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Rolls-Royce, Not That Rolls-Royce, Agrees to Corrupt Practice Penalty
Jan 31, 2017
Last week the US Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs issued a press release detailing the extent of Rolls-Royce Plc’s decade-long series of bribes to government officials to gain government contracts abroad. The UK-based firm, best known for its manufacture of engines for the defence...
Public Spend Forum Newswire | 1/27/2017
Jan 30, 2017
Senior Contracting Officials Open Up
Former Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Steve Kelman writes about a meeting he had with 80 GS-15s—supervisors and leaders—to discuss the state of federal contracting. Kelman notes that while participants from defense said they thought their...
Public Procurement News Round-up | 1/27/2017
Jan 30, 2017
Senior Contracting Officials Open Up
Former Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Steve Kelman writes about a meeting he had with 80 GS-15s—supervisors and leaders—to discuss the state of federal contracting. Kelman notes that while participants from defense said they thought their...
Welcome to the Global Leaders Exchange for Public Procurement
Jan 30, 2017
We are excited to introduce you to our updated online portal and bi-weekly newsletter, as part of the Global Leaders Exchange for Public Procurement, brought to you as a partnership between Public Spend Forum and Michigan State University.
Through the online portal, you can now:
Connect with peers...
Trump Administration Freezes Contracting at the EPA. What’s Next?
Jan 27, 2017
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The major news in the federal contracting sphere this week—and it has been a busy news week—came when it was announced that President Donald Trump’s administration had frozen all contracting activity at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). That doesn’t...
Public Spend Forum Newswire | 1/26/2017
Jan 27, 2017
PSC Calls on EPA to Resume Contracting Activity
The Professional Services Council (PSC), a large trade association for federal contractors, has written to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Acting Administrator Catherine McCabe, seeking a rollback of the halt to all EPA contracting...
Public Procurement News Round-up | 1/26/2017
Jan 27, 2017
PSC Calls on EPA to Resume Contracting Activity
The Professional Services Council (PSC), a large trade association for federal contractors, has written to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Acting Administrator Catherine McCabe, seeking a rollback of the halt to all EPA contracting...
Social Audits in the Supply Chain – ‘A Diagnostic Tool that Doesn’t Fix Things’
Jan 27, 2017
We have been writing quite substantially lately about responsible procurement, corporate social responsibility, and human rights in the supply chain. Our posts on the Greenwich Symposium on Human Rights and Public Procurement covered issues such as the high-profile risks that occur in mass...
What contracting executives really think about government acquisition
Jan 27, 2017
While the rest of Washington was preparing for the inauguration, 80 GS-15 feds—generally supervisors and top-level executives—were headed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for an intensive four-week executive education program at the Harvard Kennedy School (no picnic, lots of reading and preparing)...
Innovation and Public Procurement – Competition Must Still Be The Norm
Jan 27, 2017
There’s an interesting article on the Out-Law website (from Pinsent Masons, the leading law firm), which relate to a UK parliamentary committee discussion about innovation in science and technology.
Jo Johnson, the UK minister for universities, science, research and innovation (and brother of...
European Public Procurement Newswire — 1/27/17
Jan 27, 2017
Some of the public procurement news we picked up this week from around the European portals:
Croatian MOD releases procurement plan for 2017 – increases budget
The Croatian Ministry of Defence has released its procurement plan for this year, and in it raises its budget by nearly HRK400m ($57m)....
October 2016 Meeting Summary And Notes
Jan 26, 2017
In this document, available to members of our Global Leaders Exchange, we provide a debrief of the October Exchange meeting, where leaders discussed not only what metrics are most vital to their organization, but how the public sector can rethink its approach to measurement to get at what drives...
