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A former Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) procurement officer received an 11-count indictment over the fraudulent appropriation of a federal contract. Carla Sena was assigned to manage the bidding process for a moving services contract. She allegedly created a fake moving company, prepared a bid...

Civil Service World this week reports on an interview it had with Prof Gary Sturgess, Australia and New Zealand School of Government chair of public service delivery at the University of New South Wales (who was doing a Public Service Transformation Academy (PSTA) workshop on contracting). They...

In 2007, the European Commission established the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism to assess progress against the commitments made by Romania in the areas of judicial reform and the fight against corruption. It reports regularly on progress made and this week released a press release outlining...

On the disaggregation of large IT contracts drive, the UK Government Commercial Function has published an advisory document, Government Shared Learning – Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments, which could be of use to other administrations we suspect. It offers advice to...

The U.S. Air Force created a new office to evaluate and oversee how it buys technology. Among the ideas being discussed is “colorless money.” As the office director, Maj. Gen. Sarah Zabel, explains, the military has certain funds to use for specifically defined things to include procurement,...

The European Commission invites your views on a draft Guidance on Public Procurement of Innovation. The Guidance on Public Procurement of Innovation supports the wider uptake of public procurement of innovation in the EU and the document will cover added value of public procurement of innovation;...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa wants acquisition officials in on the agile discussion. With agile development emerging as a key to efficient federal business, Correa sees the benefit. Acquisition officials can aid in creating a better strategy for the...

The recent Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard has been bad news for many agencies. Six of the 24 agencies evaluated dropped below their June 2017 grade and only three improved their scores. While agencies struggled with software licensing, a relatively recent...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has set up no-fly zones for drones in various parts of the country for assorted reasons. However, drones have successfully joined in searches and just last week in North Carolina, one located an elderly woman after just 25 minutes of searching. The hope is...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) selected Virginia-based information technology company, CSRA, to help its ongoing efforts to digitize veteran health records ahead of the development of its new electronic health records system. The agency awarded a $158 million task order to digitize more...

UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt announced this week that NHS hospitals throughout the country will be ranked in a ‘Procurement League Table’ according to how much they are spending on goods and services. With ongoing wide variation in the amount hospitals are charged, and pay, for everyday...

Various changes to the EU Trade Mark regulation have been taking place since March 2016, but some were established to start from October 2017. The changes that came into force last month from the European Union Intellectual Property Office are outlined on the Lexology website, namely these include...