All Episodes

568 - Overhaul of FAR Part 37 (with Shelley Hall)

567 - Keeping the Best Deal. Forever. (The Most Favored Customer Framework)

566 - Small Business Goals Update (with Bill Scheier)

565 - Warfighting Acquisition System Pressure Points inside the FAR: Part 2 (with Hector Navarro)

564 - The GovCon Ecosystem

563 - The Overhaul of the Unsolicited Proposal (in Part 15)

562 - Overhaul of FAR Part 13 (with Shelley Hall)

561 - WOSB Set-Asides

560 - Overhaul of FAR Part 8 (with Shelley Hall)

559 - How much is Process vs Relationship (Part 2 of 2)

398 - Contract Closeout (with Joe Luetke)

558 - The Rewrite of Part 19 (Part 4: SDVOSB)

557 - What is 'The Procurement List'? (w/ Shelley Hall)

556 - The Shift Toward GSA

555 - Finding Signal in the Noise (How to Move Faster in GovCon)

554 - Inside Awarding A&E Contracts (Qualifications Come First!)... (with Bryan Henson)

553 - The Thinking Part of the Job

552 - Energy Savings Performance Contracts: A GovCon Tool That Matters Right Now (with Matt Urbanic)

551 - The Rewrite of FAR Part 19 (Part 3: HUBZones)

550 - The FAR Overhaul Series: Navigating What’s Next with NASA’s Senior Procurement Executive Marvin Horne

549 - Why ‘Small Business’ Means Something Different in GovCon

548 - Warfighter Acquisition System: Pressure Points inside the FAR (w/ Hector Navarro)

547- Do's and Don'ts of Capability Statements (w/ Shelley Hall)

546 - The Rewrite of FAR Part 19 (Part 2) - The SB Set Aside

545 - The 2025 GovCon Review

544 - The Rewrite of FAR Part 19 (Part 1: Reframing)

543 - Not All Times Are Equal

542- Opening the Box After the Shutdown—What Actually Changed

541 - Another Way the Government Buys Services

540 - The 3 Deciders (Revisited)

539 - PBSA: From Tasks To Outcomes

538 - Skyway GovCon Frameworks

537 - Contract Management Planning (w/ Angela Jacobs)

536 - GovCon Meets Chesterton's Fence

535 - Moving at the Speed of GovCon

534 - Government Shutdown Planning

533 - 2025 Threshold Updates

532 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 5

Re-Release 223 - ShutDown Recovery

531 - The 6 Ps of Commerciality - Part 2 (with Troy Small)

530 - The 6 Ps Of Commerciality Part 1 (w/ Troy Small)

529 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 12 (Part 2)

528 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 12

527 - Small Business Search (DSBS Update) - w/Shelley Hall

526 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 6 (Part 4 of 4) with Steve Lucianetti

525 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 6 (Part 3)

524 - Requirements Contracts - w/ Shelley Hall

523 - Overhaul of FAR Part 18 (Emergency Acquisitions) w/Cesar Lopez

522 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 6 (Part 2)

521 - What is CMMC? (with Michael Greenman)

520 - The "Overhaul" of FAR 6 (Part 1)

519 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 43 (w/ Steve Lucianetti)

518 - What's an FFRDC?

517 - GovCon Weight Class (Government)

516 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 10

515 - The Power of FOIAs (w/ Vicky Strycharske)

514 - Buying Commercial Stuff - FASTER! (FAR Part 13.5 with Shelley Hall)

513 - The "Overhaul" of FAR Part 1

512 - What is NAF Contracting? (Non-Appropriated Funds)

511 - The Revolutionary FAR Overhaul Overview

510 - What's a Protest Intervention? (w/ Maria Panichelli)

509 - What is a Commercial Solutions Opening?

508 - The 3 GovCon Forces

507 - Sunsetting Regulations

506 - How much of the sale is Process vs Relationship? Part 1 of 2

505 - What's changing (or not) in GovCon?

504 - The FAR is not the Play Book

503 - The VETS First Contracting Program

502 - Insuring Against Performance Risk in GovCon

501 - GovCon and Tariffs

500 - The Quincentenary (the 500th Episode)

499 - Working with the FAR we have... w/Shelley Hall (10 Minute Sample)

498 - What's an A-76 Competition? (10 Minute Sample)

497 - GovCon Weight Class (Contractors) (10 Minute Sample)

496 - The Other Costs of Proposals (10 Minute Sample)

495 - Contingency Contracting Part 2 - Processes (10 Minute Sample)

494 - What is Profit? (10 Minutes Sample)

493 - Using the F Word... "Fair" (10 Minute Sample)

492 - What are Liquidated Damages? (10 Minute Sample)

491 - Cutting PALT by Finding Examples (w/Mike Weiland from Govly)

