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The General Services Administration is putting the final touches on its solicitation for the Alliant 3 IT services contract.
But one of the sections that GSA is already finished with is a new approach to attracting small businesses with new or emerging technology capabilities.
Large businesses can get started today on meeting the requirements of GSA’s small business emerging technology solutions engagement requirements under Alliant 3 contract.
Paul Bowen, the director of the center for GWAC programs at GSA, said this evaluation factor is among the first of its kind.
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As they do every four years at this time, political appointees begin to depart. In their absence, contractors should prepare for a slowdown in new and innovative project starts. At least, that is the view of long time federal marketing and sales consultant Larry Allen, who talked with Federal Drive Host Tom Temin.
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Federal investigators have their hands full trying to spot all of the fraud schemes that cost the government billions of dollars every year. AI-powered fraud, utilizing images, has all kinds of potential for mischief. For more on that and how to stop it, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke to the vice president and head of public sector strategy at Socure, Jordan Burris.
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The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) has had a quorum for more than two years. When members were finally approved by the Senate in 2022, they faced a backlog of some 3,800 appeals cases. They two members the board does have are within spitting distance of eliminating the backlog. For an update on this an other matters, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with the MSPB Chairman, Cathy Harris.
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On today's episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin:

How the Merit Systems Protection Board is plowing through its appeals backlog.

How artificial intelligence will make fraud against the government worse.

It's April, but end-of-termism will start to slow federal contracting


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It’s been a year since the Biden administration first called for more frequent, “meaningful” in-person work at agencies. In that time, initial uncertainties over whether a return-to-office would really happen have been replaced with a bigger burning question for federal employees: Why?
Why do feds have to wake up earlier, commute to work and sit at a desk all day? Why is the Biden administration trying to fix something that many don’t believe is broken in the first place? And why aren’t federal leaders’ rationales for returning to the office lining up with many feds’ actual experiences?
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