(Click on headlines below to read each full story.) Are you innovative enough? Federal agencies push acquisition innovation with new apps and initiatives for small federal contractors and entrepreneurs Would you be surprised to find a federal agency hanging out online with fans of hot rap music artists like Kanye West, Drake and Kendrick Lamar? Auditors fault schedule vendors The General Services Administration’s Multiple-Award Schedules contracts are troubled by three persistent problems requiring attention, the GSA’s inspector general recently declared. Maria Contreras-Sweet confirmed The Senate on March 27 confirmed Maria Contreras-Sweet to head the Small Business Administration. EPA purchase cards flunking More than half of the high-risk purchase card transactions examined at the Environmental Protection Agency were found to be non-compliant with procedures, missing documentation, prohibited, or erroneous, according to a new report from the EPA inspector general. Column: Incurred Cost Submissions - A Primer Many federal contractors are required to complete, certify and submit an annual incurred cost submission (ICE) to their designated federal audit agency. The submissions are due within six months of the end of the contractor’s accounting year. Washington Insider: FAS new directive The Federal Acquisition Service is preparing to issue a new directive on how and when contracting officers must report contacts from interested parties regarding a procurement.... “Urgent” noncompetes The Defense Department reported $12.5 billion in “urgent” noncompetitive contracts from fiscal 2010 to 2012.... HUBZone goals Which eight federal agencies likely have exceeded the government’s 3% HUBZone goal for fiscal 2013?.... OASIS protest loses Aljucar, Anvil-Incus & Co. lost their OASIS protest ....