Procurement

My theory is that a more relationship-based approach would better enable the government to have success on technology procurements than the seemingly distant and transactional relationship that appears to often exist in traditional procurement.

Yesterday, co-founder and CEO Greg Gershman spoke at the Code for America Summit for a session on Reshaping the Government Technology Ecosystem and what was needed to effect real, sustained change at scale.

Most contracts I’ve seen have a period of performance that starts the day after the award. That doesn’t give the winning vendor much time to assemble an excellent team.

Details have emerged as to just how bad the bad design was that led to the false ballistic missile alert in Hawaii last weekend.

In November 2016, Ad Hoc was one of small group of companies selected as awardees on the Department of Homeland Security's FLASH (FLexible Agile Support for the Homeland) contract.