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Federal agencies are cutting procurement time with PROPRICER, Amazon pitches facial recognition tech to ICE amid controversy, and a new report shows poor debriefings can lead to bid protests. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for November 2, 2018. Agencies, Contractors...

Public Spend Forum is proud to announce a partnership with the Shatter Fund, a fund exclusively focused on investing in high potential disruptive technology companies led by female entrepreneurs. This partnership furthers PSF’s mission to create Open Government Markets by lowering the barriers...

It has been almost twelve months since the Trump administration had awarded federal loans and contracts worth up to $1.3 billion to supply what was once considered an essential syringe to combat Covid-19. The fortunate firm receiving the majority of this funding, ApiJect Systems Corporation, has...

“Dustin, is anyone talking about how deeply connected schools re-opening and governments re-opening is? Because they need to be.” (Client last week). OK, let’s talk about it then. On March 13th, President Trump declared a national emergency, and guidelines were quickly issued to avoid social...

Sign up to be a part of the XR Women x GovShop collaboration. GovShop is a free match-making platform that brings together companies like yours and government buyers  in a single, connected marketplace. Government buyers from over 250 agencies across Federal, state and local agencies and using...

As part of its innovation efforts, a US Army team wanted to get deeper visibility into its IT Services spending and prioritize opportunities to engage more non-traditional and underserved companies Instead of traditional, manual research and analysis methods, it decided to utilize PSF’s AI-MI (AI...

Pour yourself a steamy cup-of-joe now, because it may not be long until the long days of wine connoisseurs and coffee experts will be replaced by artificial intelligence machines to determine the quality and grade of such highly-esteemed drinks.  A newly-innovated artificial intelligence platform...

In today’s rapidly evolving world, innovation and technological advancement are crucial for driving economic growth and societal progress. Recognizing the importance of fostering innovation in small businesses, the United States government has established the Small Business Innovation Research...

It’s the cold war you never knew about – one that actually dealt with cold and creamy treats everyone holds so dearly. This cold war was filled with secret codes, legal threats, and of course, betrayal. Wired News had the opportunity to hear from the couple who started it all – Jeremy...

Episode 27 of the Public Sector Heroes Podcast feat. Fitz Frames Founders Heidi Hertel and Gabriel Schlumberger Written by Sarah Doherty  Fitz Frames, a member of Public Spend Forum x Shatter’s Fund’s inaugural women-led tech accelerator, is revolutionizing the way we see and providing custom...

Four Principles That I have Applied to Build Relationships Across the World Someone came up to me a few months ago and asked, “How do you become friends with people so quickly?” I was really surprised by the question, because I had never thought about it. So I decided to better understand not...