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Public Spend Forum Newswire | 12/30/2016
Jan 3, 2017
NDAA Removes DoD Subcontracting Language
Forbes notes that Congress removed a controversial provision of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have allowed the Department of Defense (DoD) to count its subcontracts on big weapons programs toward its small business prime...
Favourite Articles of 2016: Trade-offs in Public Procurement
Jan 3, 2017
Politicians, and indeed many senior executives, hate to admit that life lacks certainty and is absolutely full of trade-offs. Perhaps it is a general human trait; we like certainty, to feel in control. We like to think we can address any problem and come up with a solution that closes off that...
Why Amazon’s “Up in the Air” Idea is Important for All of Us
Jan 1, 2017
OK, while celebrating the New Year, bingeing on college football, and/or simply keeping-up with the celebrity “death watch,” you might have missed one of the more intriguing stories to come down the pipe in quite some time.
There’s a history to the lifecycle of ideas that were once thought...
June 2016 Meeting of Public and Social Sector Best Practices Exchange
Oct 20, 2016
If the public sector is going to improve the way it buys goods and services, then public organizations need to improve the way they’re seen by their supply base, according to leaders who attended the June Public Spend Forum Public and Social Sector Best Practices Exchange meeting....
Public Procurement Best Practices Exchange Hits London and the United Kingdom
Sep 21, 2016
Last week, we held the kick-off meeting for the Public Spend Forum Best Practices Exchange in the UK. The Exchange has been a feature of the Public Spend Forum program in the USA for a year or more now, one of the elements of the PSF initiative launched by Raj Sharma and his team. Nancy Clinton and...
Other Transaction Authority (Advanced) Workshop
Aug 18, 2016
Do you want to develop applicable expertise in Other Transaction Authority (OTA)?
This hands-on workshop takes you through the entire process of awarding and competing for OTAs, from planning through award and administration.
This is NOT a day off. You will NOT sit back and sip coffee as slide...
In Canada, Thousands of Government Workers are Saying, “Hey, Hey, Where’s My Pay?”
Dec 30, 2016
As a professor, most times you are teaching, you can more or less enthusiastically talk about theories in your field that just make sense – theories that are built on years, decades, and maybe even centuries of solid research findings. Yet, there are times when you just have to suck it up and...
Reverse Auctions: Guidelines for Federal Contractors
Dec 23, 2016
Acquisition professionals and contract officers are besieged by a variety of different sourcing solutions designed to help them reduce their purchased cost of materials and services. For example, the FedBid reverse auction tool was widely recommended as a competitive tool available to contract...
Public Procurement News Round-up | 12/22/2016
Dec 23, 2016
The Problems with PSCs
Aram Mazmanian of Censeo Consulting Group writes about the difficulties in tracking exactly what the federal government buys, particularly because of the somewhat inexact nature of Product Services Codes (PSCs). Mazmanian notes that PSCs are often out of date, don’t...
Public Procurement Newswire | 12/22/2016
Dec 23, 2016
The Problems with PSCs
Aram Mazmanian of Censeo Consulting Group writes about the difficulties in tracking exactly what the federal government buys, particularly because of the somewhat inexact nature of Product Services Codes (PSCs). Mazmanian notes that PSCs are often out of date, don’t...
Public Procurement Newswire | 12/21/2016
Dec 22, 2016
New Military Plane Goes from Design to Test Flight within a Year
Writing at Defense One, Marcus Weisgerber notes that a new airplane designed and built by Boeing and Saab went from the design stage to in the air within a year, “light speed for the defense industry.” “We don’t do that very...
Public Procurement News Round-up | 12/21/2016
Dec 22, 2016
New Military Plane Goes from Design to Test Flight within a Year
Writing at Defense One, Marcus Weisgerber notes that a new airplane designed and built by Boeing and Saab went from the design stage to in the air within a year, “light speed for the defense industry.” “We don’t do that very...
