Frank Konkel

Washington, D.C.

Journalist and Editor-in-Chief at Government Executive

Editor-in-Chief at GovExec Space Project

Editor-in-Chief, @GovExec @michiganstateU alum [email protected]

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Raleigh to launch self-service portal for residents

3 days ago | route-fifty.com | Frank Konkel

LAS VEGAS — This summer, the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, plans to launch a new digital self-service portal that will give its half-million residents a simple, intuitive way to request services, report issues and access records online.
SBA hit with more layoffs

3 weeks ago | govexec.com | Frank Konkel

Small Business Administration employees at the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Servicing Center (CESC) received an email Friday following a brief staff meeting notifying them they would be laid off effective May 16. “As discussed in the meeting today, CESC must reduce its staff,” the email read. “We are exercising the intermittent provision of your employment agreement.
SBA investigating staff for talking to press, former colleagues

1 month ago | govexec.com | Frank Konkel

All Small Business Administration employees received a memo Monday announcing the agency is investigating “numerous reports of current employees engaging in unauthorized communication with former SBA staff members and members of the media.” The memo, authored by SBA General Counsel Wendell Davis and viewed by Government Executive, warned SBA employees they could face firing or legal consequences for such “unauthorized communications.” “Disclosing confidential information or unauthorized...
Google's government deal is the ‘first of many’ to come, DOGE says

1 month ago | washingtontechnology.com | Frank Konkel

The Department of Government Efficiency and leader Elon Musk Friday praised a deal struck between the General Services Administration and Google April 10 that offers Google’s Workspace collaboration and communications platform to governmentwide customers at a 71% discount through Sept. 30. “Good work by [GSA] for inking its first consolidated deal following the President’s Executive Order: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement,” DOGE said in a post on X.
Google's government deal is the ‘first of many’ to come, DOGE says

1 month ago | nextgov.com | Frank Konkel

The Department of Government Efficiency and leader Elon Musk Friday praised a deal struck between the General Services Administration and Google April 10 that offers Google’s Workspace collaboration and communications platform to governmentwide customers at a 71% discount through Sept. 30. “Good work by [GSA] for inking its first consolidated deal following the President’s Executive Order: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement,” DOGE said in a post on X.
Google, GSA agree to major governmentwide software discount

1 month ago | nextgov.com | Frank Konkel

LAS VEGAS — Google is offering the entire federal government — and each federal agency — a 71% discount off current pricing on its Workspace software suite through Sept. 30 in an agreement reached with the General Services Administration effective April 10.
With RIFs imminent, the Small Business Administration reoffers its Deferred Resignation Program

1 month ago | govexec.com | Frank Konkel

Small Business Administration employees received an email early Saturday morning from the agency’s chief human capital office offering them a second opportunity to accept the deferred-resignation deal first offered by the Office of Personnel Management to all federal employees from Jan. 28 to Feb. 12.
GSA reopens its Deferred Resignation Program and finalizes location consolidation

1 month ago | govexec.com | Frank Konkel

The General Services Administration is again offering its remaining employees deferred-resignation deals following a series of cuts in personnel, restructuring of priorities and a reduction in the agency’s physical footprint. GSA employees will have through April 18 to opt into the program.
GSA names new deputy administrator

1 month ago | govexec.com | Frank Konkel

A week of major changes within the General Services Administration concluded late Friday afternoon with the naming of Michael Lynch to serve as deputy administrator of the agency. Lynch, formerly the Chief Executive Officer at UK-based tech firm Zedsen, had been serving as a senior advisor within GSA under Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian for the first two months of President Trump’s second administration.
GSA issues major changes to Multiple Awards Schedule program

1 month ago | washingtontechnology.com | Frank Konkel

The General Services Administration on Monday notified contractors of major changes to its Multiple Awards Schedule program, a commercial acquisition program responsible for sales of $51.5 billion last year. According to an email sent Monday by Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum, the changes were introduced through an initiative to “rightsize” the program.