On August 7, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14332, “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking”, a sweeping directive that reshapes the federal grantmaking process. Framed as a move to ...
Yogi Berra once said, “The future ain’t what it used to be.” Those who have spent a career in federal procurement have seen many cycles of well-intentioned procurement reform instead create a system ...
Washington, D.C. – Today, President Trump announced a first-of-its-kind overhaul of Federal procurement policy in order to increase competition and efficiency while decreasing costs. The Office of ...
Federal procurement policy is often a laughingstock — and for good reason. Stories of the government paying for $10,000 toilet seats, $1,200 coffee cups and $16,000 minifridges abound. Waste, ...
The president's order stated that “since its inception, the FAR [Federal Acquistion Regulation] has swelled to more than 2,000 pages of regulations, evolving into an excessive and overcomplicated ...
Philadelphia procurement contracts, which totaled about $4B last year, have long been coveted by the region's real estate and construction firms. The way they are allocated has changed dramatically.