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Louis Berger Wins Contract for Power Supply to Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Nov 27, 2017
The Louis Berger Group won a potential $860 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide temporary power supply in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Louis Berger deployed more than 300 personnel and independent contractors in October to help USACE, the Federal Emergency Management Agency,...
Panel Discussion Talks Blockchain for Government, Federal Contractors
Nov 25, 2017
While mostly known as the technology behind the digital money Bitcoin, blockchain has other uses that are gaining traction across government. Blockchain can help improve cybersecurity, increase transparency, and speed up contract award processing and proposal review times.
At a panel discussion...
Estonia in One of its Biggest Arms Procurements
Nov 24, 2017
The Estonian Defence Forces (EDF), Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) and Ministry of Justice have nine qualified tenderers for the procurement of new automatic firearms. Terms and conditions will be provided by the end of the year. Tenders will be submitted in the first quarter of 2018, then a...
Government Needs ‘Public Value Framework To Improve Efficiency’
Nov 24, 2017
A report was published on November 17 by HM Treasury; the Public Value Review calls for a sharper results culture in public services. It looks into how central government can ensure it is delivering maximum value for money in public services such as hospitals, schools and other essential services....
Netherlands Railways Tender Investigation – Fraud, Corruption, Forgery and Breach of Confidentiality
Nov 24, 2017
This week the former CEO of Netherlands Railways (NS) is facing charges of possible involvement in fraud during a tender for public transport in Limburg. In 2015 the NS was accused of deliberately putting a competitor, transport company Veolia, in a disadvantaged position so that they could win the...
Ireland – New Government Strategy to Require Use of BIM When Procuring Key Public Works
Nov 24, 2017
Ireland’s Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and Minister of State with special responsibility for Public Procurement, Open Government and eGovernment have set out the Government strategy for the increased use of digital technology in the delivery of key public works projects that are...
UK Government and New Ideas to Boost Spend With SMEs
Nov 22, 2017
Spend Matters UK/Europe and Public Spend Forum reported recently on the disappointing figures quietly released by the UK government that showed the proportion of central government spend with smaller firms (SMEs) declining in 2015/16. While this was because of the “indirect” spend declining...
AWS Launches Secret Region for Government
Nov 22, 2017
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently unveiled their AWS Secret Region cloud, available to the U.S. intelligence community. Federal agencies will now have the option of moving classified data to the cloud. “The U.S. intelligence community can now execute their missions with a common set of tools, a...
NDAA’s Protest Pilot Could Mean Changes for IT Contracting
Nov 20, 2017
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes a Department of Defense (DOD) pilot that would require all contractors with $250 million in revenue in the previous year to pay for the cost of a failed contract protest. Currently restricted to DOD acquisition programs, the pilot could have a...
Federal Procurement Officer Charged in $2.3 Million Fraud Scheme
Nov 20, 2017
A former Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) procurement officer received an 11-count indictment over the fraudulent appropriation of a federal contract. Carla Sena was assigned to manage the bidding process for a moving services contract. She allegedly created a fake moving company, prepared a bid...
Procurement’s Productivity Puzzle – (Almost) Solved
Nov 18, 2017
Productivity is a subject that definitely falls into the worthy but dull category. Unfortunately it’s pretty fundamental to all of us. Whether we run, work in or are customers of organisations, it matters. It’s not a question of the dry definition – productivity is a measure of the efficiency...
Why UK Public Sector Outsourcing Is Failing To Deliver
Nov 17, 2017
Civil Service World this week reports on an interview it had with Prof Gary Sturgess, Australia and New Zealand School of Government chair of public service delivery at the University of New South Wales (who was doing a Public Service Transformation Academy (PSTA) workshop on contracting). They...
