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While the Federal Government spends billions annually through contracts with industry, many products and services are purchased, from pencils to spaceships. Most people don't understand that the...

As a contracting officer, I remember dropping RFPs on my way out the door for lots of holidays: 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and yes, gulp, even before the Christmas Holiday. In my defense,...

As a young contracting officer, it was drilled into my head that conversations with contractors were very dangerous.  The reason was that any conversation with one contractor could lead to other...

“What?! That’s in my contract?” That is not a phrase any contractor wants to say. However, that’s exactly what a small business owner realized after I reviewed his contract a few weeks ago. I...

What is Functional Physical Fitness  Functional Physical Fitness is the ability to safely perform daily physical activities. The idea is to have enough general fitness that we can do more and get...

Every sport has a rule book.  It’s hard to win if we don’t know the rules. The pro baseball rulebook is less than 200 pages. The pro football rulebook is less than 100 pages…and within both are an...

I enjoy government contracting.    The point of a government contract is to meet the mission of the agency through leveraging the resources from the private sector. Contracts do not exist to exist....

Tariffs are a tax on goods that enter the country. They are not new. In 1913, the Underwood Tariff Act essentially moved us from using tariffs to raise taxes and instead use federal income tax. This...