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Should Contractors Cover the Cost of Protests?

Aug 24, 2016
Recently, the Professional Services Council (PSC) raised the alarm about two provisions that were being bandied about to include in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the big defense spending bill that tows along dozens straggling amendments and legislative language in its...

White House Requires Agencies to Go Open Source

Aug 24, 2016
  If nothing else, before January 20 of next year rolls around, the Obama administration will have implemented huge changes to the way the government buys information technology, modernizing policy, approach and in the end, the tech that’s bought. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and...

The Regulatory Road Ahead for Federal Acquisition Policy

Aug 24, 2016
  The final year of President Barack Obama’s final term has turned out to be a busy one in terms of federal acquisition policy. Ever since the crash of Healthcare.gov, the president has made it part of his core mission to improve the way the government buys IT. And he has often employed...

Measuring the World: The World Bank’s Public Procurement Benchmarking

Aug 23, 2016
Every year the World Bank benchmarks the regulatory environments in 77 economies the world over, assessing their impact on the public procurement process. The benchmarking essentially cuts across two lines: The procurement lifecycle (how well the contract lifecycle from bid preparation to contract...

VIDEO: An Introduction to the Digital Services Playbook

Aug 23, 2016
Within 10 months of the failed October 2013 rollout of Healthcare.gov, the White House launched the United States Digital Service (USDS) to “work in collaboration with other government agencies to make websites more consumer friendly, to identify and fix problems, and to help upgrade the...

Podcast: 18F’s Dave Zvenyach on Innovation and $1 Procurements

Aug 19, 2016
We all know the problems and the challenges in government grab all of the headlines, but we also know there is an untold number of untold stories of people in the government doing great work to make the government work better and smarter for citizens. These are good stories to tell, and good...

Dan Ward on Innovation, Taking Risks and Doing More with Less

Jul 14, 2016
  On today’s episode of the Public Impact Podcast, Public Spend Forum Co-Founder and Chair Raj Sharma talks with retired Air Force Lt. Col. Dan Ward about his approach to innovation, building a culture of trust when it comes to taking risks, and how he changed things up at the Air Force by...

Jennifer Pahlka Talks Innovation, Agile, and California

Jun 23, 2016
For years California’s Child Welfare System—the electronic records system that helped keep track of cases for neglected, abused and vulnerable kids—was woefully out of date. And when California decided to go out to bid for a new one, the request for proposal was typically “monolithic,”...

18F’s Dave Zvenyach on Innovation and $1 Procurements

Jun 14, 2016
We all know the problems and the challenges in government grab all of the headlines, but we also know there is an untold number of untold stories of people in the government doing great work to make the government work better and smarter for citizens. These are good stories to tell, and good...