Partial shutdown?

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, accused House Republicans of moving toward a partial government shutdown as leverage against Obama’s immigration measures.

“House Republicans are threatening a partial government shutdown,” Pelosi said on Jan. 12.

The House GOP proposal would fund the Homeland Security Department for fiscal 2015 but also would cancel all of Obama’s immigration measures. It is expected to be vetoed by Obama.

10 “Super Categories”

As a step toward category management, the U.S. government is focusing on 10 “super categories” that cost agencies $277 billion in fiscal 2013, about two-thirds of total federal spending on goods and services, Anne Rung, administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Police, wrote in a blog post.

The Top 10 are:

• Facilities/Construction: $72 billion.
• Professional Services: $64 billion
• Information Technology: $47 billion.
• Transportation and Logistics Services: $34 billion.
• Medical: $33 billion.
• Industrial Products and Services: $12 billion.
• Security and Protection: $5 billion.
• Human Capital: $4 billion.
• Travel and Lodging: $4 billion.
• Office Management: $2 billion.

The government plans to develop and share best practices, provide solutions and manage supply and demand in each category.

More information: http://goo.gl/ET2lJw

Fee cut at Los Alamos

The National Nuclear Security Administration awarded only $6.25 million in fees to the Los Alamos Lab contractor, due to substandard performance that resulted in contamination of a treatment facility. The total payment potentially available was $17 million in fixed fees and $40 million in incentive fees, according to Nuclear Watch New Mexico.

Nuclear Watch and the Project on Government Oversight watchdog group had called for major cuts to the contractor’s payment, in light of the performance problems.

The lab contractor is a joint venture headed by the University of California and Bechtel Corp.

More information: http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/?p=1901
http://goo.gl/CkG4gp

SEWP fees drop

NASA is planning to cut its fee for using the “SEWP V” information technology contract to .39% in March, down from .40%, Joanne Woytek, SEWP program manager, told Federal News Radio.

She previously cut the SEWP V fee in October to .40%, from .45%.

SEWP V expects to launch on May 1 once corrective actions are in place to resolve several protests, Woytek said.

SEWP IV took in record revenues of $3 billion in fiscal 2014.

More information: http://goo.gl/idiC4h

Tangherlini to leave GSA on Feb. 13

1,479 census tracts added to HUBZones

FedBid splits into two companies

GSAR gets 48 changes

Defense Dept. orders “tailored” acquisitions

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