Trump’s “Penny Plan” for civilian federal agencies

President-elect’s “Penny Plan” for civilian federal agencies released in September is getting more attention.

According to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Trump’s Penny Plan would reduce the caps on non-defense discretionary spending by 1% a year, with no allowance for inflation. Currently, the caps allow for $518 billion spending a year.

The committee estimates that Trump’s plan would save roughly $740 billion, and would shrink the non-defense discretionary budget by roughly 25%, within 10 years.

While Trump says the plan would save $1 trillion over 10 years, the committee believes the actual savings would be less than that.

More information: Committee analysis: http://goo.gl/j3xJkC

Navy contractor hack

The Navy said unknown hackers gained access to sensitive personal information of 130,000 U.S. sailors. The hack reportedly occurred through a laptop used by a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services employee working on a Navy contract.

The data affected included Social Security numbers for former and current sailors.

Investigation is continuing, and the sailors are being provided with credit monitoring services.

Order-Level Materials

The proposed rule on purchasing Order-Level Materials within GSA Schedules contracts does not create the parity that the government aimed for, the Coalition for Government Procurement said.

“Unfortunately the changes proposed by this rule will not result in a program equally as flexible as the Schedule’s competitor vehicles,” CGP wrote in comments.

More information: CGP statement: http://goo.gl/cqPY24

Chats with industry

There’s a new proposed rule on federal-industry communications:

“Acquisition personnel are permitted and encouraged to engage in responsible and constructive exchanges with industry, so long as those exchanges are consistent with existing law and regulation and do not promote an unfair competitive advantage to particular firms,” the Federal Register notice states.

More information: Federal Register notice: http://goo.gl/lScwmU

Judges block Fair Pay, overtime rules

Six-month CR appears likely

Trump names Cabinet nominees

VA prepares $25B VECTOR prof. services contract

Column: A scramble-free way to prepare for a Labor Department audit

Washington Insider:

Correction:

In the Nov. 4 article, “ASBL lawsuit denied,” the article stated that the first time the 23% small business goal was met was in fiscal 2013. Actually, it was met for the first time in fiscal 2005. We regret the error.