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Lack of Supervision and Reorganisation Pressures Lead to Waste of Public Money in Police Central Works Council
Sep 14, 2017
The Dutch National Police Central Works Council (CWC) has been accused of exorbitantly wasting taxpayer money through lack of supervision on budgets and expenses. A committee on behalf of the Dutch lower parliament suspects former police chief of not acting sufficiently enough to combat overruns on...
NSA Awards Classified $2.4 Billion Tech Contract With More to Come
Sep 14, 2017
CSRA won the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Groundbreaker recompete to modernize portions of the intelligence community’s IT infrastructure. The agency awarded the tech firm the first of three portions of its classified contract and is expected to make the final two recompete awards this...
Opportunity for Irish SMEs And Public Sector To Work Together on New Initiatives
Sep 14, 2017
The Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection has called for a competitive challenge to increase collaboration between Irish public sector bodies and SMEs in order to come up with unique and innovative solutions to public sector needs....
Public Sector Pay Cap Lifted for Police and Prison Officers – Unions Not Happy
Sep 14, 2017
Since 2013 public sector pay rises in England and Wales have been capped at 1% – below the rate of inflation. That has now been lifted, with greater ‘flexibility’ given, to Police and Prison Officers – actions for other parts of the public sector have yet to be decided. But Unions are angry...
UK Government Framework Raises Questions About Public Sector Spend Aggregation and Centralisation
Sep 12, 2017
The problems over the UK central government consulting services framework raise some wider questions about the whole strategy of aggregating spend and centralisation of public sector procurement.
The most important “lot” within the framework, for general business consulting, was due to be...
Release of Claims: Contractor Signatory Must Have Authority
Sep 12, 2017
What goes around, comes around.
The government sometimes refuses to pay a contractor for a modification when the government official requesting the modification lacks appropriate authority. But contractual authority isn’t a one-way street benefiting only the government. A recent decision by...
Fourth Suspension and Debarment Colloquium
Sep 11, 2017
Hosted by The World Bank, the Fourth Colloquium on Suspension and Debarment taking place on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, showcases recent developments in suspension and debarment systems worldwide, examining the various uses of suspension and debarment in the procurement and anti-corruption contexts....
4 Things You Market to the Government that Won’t Win a Contract
Sep 8, 2017
Momma always told me, “If someone else can claim it, it ain’t a competitive advantage.” Take that as Rule #1 in marketing to anybody, whether B2C, B2B, or B2G. OK, maybe it wasn’t my sainted mother that memorialized that piece of wisdom. It may have been a Vistage speaker I saw years ago...
SmallGovCon Week In Review: September 5-8, 2017
Sep 8, 2017
Football season is back, and the Chiefs certainly gave those in our neck of the woods something to cheer for last night. I wish I could say I felt sorry for our SmallGovCon Patriots fans, but those five Super Bowl Rings ought to take the sting out of an opening-week loss.
I’ll be watching...
Bottom-Line Price, Not Line-Item Price, Is Key for Price Reasonableness
Sep 8, 2017
When I went out for pizza with my family the other night, the only number that mattered to me when I got the check was the bottom-line price. It didn’t matter to me what the price for each pizza or each lemonade was, as long as the total price was within my budget.
For an agency evaluating a...
Digital Procurement Survey: How to Get Beyond the Buzzwords
Sep 8, 2017
“Buzzword: an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen.” From the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
For anyone interested in procurement, and in procurement technology, in particular, it is practically impossible to go a day without...
Cybersecurity Challenges Remain During Push for IT Modernization
Sep 8, 2017
According to a survey of 200 federal IT executives conducted by Unisys Corporation and research company Market Connections, 59 percent said modernization efforts have increased the cybersecurity challenges they face. The survey highlights the challenges facing IT professionals; however, despite...
