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Disaster And Emergency Part 6: Lessons for the Procurement Profession
Jul 25, 2018
Finalising his series on Procurement issues arising from last year’s hurricane season, as covered at the Caribbean Development Bank special conference, procurement coach and commentator Craig Brewin discusses the role of procurement and the lessons we can learn from those experiences. The rest...
Word Choice Made Simple: The Ultimate Guide To Government Contracting Keywords
Jul 25, 2018
The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Best Keywords for your Government Contracting Business
Competing for government contracts is such a challenge. Vendors complain they can only compete for the solicitations they know about, but what of all the opportunities that never come across their radar?...
FY19 NDAA Contains Acquisition Reforms, Bid Protest Study
Jul 25, 2018
Image By Ivan Cholakov / Shutterstock.comRecent article on GovExec: Acquisition Reforms Survive in Defense Authorization BillThe article notes that, “[c]ontractors are also likely to welcome the bill’s authorized increase of $600 million for research and development, with an emphasis on...
Disaster and Emergency Part 5: Making It Real
Jul 23, 2018
Craig Brewin continues his series on Procurement issues arising from last year’s hurricane season, as covered at the CDB special conference. The other parts in the series can be found here, here, here and here.
Following 2017’s procession of hurricanes the Caribbean Islands have been putting...
Recording and Recap: Smarter Procurement in the Public Sector
Jul 20, 2018
The public sector is undergoing massive changes with greater fiscal spending, tax changes, constrained budgets and much more scrutiny and regulation. Public procurement and finance officials are keen to implement policies and programs to better manage public spending and automate processes,...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Jul 20, 2018
Use of CSO acquisition procedures is ramping up quickly across federal agencies, a recent survey finds acquisition professionals don’t find innovation important to successful procurement, and 1,500 public organizations have signed new contracts to buy directly from Amazon. This is Public Spend...
Recording and Recap: Smarter Procurement in the Public Sector
Jul 20, 2018
The public sector is undergoing massive changes with greater fiscal spending, tax changes, constrained budgets and much more scrutiny and regulation. Public procurement and finance officials are keen to implement policies and programs to better manage public spending and automate processes,...
The Cascading Impact of Untimely Debriefing Requests on GAO Protests
Jul 19, 2018
A recent GAO decision in Exceptional Software Strategiesis an instructive reminder of the applicable rule concerning the timeliness of a contractor’s debriefing request and illustrates the cascading impact such request has on protest timeliness. [1] As many of us know, a debriefing can be a...
GAO: Agency Closing Time is 4:30 p.m., not 5:00 p.m.
Jul 19, 2018
Unless an agency designates different business hours, the FAR says that a government agency is deemed to close at 4:30 p.m. local time–not 5:00 p.m., as it would be easy to assume.
In a recent case, the 4:30 p.m. closing time cost an unsuccessful offeror a chance at a GAO protest because the...
Building Industry Must Not Go For Cheapest
Jul 18, 2018
That ‘value’ should mean more than the objective of achieving lowest cost is an attitude that is rippling through the construction industry as much as in any other. A UK Construction Leadership Council member and global director at Rider Levett Bucknall, Ann Bentley, explained that the industry...
European Single Procurement Document – An Outline for Suppliers
Jul 18, 2018
The European Single Procurement Document (eESPD) came into mandatory use in April 2018, it has not been adopted as widely as it should to streamline the process of bidding for government contracts. So Supply Chain Digital has run a commentary outlining what suppliers need to know and understand...
Foreign Aid Contracts Awarded to Firm Accused of Bribery
Jul 18, 2018
The Australian government awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid contracts to a company that was found to have been systematically bribing high-level Vietnamese officials – writes The Guardian. ‘In total, the company received 83 contracts worth $489m from Australia’s aid...
