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It’s difficult to keep track of all of the news published that impacts the public sector market every day. That’s why the Public Spend Forum Newswire captures and synthesizes the new policies, regulations, thought leadership and legislation that is changing and influencing your job. Here are a...

From Governing Magazine – By Raj Sharma We talk a lot about “procurement reform.” Instead, we should be looking at government purchasing through the lens of economics and how markets really work. There is plenty of consensus that government procurement needs a lot of fixing. But do we...

It’s difficult to keep track of all of the news published that impacts the public sector market every day. That’s why the Public Spend Forum Newswire captures and synthesizes the new policies, regulations, thought leadership and legislation that is changing and influencing your job. Here are a...

What’s Next for Fair Pay & Safe Workplaces? The Washington Post looks at the status of the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Rule, which was recently halted by a federal judge in Texas, who upheld a request for a temporary injunction. The article notes that while the rule’s implementation is...

It’s difficult to keep track of all of the news published that impacts the public sector market every day. That’s why the Public Spend Forum Newswire captures and synthesizes the new policies, regulations, thought leadership and legislation that is changing and influencing your job. Here are a...

It’s difficult to keep track of all of the news published that impacts the public sector market every day. That’s why the Public Spend Forum Newswire captures and synthesizes the new policies, regulations, thought leadership and legislation that is changing and influencing your job. Here are a...

Business intelligence firm Onvia has released the results of its first annual survey of government procurement practitioners, polling more than 500 pros from city, count and state governments, as well as school districts across the US. For each insight gained through the survey, the report actually...

We are back with new episodes of the Public Impact Podcast, the only podcast telling stories of success and innovation in the public sector. These are stories that you won’t always read in the newspaper, but that need to shared and celebrated. Like our episode this week, about creating a 21st...

With so much happening at the local, state and federal levels, public procurement in the United States is always changing. Here are the latest headlines from the last (busy!) week of news: Federal Court Grants Injunction Halting Fair Pay Rule The Eastern District of Texas has issued a preliminary...

Federal Contracting Professionals Can Use These Flexible Arrangements To Maximize Procurement Outcomes We ran a story in our daily Public Spend Forum Newswire about the Army’s intent to establish a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to support its transition of legacy applications into the commercial...

You hear it time and again: If it weren’t for the regulations, we’d have loads of innovation in the public sector. Nowhere in government is there a more maligned document than the FAR, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, which has been blamed for any number of hurdles and failures in federal...

We listed our six challenges for public procurement in 2015 at the beginning of the month. Here they are again. Challenge no.1; Implementation of New Directives Challenge no.2; Austerity continues Challenge no.3; Social issues Challenge no. 4; Value and Innovation Challenge no.5; The Fight against...