In 2014 an announcement was made with plans to embark upon a new paradigm for purchasing by moving from managing purchases and prices individually across thousands of procurement units, to managing entire categories of common spend and total cost. The intention is to apply the principles of Category Management – used extensive in industry and other countries – to the Federal acquisition process. This is intended to be more than jus...

Want to do business with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Have questions about current procurement rules, changes or how the VA will create business opportunities for small business under this new administration!” Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance on Wednesday, February 15th at the 20 F Street Conference Center for Straight Talk featuring Thomas Leney. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs OSDBU focuses on growing small busin...

Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance on Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 for Agile in Action: Fail Fast, Recover Quickly. This half day seminar will shine a light on the Government’s shift to Agile services and its impact on both federal agencies and the Small Business community. This event will gather leaders from a broad cross-section of Federal agencies to share lessons learned and best practices for making agencies efficient and cost...

Please join us for our November General Membership Meeting taking place on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at the Fairview Park Marriott, 3111 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church VA, 22042. We’re very excited that our featured speaker will be Sonny Bhagowalia, Chief Information Officer, Department of Treasury. Come out to the meeting to hear about what’s currently going on within the agency, the current priorities and initiatives, as we...

Join ACT-IAC Rocky Mountain Chapter on November 16th, 2016 for DevOps for Government, a half day seminar focusing on the importance of DevOps and how it is implemented to bring increased efficiencies throughout different types of organizational environments. The event will consist of keynote presentations from Melissa Tondi, of Disrupt Consulting, Mark Borowski of IBM, and will be followed up by government panelists participating in discussion...

Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance on Wednesday, November 9th for Straight Talk featuring Richard Young. Mr. Young serves as the CIO of the United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Services. During this presentation Richard will discuss the mission of USDA FAS, the direction of USDA FAS IT initiatives and the role that small businesses can take in helping the agency achieve it's mission. He will provide pointers to h...

There is still a lot to learn about how the DATA Act will change the way you do your job. In fact, 68% of government attendees recently surveyed said the DATA Act will directly impact their role. Do you know how it will impact yours? The Act’s implementation deadline is May 2017; register for this webinar to learn about: Background and goals of the DATA Act Preparation for the DATA Act Current state of implementation Expected outcomes Re...

Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance and the United States Small Business Administration on Thursday May 12th at 1:00 PM ET for a webinar focused on the advantages of utilizing a Mentor Protégé relationship. Our featured speaker this month is Alisa Sheard who is a Business Opportunity Specialist with the SBA. She has been with the agency for over three years and has a background in business development, marketing and entrepre...

Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance on Thursday, May 5th at the Westin Tysons Corner for Straight Talk featuring Keith Nakasone, Senior Procurement Executive with the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Nakasone started his civil service career in 1989 specializing in the field of Procurement with an emphasis in Telecommunications and IT Services, Hardware and Software. His 26 years of experience include various positions with DoD, DIS...

Join the ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance for Straight Talk featuring: Jolene Merkel Deputy Director of the Small Business Development Program Office Marcus Benefield Management/Program Analyst at the Federal Aviation Administration. During this interactive session, both Ms. Merkel and Mr. Benefield will discuss the importance of the Federal Avaiation Administration’s Mentor Protégé program and provide details for those look...