Advocacy Memos – GTS Coalition https://gt.gtscoalition.com Advocating for small and mid-size security companies in the Federal security market Tue, 22 May 2018 14:45:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 OMB Issues Policy Memorandum to Provide Prompt Payment to Small Business Subcontractors https://gt.gtscoalition.com/omb-issues-policy-memorandum-to-provide-prompt-payment-to-small-business-subcontractors/ Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:34:39 +0000 https://www.gtscoalition.com/?p=2712 The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a Policy Memoranda M-12-16 providing for the prompt payment to small business subcontractors. The Memoranda establishes a one-year initiative to temporarily accelerate Federal payments to prime contractors so they are able to expedite payments to their small business subcontractors. DHS has issues a Federal Acquisition Regulation deviation to allow DHS contracting officers to insert a new contract clause to DHS contracts, solicitations and resultant contracts. The new clause requires prime contractors, upon receipt of accelerated payments from the government to make accelerated payments to small business contractors to the maximum extent practicable after receipt of proper invoice and dcoumentation from the subcontractor. The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council has opened a case to undertake a rule making and obtain public comment to further implement OMB’s policy.

The full Memoranda is available here.

]]> Member Memo on March Meeting with Dr. Nick Nayak, CPO, DHS https://gt.gtscoalition.com/member-memo-on-march-meeting-with-dr-nick-nayak-cpo-dhs/ Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:24:48 +0000 https://www.gtscoalition.com/?p=1482 GTSC met with Chief Procurement Officer of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Dr. Nick Nayak and Ombudsman Mui Erkun to discuss ways industry and DHS could communicate more effectively and work together more closely. Read the Member Memo here.

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