Government Information Now Available to Citizens through Voice Activation
Apr 25, 2019
The UK Government Digital Service has been employing a small team of experts over the past six months to trial a scheme to make more information available to the public using voice-recognition technology. 12,000 pieces of information are now available via the use of Alexa or Google Home devices....
Better Infrastructure Procurement – Applications Invited for Pilot Projects
Apr 25, 2019
A £3 million fund is now available for pilot projects to improve approaches to procurement in infrastructure, housing and local authority-led construction. Industry training board, the CITB, is seeking applications and expressions of interest as part of the Improving Performance Through Better...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Apr 19, 2019
Judge lifts stay in JEDI protest, says award won’t come before July 19 and improving federal solicitations’ ‘scary low’ Section 508 accessibility compliance. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for April 19, 2019.
New Proposed Schedule Forbids DOD from Awarding JEDI...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Apr 12, 2019
AWS and Microsoft left to compete for $10B JEDI contract, CBP decided to end its $297 million contract with Accenture, and HHS will launch an IT workforce acquisition pilot with USDS. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for April 12, 2019.
Amazon, Microsoft Emerge as Final...
Transport Secretary Stands By No-Deal Ferry Procurement
Apr 11, 2019
Civil Service World writes that UK Transport Secretary Chris Grayling is insisting that the use of “emergency powers to procure additional no-deal Brexit ferry capacity was ‘justified’ despite the decision resulting in an agreement to pay £33m to rail operator Eurotunnel following a legal...
European Commission – Startups Make Recommendations on Innovation Procurement
Apr 11, 2019
At the Startup Europe Summit, Allied for Startups worked with founders and startup community leaders across Europe to draft 11 actionable recommendations on what the next European Commission, Parliament and Council can do to improve policy making for startups in 2019-2024. They call on the EC to...
Garden Bridge – Lessons Learnt and Full Report
Apr 11, 2019
All over the UK news this week is the concluding report from the Charity Commission which suggests lessons for charities, policy makers, and the regulator itself arising from the failed Garden Bridge project. “The report acknowledges that over £50m of public funds were spent by a charity without...
Have Your Say About the 2014 Public Procurement Directives
Apr 11, 2019
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the Council of European Municipalities are conducting a consultation on the 2014 Directives on Public Procurement. The Directives introduced a number of changes in the European legal framework for public procurement. They introduced new...
Open Market Consultation in Archiving and Digital Preservation Services Open
Apr 11, 2019
Four large research organisations from Switzerland, Germany and Spain (CERN, DESY, EMBL-EBI and PIC) are inviting interested suppliers to participate in the open market consultation in preparation of their upcoming pre-commercial procurement ARCHIVER. The procurement aims to introduce radical...
Better Access to French Public Procurement Law
Apr 11, 2019
April 1st, 2019 marked the day when the first French public procurement code entered into force. The Code aims at gathering the rules governing the award, performance and termination of public procurement agreements − mainly public procurement contracts and concession agreements. The Code...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Apr 5, 2019
GSA’s IT Schedule 70 opens SINs for Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services, FBI delays $5B Justice IT services recompete, and GSA’s innovation investment arm plans to award a single-vendor BPA for agile development services. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for April...
EAFIP Open for New Applications for PCP and PPI Assistance
Apr 4, 2019
The European Assistance for Innovation Procurement (EAFIP) initiative, which supports public procurers across Europe in developing and implementing innovation procurement, is open to receive applications from public procurers of all EU Member States to support the implementation of Pre-Commercial...
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