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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Wifcon Blog - Another Field Day?:  Travel, Wine, Food, Conference, Contracts, Etc.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["The investigation of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority was prompted by federal, state and local officials' complaints about the escalating cost of the rail project. Their interim report identified a broad range of behavior at MWAA that they said would not be tolerated at other federal, state or local government organizations." ...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Wifcon Blog - Multipe Award Contracts Versus Fixed Price Contracts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["President Barack Obama in 2009 ordered agencies to favor fixed-price contracts over cost-reimbursement contracts, which leave the government exposed to expensive cost overruns. At the same time, the federal government is seeking to do more work with vendors using multiple-award contracts, or MACs, an arrangement designed to speed decision-making...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Wifcon Blog - GSA Has Mail</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, wrote to GSA&rsquo;s inspector general and its acting administrator seeking information regarding the agency&rsquo;s department-wide financial management, its control over its 10 regions, its spending on conferences, and its contracting policies."  See it at...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Wifcon Blog - Thinking Younger</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.wifcon.com/discussion/index.php?app=blog&blogid=1&showentry=2752]]></link>
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		<description><![CDATA["In 2011, federal employees younger than 30 quit their jobs at a rate five times higher than their counterparts over the age of 30. Although 13 percent of 20-somethings left the civil service in 2011, many more are at risk of leaving: 31 percent report that they will consider leaving their organizations in the next year."  See it at...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Wifcon Blog - Out Of Sorts At The Postal Service</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["In a newly filed lawsuit in the Court of Federal Claims, Northrop accuses the Postal Service of violating the terms of the 2007 fixed-price agreement. Specifically, Northrop says the Postal Service imposed numerous after-the-fact changes to the contract that delayed and disrupted delivery of the systems, thereby driving up costs."  See it at ...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Wifcon Blog - &#34;Commercial-Of-A-Type&#34;]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.wifcon.com/discussion/index.php?app=blog&blogid=1&showentry=2750]]></link>
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		<description><![CDATA["While the House Armed Services Committee adopted many of DoD's suggestions when it passed the fiscal 2013 Defense authorization bill, lawmakers decided against including this one, which at least one industry group has called a 'radical' proposal that would alter the process by which all agencies have been allowed to buy commercial items...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Wifcon Blog - Minority Contract Awards Fall</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.wifcon.com/discussion/index.php?app=blog&blogid=1&showentry=2749]]></link>
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		<description><![CDATA["Contracts to the two minority groups fell at a faster pace than all contracts, which dipped 1 percent as the U.S. government slowed spending to help reduce the federal deficit. The gap may reflect stiffer competition over a shrinking pool of revenue and the recession&rsquo;s greater impact on black and Hispanic firms."  See it at...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Wifcon Blog - The CIO At Goddard Space Space Flight Center</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.wifcon.com/discussion/index.php?app=blog&blogid=1&showentry=2748]]></link>
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		<description><![CDATA["Whether it&rsquo;s coming up with a secure way for employees to use iPads at work, helping scientists tap supercomputers in the cloud or providing the communication link for the president to speak with U.S. astronauts in orbit, Adrian Gardner is rarely short on fresh challenges as CIO at NASA&rsquo;s Goddard Space Flight Center."  An interesting...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Wifcon Blog - Does The U. K. Evaluate Proposals Better Than The U. S.?</title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.wifcon.com/discussion/index.php?app=blog&blogid=1&showentry=2747]]></link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've found some things from across the Atlantic, specifically the United Kingdom, this morning from a blog about proposal evaluation.  The internet and its web sites provides us with the opportunity to see how other countries and their contracting types do the same or similar things.  Below are links to the 5 parts of this blog entry.  There are...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Wifcon Blog - Are GSA's Issues Caused By A Sales Led Approach?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the United Kingdom, one columnist writes about his discussion about a U. S. contracting type.<br />
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"The problem is", he said, "their role and operating model was changed a few years ago. It was decided that they would have to go and sell their services to other Government organisations, and persuade them to use the GSA contracts and...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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