Brian Friel

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Best-in-Class IDIQs: A deep dive

Brian Friel, co-founder of BD Squared, joins host Roger Waldron on this week’s Off the Shelf for a wide-ranging update on the leading governmentwide, Best-in-Class…

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Brian Friel: Contractors to face fewer opportunities and fiercer competition

Fiscal year 2016 will be the seventh straight year of a constrained federal contracting market. Contractors will face fewer opportunities and fiercer competition….

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Brian Friel: DoD, DHS go big on OASIS contract

OASIS is one big multiple award contract, and it continues to grow. The Defense Department leads the pack with the Air Force accounting for half of its…

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Brian Friel: $92 billion in RFPs still to come this fiscal year

Contractors have a busy rest of the summer. Requests for proposals now or about to be on the street will amount to $92 billion worth of future opportunities. That’s according to analysis by Bloomberg Government. More than half of that will come from the General Services Administration’s forthcoming Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions multiple award program. Brian Friel is a government contracts analyst at Bloomberg. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to preview these upcoming multiple award…

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