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Despite Pandemic, PPE Suppliers Can’t Find Buyers
Feb 17, 2021
Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for masks in the United States has skyrocketed, driven in part by new guidance from public health officials encouraging mask-wearing. Still, many American producers of the coveted N95 surgical masks have been hard-pressed to find buyers, as The New...
Breath Tests: An Emerging COVID-19 Rapid Testing Strategy
Feb 16, 2021
While the coronavirus has been forcing the nation into lockdown for almost a year, new innovations are constantly being made in the detection and treatment of the novel coronavirus. Advancements in the field of emerging medical technology have simplified the process of traveling and staying safe in...
Leveraging GovShop for Small Business Success in a New Administration
Feb 12, 2021
Planning for Success During A Biden Presidency
With each new presidential administration comes a raft of new priorities, new appointees, and new business opportunities for savvy government contractors that know how to find them. As America turns the page to our 46th President, political promises...
UK public procurement fragmentation: green paper and frameworks
Feb 12, 2021
The UK government’s green paper Transforming public procurement “fails to live up to its title,” explains CIPS. Colin Cram, a consultant who was a founding member of the government’s Central Unit on Purchasing – a forerunner of the Efficiency and Reform Group — said the proposals...
Free training to help SMEs secure more future contracts
Feb 12, 2021
UK big transport firms, HS2, Highways England, Network Rail and Transport for London, have joined forces in encouraging SMEs to register for free training courses designed to improve their prospects of meeting equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) supply chain requirements and help them secure...
Small Dollars, Big Deal: Why You Must Leverage the Simplified Acquisition Threshold
Feb 11, 2021
Many government contractors approach the market with dreams of multi-million dollar contracts, and in the process miss out on valuable opportunities that exist below the government’s simplified acquisition threshold.
It is easy to fantasize about the one big contract that can change your life,...
While progress toward cloud, UK public sector still mostly in hybrid environment
Feb 5, 2021
Hybrid cloud data services and data management company NetApp has revealed in a recent study that a mix of cloud and local infrastructure will continue on being used in the coming years by the UK’s public sector, according to DevOpps Online. And according to a freedom of information (FOI)...
Transparency International releases latest Corruption Perceptions Index
Feb 5, 2021
2020’s Corruption Perceptions Index is out. The index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople using a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean.
While most countries have...
Flying High With Technology Innovator Dave Harden, Creator of AFWERX
Feb 5, 2021
We’ve had some great guests on the Public Sector Heroes Podcast, but Dave Harden has the distinction of being a real American hero in addition to heroic work in the public sector.
Before he built AFWERX to promote an innovation culture within the US Air Force, before he adapted the “Shark...
Is GSA Taking Advantage of Industry with their Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence RFI?
Feb 3, 2021
We’ve got a pet peeve here at GovShop: when government contracting organizations transfer the effort of basic market research onto their industry counterparts through a popular (and at times very appropriate) tool called a request for information (RFI).
Apparently, we aren’t alone. Based on a...
A.I. Detects Market Manipulation: “Gamestonk”
Feb 2, 2021
Wall Street has entered the meme wars and it’s bringing A.I. to the party! In what is now being called the “Gamestonk” event, a group of Redditors decided to buy substantial amounts of stock in GameStop and other “meme” companies as a protest against hedge funds who were shorting the...
New EU competency framework increases professionalisation in digital, innovative and green public procurement
Jan 29, 2021
ProcurCompEU is a tool designed by the European Commission to support the professionalisation of public procurement. By defining 30 key competences, it provides a common reference for public procurement professionals in the European Union and beyond. It recognises and supports public procurement...
