Wisconsin May Opt Out of FirstNet
May 15, 2017
Wisconsin may become the sixth state in the country to opt out of the FirstNet national public-safety broadband network, as it plans to issue a request for proposals (RFP) for a statewide radio access network. Governor Scott Walker would still have to decide to opt out of FirstNet. Wisconsin will...
How the Navy Reduced Its IT Budget by 17%
May 15, 2017
The Air Force has been able to reduce its information technology (IT) budget of $3.9 billion by about 17% ($565 million) in real or potential savings. According to the article, the Air Force has been able to bring down costs by organizing and getting greater transparency into its data. Butch...
President Trump Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order
May 15, 2017
President Donald Trump issued an executive order “on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure.” The order had been anticipated for some time, but the president reportedly wanted to wait until the White House’s American Technology Council, as well as the...
Sourcing Optimisation – Will Coupa / Trade Extensions Tie-up Bring This Tech Into Government?
May 14, 2017
With the news that Coupa, a leading procurement software firm, is buying Trade Extensions, probably the number one “sourcing optimisation” firm in the world, we thought we would go back to an article we wrote in 2014 about whether optimisation could be used in the public sector. The answer is...
New Public Procurement Rules Enter Into Force In Belgium
May 14, 2017
The Royal Decree of 18 April 2017 on the award of public procurement in classic sectors was published in the Belgian Official Gazette of 9 May 2017. The decree implements in particular the Law of 17 June 2016 on public procurement. It includes: the introduction of the European Single Procurement...
Newswire Weekly – European Public Procurement Update
May 14, 2017
This is our weekly European public procurement news roundup. We will be bringing you recent public sector stories and information from around Europe’s news portals, reporting on how more than a trillion Euros of taxpayer money is being spent. This will become part of a future initiative to...
Lithuanian And Latvian Construction Firms In Illegal Agreement To Win Public Tenders
May 14, 2017
The Baltic Course reports that officers from the Klaipeda department of the Lithuanian Special Investigation Service raided a Lithuanian construction firm as part of an international pre-trial investigation into suspected public procurement fraud. It was investigating the case in collaboration with...
Newswire Weekly – European Public Procurement Update
May 14, 2017
This is our weekly European public procurement news roundup. We will be bringing you recent public sector stories and information from around Europe’s news portals, reporting on how more than a trillion Euros of taxpayer money is being spent. This will become part of a future initiative to...
Bulgarian Ex Foreign Minister Charged With Breach Of Public Procurement Rules
May 14, 2017
Bulgarian anti-corruption unit has charged former Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov with mismanagement that led to state losses of about 500 million levs (US$278 million) related to signing contracts in breach of public procurement rules. It is alledged he did not call a public procurement for air...
Acting CIO: Updating Legacy Systems About Better Data
May 11, 2017
Acting Federal Chief Information Officer Margie Graves said modernizing the government’s legacy systems will take a number of initiatives, including the Modernizing Government Technology Act, which seeks to help agencies spend savings on upgrades. Graves said the government will need to get a...
SBA Announced Competition to Provide Federal Procurement Training to Veteran-Owned Businesses
May 11, 2017
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced a competition to provide “Veteran Federal Procurement Entrepreneurship Training.” According to a press release, the competition “provides funding for U.S.-based organizations to expand existing federal procurement entrepreneurship training...
What Does a Tech Buying Team Need?
May 11, 2017
American City & County looks at the different challenges and skillsets that go into buying IT. The article features top public procurement and IT experts around the country discussing best practices, assembling teams and more. It also addresses a number of challenges faced by the public sector,...
Perspectives and Insights
I have been interested in the question of getting successful commercial companies, especially tech companies, to sell to the government from the time I was …
The Contractor Accountability and Transparency Act of 2017 (S. 651), introduced by Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., is yet another example of a …
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
It’s no surprise President Trump has been systematically dismantling President Obama’s executive orders, since taking office. Obama himself knew it was a possibility: Frustrated by …
Past performance is an important step in being successful as a federal government contractor. Once firms get into the mid-tier range, they normally have amassed …
A few months back, we published several articles about the very interesting – and somewhat shocking – court case around the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning …