Topic: Larry Allen

IT acquisition: Pay less now, more later

Given the current budget environment, in which even essential programs are under scrutiny, it's only natural that agencies are pressuring their...

Senior Bowl

The Senior Bowl is an annual college football exhibition game featuring the top NFL draft prospects. The 2009 Senior Bowl is being played on January 24 at at 7:00 p.m. EST at Ladd Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, and is ...
New leader will take over for Larry Allen. Waldron is currently an attorney with the Mayer Brown law firm and previously served in the General Services Administration. Larry Allen has been the coalition's president for 20 years, but is stepping down ...
Coalition chooses former GSA acquisition official and senior procurement executive at the agency.. Waldron is currently an attorney with the Mayer Brown law firm and previously served in the General Services Administration. Larry Allen has been the coalition's president for 20 ...
Regulatory changes offer modest benefits for both small businesses and large companies. The Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council are required to consider adjusting the dollar figure every five years to keep pace with inflation. However, they haven ...

Transparency in contracting remains opaque

Administration officials are asking how they can make acquisitions more open to the public without compromising proprietary data. The councils cited five memos from the Obama administration to prove that transparency is coming to contracting. Putting all that proprietary data online does ...

Treasury plans auctions for $2B services contract

Officials want to use reverse auctions to award task orders under the TIPSS small-business contract. Larry Allen, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, said reverse auctions had their heyday 10 years ago, but people soon found that the approach worked best ...
Manning, Brady top the best of the 2000's, the NFL's 53-player All-Decade team Quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Tom Brady joined two-time selections Willie Roaf, Larry Allen and Warren Sapp among the 53 players announced Sunday as members of the NFL ...

Contractor salary cap raised by OFPP

The Office of Management and Budget has raised the compensation limit allowable under federal contracts to $684,181, a nearly $72,000 increase from last year, according to a Federal Register notice. The Office of Federal Procurement Policy set the fiscal 2008 ...

New reform committee leaders raise questions

Industry leaders wonder if the panel will have the same clout it did under its recent chairmen. Now that the new leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have been chosen, industry leaders wonder if the group will have the ...