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Embracing the Promise of the Cloud
May 4, 2017
Route Fifty has published a new special report, “Embracing the Promise of the Cloud,” looking at government case studies of how organizations have used cloud innovations to solve myriad problems. The free paper looks at how cloud solutions have changed transit in New York City, on the roadways...
DoD Changing Acquisition Office to Foster Risk-Taking
May 4, 2017
At a Senate hearing on defense innovation, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work told lawmakers the Department of Defense (DoD) will soon present its plan and timeline for dividing the acquisition, technology and logistics office into two separate offices, as mandated by the 2017 National Defense...
Useful Tips And Perspectives For Conducting Market Analysis
May 4, 2017
This article presents helpful tips and perspectives on conducting market analyses. Add these tips to your tool box for conducting market analyses – specific tips covered include: supplier market analysis, demand analysis, supplier interviews, and spend category risk level.
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Louisiana Court Overturns $750,000 Whistleblower Award
May 4, 2017
The Louisiana 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the state’s Department of Natural Resources, overturning a lower court’s award of $750,000 in a whistleblower case. Dan Collins, a land research consultant who had been working as a contractor for the state, had reported concerns...
GSA Meets with IT Industry Reps
May 4, 2017
A blog post by the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Government-wide IT Category Manager Mary Davie highlights some findings from a recent meeting GSA held with more than 50 IT industry representatives. Davie said industry told her government acquisition and program personnel need to be...
Colorado Pre-Qualifies Vendors to Speed Process
May 4, 2017
Colorado has moved to a system of “mini-bids” for its IT procurement, pre-qualifying a set of vendors to allow for quicker response and implementation times. “It was our first shot at doing it and I think as we’ve been in this for two years now, we’ve seen some improvements, so we’re...
Army’s Rapid Capabilities Office Moving Rapidly
May 4, 2017
The Army created its Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) eight months ago, and it’s fielding its first technologies this year, said RCO director Douglas Wiltsie at a May 3 conference. The RCO was established to develop technologies to deploy quickly to Army units. “Our focus is on ground maneuver...
USDS Training Agencies in Agile Procurement
May 4, 2017
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said the government has “taken some steps back” in terms of its IT acquisition and management, and FCW reports the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) is now working with agencies to combat that. The report states that USDS is “working directly with...
10 Rules for Successful Requirements Gathering
May 4, 2017
This article focuses on the actual gathering of requirements as part of requirements development and writing. While not written with a procurement context specifically in mind, it does provide helpful tips on gathering requirements. In addition to the “10 rules for gathering requirements”, the...
Writing an RFP that Works – A Checklist that Takes You Beyond the Template
May 3, 2017
Sourcing Magazine presents a checklist of useful tips that help you create and implement an effective RFP. This checklist is less about what the template looks like, but rather about, as Sourcing Magazine describes:
In this article we review how an RFP should facilitate the competitive...
Using a Reverse Auction in the Public Sector ? – Here’s a Helpful Checklist from Coupa Software
May 3, 2017
Coupa presents their perspectives on running a reverse auction to achieve great results. Use this as a helpful checklist to make sure you have your bases covered. As you may already know and as Coupa points out:
“A reverse auction is like a standard auction (also called a forward auction)...
GSA, DHS Contracts Stalled by Protests
May 3, 2017
Jason Miller reports that two high-profile contracts are currently stalled by protests. Windstream is the latest company to file a protest of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) telecommunications contract. And the Department of...