490 - What "IS NOT" a Good Faith Effort? (10 Minute Sample)

489 - What "IS" a Good Faith Effort? (10 Minute Sample)

488 - Notification of Changes

487 - What's an Request for Equitable Adjustment (REA)? (w/ Angela Jacobs)

486 - Doing GovCon Market Research

485 - GovCon Vocab (Proposal vs Tender) - 10 minute sample episode

484 - Brand Name or Equal - 10 minute Sample Content

485 - GovCon Vocabulary - Volume 4 (Proposal vs Tender)

484 - What is Brand Name or Equal? (w/ Steve Lucianetti)

483 - Fixed Price with EPA (Economic Price Adjustment)

482 - Who is responsible for Contract Quality?

481 - What goes in a Subcontracting Plan?

480 - What are BOS Contracts?

479 - What is a Cardinal Change?

478 - Colors of Contract Changes

477 - GovCon Meets LinkedIn (w/Mark Amtower)

476 - What is a Reverse Auction?

475 - What is Section H?

474 - Late Proposals

473 - Writing Requirements (w/Cesar Lopez)

472 - Ethos, Logos, Pathos (From Industry Side)

471 - What is a IGCE?

470 - What are Data Rights? (w/Steve Lucianetti)

469 - What are Key Personnel?

468 - Exemptions to the Service Contract Labor Standards Act - Part 2

467 - Exemptions to the Service Contract Labor Standards Act - Part 1

466 - Basis for Award

465 - Evaluation Criteria and Evaluation Factors

464 - What is a Determination and Finding?

463 - GovCon Vocabulary - Volume 3 (Consolidation vs Bundling)

462 - Place of Performance Under Service Contracts (w/Shelley Hall)

461 - Ethos, Logos, Pathos (from Government side)

460 - Buying "Commercial Services" in GovCon (with Desmond Culler)

459 - What is a Wage Determination?

458 - GovCon Vocabulary - Volume 2 (Shape vs Influence)

457 - GovCon Vocabulary - Volume 1 (Amend vs Modify)

456 - Differences between FED and State-Local w/Troy Francis (Part 2)

455 - What is Incremental Funding?

454 - What is a Capture Manager? (w/Jennifer Namvar)

453 - Ethos, Logos, Pathos

452 - Paths to Competition

451 - Acquisition Forms

450 - Types of Solicitations

449 - What is Severability?

448 - What is Pre-Acquisition? (part 2)

447 - Professional Compensation Plans with Joe Luetke

446 - What are "Open and Frank" Discussions? (Part 2)

445 - What are "Open and Frank" Discussions? (Part 1)

444 - How Does Pricing Affect the Contract? (w/ Heather Teed)

443 - What is Pre-Acquisition? (part 1)

442 - What are Foreign Military Sales?

441 - Why is this Inherently Governmental?

440 - Hiring From the Same Labor Pool

439 - Federal vs. State / Local Contracting (w/Tony Francis)

438 - GovCon Conventions

437 - Finding Contract Awards w/Shelley

436 - What is Acquisition Planning?

435 - Sole Source Awards

434 - Agency Protest with Shelley Hall

433 - Contract Length

432 - Protestor Types

*Full Free Episode* 431- Contingency Contracting (Part 1)

430 - Advisory Multi-Step Process

429 - Advisory Downselect with Trevor Wagner

428 - Thresholds

427 - Consent to Subcontract (Part 2 of 2)

426 - Oral Proposals Part 2

425 – Small Business Dynamic Search Database w/ Shelley Hall

424 - Problem Solved

*Full Free Episode* 423 – What’s the Problem?

422 - Oral Proposals

421 - Pre vs Post Award Protest

420 - What is OASIS+?

419 - What is SETA Support?

418 – SMBs in GovCon (or Not)

417 - Notice of Intent to Bid

416- Unduly Restrictive Requirements w/ Shelley Hall

415 - Consent to Subcontract

414 - AI and GovCon

413 - What is PPQ?

412 - What is PALT?

411 - What is HTRO?

410 - What is a Bridge Contract?

409 - Post-Award Pitfalls

*Full Free Episode* 408 - The Debt Ceiling and GovCon

407 - What is an IDIQ Off-Ramp?

406 - What is Best Value?

405 - The Written Debrief

New Episodes of The Contracting Officer Podcast

399 - The Three Doers

383 - The Process to Relationship Ratio (80-20 Rule Revisited)

331 - The GovCon Acquisition Cube

318 - Gas Gauge

272 - Flossing Your Contracts

221 - Path to Fair Opportunity Part 1

208 - What is LPTA?

118 The 3 Deciders

084 The Execution Time Zones

004 Why do RFPs take so long?

003 What are the Acquisition Time Zones?

001 Why We Created the CO Podcast