The Federal Teaming Review

Intelligence Behind Federal Contracting.

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Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress.

The Federal Teaming Review: Intelligence Behind Federal Contracting.

The Department of Energy does not buy the way most agencies do. It says that roughly 80 percent of its annual procurement base goes to its management and operating (M&O) contracts, the large agreements under which private companies and university consortia run national laboratories, weapons plants and cleanup sites, and that "most Small Business dollars flow through the M&Os and FMCs to Small Business contracting…

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