NHS Wales to join the drive for adoption of GS1 standards
Jan 15, 2021
GS1 UK is a community of more than 42,000 members working in areas such as retail, foodservice and healthcare. It is one of 115 independent, not-for-profit GS1 organisations operating across 150 countries worldwide. It helps everyone involved in making, moving and trading goods to automate and...
Roadmap lays out public sector AI priorities
Jan 15, 2021
The AI Council, an independent expert committee set up by the UK Government, says the public sector should be a priority area for AI innovation, which could be harnessed to improve services and policy making. In its new AI Roadmap report, it urges the UK Government to give civil servants a central...
How to Bid on Government Contracts: Reviewing Government Solicitations
Jan 13, 2021
Unless you have a small army of business development professionals on your payroll, you can’t pursue all the government solicitations that match your capabilities. You need to make smart decisions about where to invest your limited resources to give your company the best chance to succeed without...
Why the public sector should use frameworks to comply with IR35
Jan 11, 2021
This guest post comes from Romy Hughes, director at Brightman.
Some aspects of the public sector, particularly those running IT transformation projects which rely so heavily on the flexibility of contractors, have been frustrated by the perceived block on this flexibility by IR35. But they...
Top 7 Virtual Public Spend Forum Events of 2020
Jan 5, 2021
The spread of the novel coronavirus in 2020 has proved to be a complex and costly issue for many areas of the public sector. Despite the challenges of 2020, Public Spend Forum continued to provide quality learning content in the public procurement space. Make sure that you didn’t miss any of the...
What is Lab-to-Market? Connecting Communities to the U.S. Federal Innovation Ecosystem
Nov 17, 2020
Learn about US government efforts to advance entrepreneurship and improve how Federally-funded research becomes market solutions.
Speakers:
Brittany Sickler, Senior Innovation Policy Advisor
Office of Innovation and Technology, US Small Business Administration
Katherine Tyner, White House...
Eat Your PEAs (Permissible Exercises of Authority): Taking Advantage of FAR Flexibilities to Drive Innovation in Federal Contracting
Sep 24, 2020
With a changing acquisition environment, it is more important than ever for contracting professionals to drive new and innovative solutions. However, sometimes it can feel like our hands are tied by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements. There’s a common saying in federal...
Recording: How to Complete Your Market Research Report in Minutes
Apr 2, 2020
Every activity a contracting professional does impacts the outcome they achieve, and some are more important than others. If you mail in the price estimate, you can make up for it during the evaluation. But if you skimp on market research, you put your acquisition in serious jeopardy of failing to...
Recording: An Introduction to Winning in Government Contracts
Feb 19, 2020
Webinar Covered by GovShop as Part of Elianceship with Eliances
Eliances provides a unique outlet for some of the most influential and intellectual individuals throughout the DMV area to foster business relationships. Eliances is a destination “Where Entrepreneurs Align™” and the community...
Recording: An Introduction to Acquisition Innovation Essentials
Feb 13, 2020
Presented in Partnership with Bunker Labs
Bunker Labs is a national network of veteran and milspouse entrepreneurs dedicated to helping the military-connected community start their own business. We are committed to seeing that every entrepreneur in the military-connected community has the network,...
Recording: How to Find Emerging Tech Suppliers
Feb 6, 2020
As new technologies like artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual reality, and unmanned aerial vehicles disrupt every industry more quickly than ever before, forward-thinking government leaders know that it’s important for them to stay ahead of the curve, too.
But with limited resources, how...
Creating a Government Capability Statement for your Contracting Business
Dec 19, 2020
How to Create a Clear, Concise & Dynamic Capability Statement for your Government Contracting Business
A good capability statement is equal parts marketing document and company biography. It’s not unlike a dating profile; you want to give the contracting professional key information they’ll use...
Policies and Regulations
It’s no surprise President Trump has been systematically dismantling President Obama’s executive orders, since taking office. Obama himself knew it was a possibility: Frustrated by …
Past performance is an important step in being successful as a federal government contractor. Once firms get into the mid-tier range, they normally have amassed …
A few months back, we published several articles about the very interesting – and somewhat shocking – court case around the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning …
Perspectives and Insights
I have been interested in the question of getting successful commercial companies, especially tech companies, to sell to the government from the time I was …
The Contractor Accountability and Transparency Act of 2017 (S. 651), introduced by Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., is yet another example of a …
Think you know all about public sector owned professional buying organisations (PBOs) and what they do? Here are ten interesting facts that might just surprise …