No deals in sight as spending, debt limit deadlines loom
House Republican leaders may be planning to force action on a $1.1 trillion, 12-bill omnibus spending package in early September, but this year’s fiscal follies marking the budget process are expected to last weeks—if not months—before a final plan to fund federal agencies is set, budget analysts said. President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Senate …
Read MoreBGOV launches 8(a) Recompete Opportunities dashboard
This analysis was first available to Bloomberg Government subscribers About 9,500 federal contracts worth $14 billion that were awarded using the 8(a)set-aside program will be up for grabs starting Sept. 1, when the 3,300 8(a) companies that received the work will have graduated from the program and will be ineligible for follow-on awards. Clients can …
Read MoreTrump has three North Korea options — all are bad
This analysis was first available to Bloomberg Government subscribers. As the world tries to process the news that North Korea probably can put a nuclear weapon on an ICBM and President Donald Trump trades barbs with Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un, the real question is: What happens now? For the U.S., there really are three basic options: a military strike, …
Read MoreCivilian agency data, cloud spending languishes: This is IT
Civilian federal agency spending on data centers and cloud computing is stagnating, according to Bloomberg Government’s analysis of information technology budget submissions. Spending on data centers by nondefense agencies will slow to $3.03 billion in fiscal 2017 from $3.08 billion last year, the submissions show. The stagnation follows a sharp drop in fiscal 2016 from …
Read MoreU.S. Army seeks virtual reality trainer for infantry, observers
The U.S. Army wants a new virtual trainer that combines two existing systems in a contract potentially worth tens of millions of dollars, according to a sources-sought notice. Current virtual trainers use an indoor environment where soldiers can simulate missions including hitting moving targets, firing machine guns in pairs, conducting ambush missions, and training forward observers to …
Read MoreRace to the finish — Maximizing Q4 opportunities
For federal vendors, the fourth quarter of the federal fiscal year is key: Government spending surges, and savvy contractors are also laying the groundwork for fiscal 2018. In a recent webinar, Bloomberg Government analysts discussed the government’s fourth-quarter spending trends and opportunities. Participating in the webinar were analysts Kevin Brancato and Daniel Snyder, and sales …
Read MorePrepping for the government’s Q4 spending spree? We released a tool to help.
On average, almost one-third of all federal contract obligations are awarded in the fourth quarter. The spending trend has been incredibly consistent, with sequestration and political changes not leading to dramatic shifts in action in Q4. As companies gear up for the government’s Q4 spending surge, Bloomberg Government has released a new Opportunity Search so …
Read MoreWe surveyed capture managers, and three questions were top of mind
Winning government contracts is twofold – finding opportunities is just as important as surfacing the right opportunity. Federal business development and sales teams regularly use Bloomberg Government to source opportunities and build their pipelines, but we’ve recently seen a surge in interest from their counterparts on capture teams. Capture managers are responsible for identifying opportunities and coming …
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