.
Both guardian and bane of air travelers nationwide, TSA has had a rocky time with major procurements. (Come to think of it, so do many venerable government organizations.) We identify for prospective TSA suppliers some lessons learned from two controversial contracts.
It's safe to assume that in the current and future environment, more firms will experience the hot light of scrutiny from federal investigators of various types. Alan Chvotkin gives you the fundamental rules of engagement if your firm hears the figurative knock at the door from one of them.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England launched the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Project to find solutions for the ponderous, too-costly processes used to buy major weapons systems. Nonetheless, there is some significant relevance for services firms. We look at the January final report's results concerning the acquisition process itself and weigh its merits and applicability.
The FBI Sentinel support contract competition is slated to go into a third month of overtime, as measured by the Bureau's own timeline. How could it take so long to evaluate the only two offers received? We give you our best informed idea of why. We also revisit the anticipated conflict of interest on the downstream IV&V that will need to be performed on the selected contractor's work; there is some hope on the horizon.
We revisit the issue of major federal contractors who, for their commercial clients, offshore a lot of IT work.
In the hooray department, we look at the recent fire sale by EDS of its AT Kearney management consulting subsidiary. It took more than a decade to do the right thing for an acquisition that was regretted from nearly the beginning.