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How to improve your agency’s FITARA score? Start with software licensing and MEGABYTE compliance.
Dec 12, 2017
This is the first in a series of posts to address how agencies can improve their efficiency and effectiveness in regards to their FITARA Scorecard. This first post focuses on MEGABYTE compliance.
In 2014, Congress passed the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act – commonly referred to as FITARA –...
Government and e-Procurement: A Look at the Public Procurement Technology Symposium Case Studies
Dec 11, 2017
Governments across the world are increasingly leveraging procurement technologies. At Public Spend Forum’s inaugural Public Procurement Technology Symposium, we had four great examples of organizations implementing solutions to improve their processes.
Commonwealth of Virginia: Shane Caudill,...
Infographic: Benefits of Business Intelligence Solutions
Dec 7, 2017
Governments and public-facing organizations around the world generate and capture enormous amounts of data. Increasingly, they are looking to technology as the way to transform every process, from connecting data and generating reports to visualizing information and forecasting future trends....
Buying Procurement Technology? Listen to this CPO’s Advice
Dec 6, 2017
Last week we re-launched our podcasting channel with a new series called Public Procurement Leaders. In each episode, Chairman and CEO of Public Spend Forum Raj Sharma sits down with leaders from the public and private sector to get their perspectives and insights.Given our recent work around...
‘Reinventing Government,’ 25 Years Later
Dec 6, 2017
In 1993, the government began shifting its focus to performance, but the question remains: Has the procurement system improved?
We are coming up next year on the 25th anniversary of the country’s first and perhaps only governmentwide management reform program organized around a coherent theme:...
Unbalanced Government Spending for IoT
Dec 5, 2017
Unfortunately for smaller innovative vendors and the civilian sector of the federal government, much of the IoT spending is consolidated within the Department of Defense and among a few large vendors. FCW examines how civilian agencies can increase their participation in this innovation wave and...
Introducing The Public Procurement Leader Podcast
Dec 1, 2017
At Public Spend Forum, we believe our community is our biggest asset. People are the engines of change and progress within the public sector and inside the suppliers that support them. That’s why we’ve decided to launch The Public Procurement Leader, a new podcast hosted by our Chairman and CEO...
Cyber DFARS Compliance and Agency Evaluations (NIST SP 800-171)
Nov 28, 2017
December 31, 2017 marks the deadline for compliance with DFARS 252.204-7012, Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting (“Cyber DFARS”).[1] The Cyber DFARS principally requires defense contractors to provide “adequate security” on all “covered contractor...
Agencies Should Join the Blockchain Conversation
Nov 27, 2017
Tim Gilday, a principal of technology acceleration at CSRA Inc., makes the case why agencies should figure out where this new security technology could work for them. “Delivering services to citizens without the security issues that currently plague most digital interactions will be a significant...
AWS Launches Secret Region for Government
Nov 22, 2017
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently unveiled their AWS Secret Region cloud, available to the U.S. intelligence community. Federal agencies will now have the option of moving classified data to the cloud. “The U.S. intelligence community can now execute their missions with a common set of tools, a...
NDAA’s Protest Pilot Could Mean Changes for IT Contracting
Nov 20, 2017
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes a Department of Defense (DOD) pilot that would require all contractors with $250 million in revenue in the previous year to pay for the cost of a failed contract protest. Currently restricted to DOD acquisition programs, the pilot could have a...
Federal Procurement Officer Charged in $2.3 Million Fraud Scheme
Nov 20, 2017
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...
