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Challenges and Prizes Toolkit: GSA’s Guide to Getting It Right
Dec 22, 2016
We’ve written a lot recently about the effectiveness of challenges and prizes in public procurement, particularly in bringing in potential suppliers who exist far outside the orbit of the standard marketplace. The U.S. Agency for International Development, for instance, has used challenges to...
Best Public Procurement Articles of 2016: The Arguments Against Collaboration
Dec 21, 2016
Over the Christmas and New Year period, we will be featuring a daily favourite article from each month of this year (2016), which should take us nicely up to January 8th when we assume everything kicks back into gear! We’ll start today with this from January 2016.
John Seddon is a guru of...
Public Procurement Newswire | 12/19/2016
Dec 21, 2016
GAO Protest Report Shows Watchdog Sustained Twice as Many Protests in 2016
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued its annual report on bid protest statistics, and the numbers show a jump from 68 sustained protests in 2015 to 139 in 2016. The number of protests filed rose by 6% over...
Public Procurement Newswire | 12/20/2016
Dec 21, 2016
New Federal Acquisition Circular Includes Rule on Late Payments to Subcontractors
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council has published a second Federal Acquisition Circular in two weeks, this one containing two final rules. The first provides guidance for contractors who must train...
Public Procurement News Round-up | 12/19/2016
Dec 21, 2016
GAO Protest Report Shows Watchdog Sustained Twice as Many Protests in 2016
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued its annual report on bid protest statistics, and the numbers show a jump from 68 sustained protests in 2015 to 139 in 2016. The number of protests filed rose by 6% over...
Public Procurement News Round-up | 12/20/2016
Dec 21, 2016
New Federal Acquisition Circular Includes Rule on Late Payments to Subcontractors
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council has published a second Federal Acquisition Circular in two weeks, this one containing two final rules. The first provides guidance for contractors who must train...
The UK’s Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency Switches from Outsourcing to Agile
Dec 21, 2016
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) focuses on improving road safety by setting and enforcing standards for driving and vehicles in the UK. It recently announced, during its technology transformation programme, how it is changing from using primarily outsourced contracts to in-sourced,...
Ebook: Market Insights For Purchasing IT Hardware
Dec 20, 2016
Understanding markets and supplier capabilities is critical to engaging a market, developing a purchasing strategy and meeting your organizational needs. Given how time intensive and time-consuming market intelligence can be, we have tried to make the job a little easier. Public Spend Forum teamed...
The Trump Transition: Improving Public Procurement and Acquisition
Dec 20, 2016
The quadrennial process of jockeying for jobs and policy priorities that occurs when a new administration is elected is underway.
The higher-visibility sweepstakes involve political jobs in the administration. Right now, attention is focused on cabinet positions, but once those are filled attention...
Public Procurement News Round-Up | 12/16/2016
Dec 19, 2016
FAR Circular Outlines State of Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council is out with another FAR Circular. This one collects the interim rule that requires contractors to allow all employees performing work on or connected to a contact to accrue and use sick...
Twelve Key Competencies for the Public Procurement Workforce – Quick Reference Guide
Dec 19, 2016
Developed in coordination with the Volcker Alliance, our draft model of the key competencies that are required for the public procurement workforce identifies 12 key competencies critical to every public procurement organization.
This quick reference guide lays out and describes all twelve....
Public Procurement Newswire | 12/16/2016
Dec 19, 2016
FAR Circular Outlines State of Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces
The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council is out with another FAR Circular. This one collects the interim rule that requires contractors to allow all employees performing work on or connected to a contact to accrue and use sick...
