Startup in Residence Program to Expand to Nation’s Capital
Oct 5, 2017
Washington, D.C. will be the lead city in the East Coast expansion of the Startup in Residence (STiR) program, the San Francisco-born program that fosters collaboration between startups and government agencies. The Office of the Chief Technology Officer, in collaboration with several other offices,...
New e-Book to Determine the Maturity of Your Procurement Process
Oct 5, 2017
eRequester, an eProcurement and spend management software system, announced today that it is publishing a guide to help organisations determine the maturity level of their procurement programmes. The e-book, Procurement Process Maturity: An Actionable Guide to Advancing Your Purchasing and...
IRS Awards $7.25 Million Contract to Equifax for Data Services
Oct 4, 2017
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) awarded Equifax a $7.25 million no-bid contract, even as the company continues facing fallout from its massive security breach. According to the award, the credit agency will verify taxpayer identities and help prevent fraud at the IRS. Lawmakers on both sides of...
7 Steps to Agile Development
Oct 4, 2017
A report released at the annual NASCIO conference offers practical tips on realizing the benefits of agile development from surveys and interviews of state government leaders from across the country, both inside and outside of IT. Fueled by the survey, seven key factors emerged from the report, all...
SBA Proposes Rules For SDVOSB/VOSB CVE Protests & Appeals
Oct 4, 2017
The SBA has proposed rules to enable contractors to file protests with the SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals challenging the SDVOSB or VOSB status of a company included in the VA’s CVE VetBiz database. The same set of proposed rules would allow a contractor to appeal to OHA if the VA denies the...
IG Report: SEC Possibly Wasted Data Center Migration Funding
Oct 4, 2017
An Inspector General (IG) audit of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) handling of its 2012-2013 data center relocations found the agency’s failure to follow outlined steps in the plan resulted in possibly wasted funding. In addition, the IG concluded this failure also resulted in...
OPM Appoints New CIO As It Begins Modernization Initiative
Oct 3, 2017
David Garcia, former CIO for the state of Maryland, has joined the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to serve in the same role. His appointment comes as OPM is gathering information on a new initiative to modernize the federal government’s electronic personnel file. OPM wants to use the...
AI in the Public Sector: 26 Ways AI Could Help Government Do Its Job
Oct 3, 2017
Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t new; computer scientists have been discussing and building it for decades. However, the availability of cheap computing, advances in algorithmic coding, and an abundance of newly available data has changed, making it easier to apply AI to everyday purposes....
14 Firms Land Spots on $998 Million Air Force IDIQ
Oct 2, 2017
The U.S. Air Force has awarded 14 companies a spot on a potential $998 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to build weapon systems for the U.S. Air Force. Contractors will research, develop, test, and evaluate weapon systems under the shared multiple-award contract. The Air...
Can the WannaCry Response Be a Model for the Future?
Oct 2, 2017
A top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cyber official said that government and private-sector information sharing worked during the WannaCry ransomware outbreak and wants to see similar collaboration in the future. “We were getting information from an open source perspective and from...
FedRAMP Rolls Out ‘Tailored’ Baseline for Low-Risk Cloud Offerings
Oct 2, 2017
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) launched a ‘tailored’ baseline designed to accelerate the process for authorizing low-impact SaaS platforms for government use. The FedRAMP Tailored baseline covers low-risk systems and is meant to give authorizing officials a...
SmallGovCon Week In Review: September 25-29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017
It’s a sad day here at Koprince Law. Molly Schemm, who has been my fantastic legal executive assistant since before the firm’s doors even opened, is leaving to pursue new adventures in Alabama. All of us here at the firm will miss Molly dearly–and we won’t be the only ones. Molly’s...
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Perspectives and Insights
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One major trend over the past twenty years in public procurement has been the greater centralization of procurement activity. Conceptually and practically, collaborative procurement is …
Think you know all about public sector owned professional buying organisations (PBOs) and what they do? Here are ten interesting facts that might just surprise …
Policies and Regulations
A few months back, we published several articles about the very interesting – and somewhat shocking – court case around the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning …
The Procurement of Innovation Platform aims to make public procurement of innovation a widespread reality in Europe. The Platform has been developed to help public …
Why Evaluation in Public Procurement is Important If the phrase “bid evaluation” makes you cringe, don’t worry: you’re not alone. If …