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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For three years, OMB's Lines of Business program may have struck some people in the blah, bureaucratic way that characterizes many government reforms. But it's time to get smart on it. LOB is reaching the point where it can make contracts disappear and reappear in new configurations, or bring work in-house that was outsourced. We asked Bruce McConnell, an expert with superlative credentials to attack this subject, to explain it and suggest what to do.
As we shift to a higher gear after Labor Day, we're also inaugurating a new feature. Soapbox gives industry experts a chance in a limited amount of space to make important points about the industry's biggest issues. In this issue, Bob Brudno, an executive recruiter who, among other things, helped SAIC find its current CEO, provides his view on what's happening to the M&A-fed growth thrust in the industry.
We've listened to the recent sporadic allegations that some companies are masquerading as small businesses when they aren't. There's some truth to that in some cases, we think. But the larger truth is that for the most part the apparent misrepresentation of size class to gain preferences in procurements is more a misunderstanding and the result of administrative errors. We asked Alan Chvotkin to examine that hypothesis and give you some advice on how to interpret what you see about this issue, and, how to stay out of trouble.
We take a look at whether the industry has reached the top of its expansion for now; new hope for Boeing on the ethics front; an uncharacteristic conflict-of-interest event at a FFRDC; an unexpected but knowledgeable observation on SAIC's role in the FBI VCF disaster; how past performance can get discounted by direction or habit; and the potentially wild world of performance-based pricing.