Federal procurement is getting a major makeover. Big changes have occurred, and more are on the horizon. Companies that sell into the federal marketplace definitely need to carefully monitor what is happening. A couple of months ago, the General Services Administration (GSA) unveiled a sweeping initiative called the OneGov Strategy. Since then, several new enterprise […]
Omaha has released its draft 2026 Capital Improvement Program (CIP), marking Mayor John Ewing Jr.’s first comprehensive infrastructure spending plan since taking office. The $815.8 million budget represents a nearly 8% increase from 2025 and commits over $3.4 billion through 2031 for more than 100 projects spanning transportation, environmental infrastructure and public facilities. The six-year […]
Officials from the city of Burbank, California, has selected a firm to manage its $147 million civic center and library overhaul, a downtown transformation project more than 20 years in the making. The company will guide development efforts for the downtown campus transformation, including an upcoming Request for Proposals to source a design and engineering […]
The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced revisions to the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (GOMESA), which provides funding for several coastal states to improve safety, ecology and infrastructure along coastlines. In an announcement earlier this month, the DOI raised the annual revenue-sharing cap from $500 million to $650 million in […]
If you blinked, took a short summer vacation or shifted your focus to another task, you may have missed the announcement that approximately $2 billion in federal funding was just made available. Here’s hoping you didn’t miss the initial announcement because the application timeline is so short it is shocking! Between July 28 and Aug. […]
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) announced a $150 million plan to address the shortage of commercial-truck parking in Ohio by adding 1,400 new commercial truck parking spaces across the state. With the plan, the state will create or expand long-term truck parking lots at 33 sites in 19 counties, […]
The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced last week $102.9 million in funding for wetland conservation projects throughout the nation. The funding comes from the North American Wetlands Conservation Act and was approved by the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission to help conserve or restore 548,242 acres of critical wetland habitat. The announcement provides the U.S. […]