Acquisition & Contracting

Aggregates federal acquisition content by providing one website for regulations, systems, resources, opportunities, and training.

Resources for the federal acquisition workforce

Authoritative source for summary-level Federal procurement data. US government-wide procurement data. It contains information on contracts whose estimated value is $3,000 or more or that may be $3,000 or more, including every modification to that contract, regardless of dollar value.

Although full use of this site requires a subscription (which we do not have), there is a lot of freely available useful information about Federal Contracts.

OMB site hosting federal procurement policy (circulars, guides, memoranda, policy letters, reports, etc.) and related links. This link is to the Obama archives site, which is the most recent linked from the OMB site.

For anyone interested in performance-based contracting this site is a gold mine. It explains the process in detail and has a large library of relevant federal regulations and policies and a helpful list of links to various government agency performance-based contracting sites.

This free federal government site provides a single searchable interface for finding Federal contract awards including the name of the entity receiving the award, the amount of the award, the information on the award including transaction type, funding agency, etc., the location of the entity receiving the aware, and more.

(from Center for Effective Government, formerly OMB Watch)
See particularly their Contracts database, which allows you to search federal contracts by contractor, location, and contracting agency.

An independent nonprofit that "investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government."

Excellent selection of links for those interested in Federal and DOD acquisition and contracting.