Archive: competition
Contractors Challenge More Government Bid Awards
Contractors challenged bid awards to competitors significantly more last year, in part because the landscape for government work is expected to become less fruitful in the coming years. But those challenges seem to be having less effect. That's the conclusion of an interesting Robert Brodsky piece in Government Executive. Brodsky's...
By Robert O'Harrow | January 9, 2009; 10:17 AM ET | Comments (1)
The Tanker Saga Goes On
This just in from the Post's Pentagon contracting writer Dana Hedgpeth: The tanker angst continues. It seems that Pentagon folks are irked about an ad that Northrop Grumman ran in The Washington Post on Wednesday, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. In the ad, Northrop claimed that...
By Robert O'Harrow | November 24, 2008; 11:14 AM ET | Comments (0)
What Is The Meaning Of Competition?
A story about a contract at the DHS Office of Counternarcotics this week stimulated a lot of interest from readers. The story spelled out how officials in the office, under pressure to produce a report about how to measure the effectiveness of drug interdiction efforts, took a procurement shortcut...
By Robert O'Harrow | August 23, 2007; 11:03 AM ET | Comments (0)
