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COVID-19: Potential Impact on Agile Development Software Market & Key Players
May 5, 2020
Companies in the agile development software market are vying suggestive steps to tackle the challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The report on the agile development software market provides a bird’s eye view of the current proceedings and advancements within the landscape....
AWS Launches Search Website Powered by Machine Learning to Quickly Search COVID-19 Dataset
May 1, 2020
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new search website powered by machine learning that can help researchers quickly and easily search tens of thousands of research papers and documents using natural language questions.
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) released the CORD-19 dataset (COVID-19 Open...
New Report Shows Government Mandated Requirements Will Drive Next Wave of Cybersecurity Market Growth
Apr 28, 2020
The cybersecurity market report examines security technology and solutions while assessing the risks and operational issues relative to current and anticipated cybersecurity technologies. The report also analyzes the impact regionally and evaluates leading cybersecurity solution provider companies,...
Pandemics, Public-Private Partnerships, and Force Majeure
Apr 24, 2020
Unprepared and Naïve
As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads and economics stagnate and operate in isolation, the impact of significantly reduced economic activity continues to negatively impact the viability of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The Covid-19 pandemic is placing PPP Special Purpose...
PSF CEO on NBC Washington Discusses Efforts to Combat COVID-19
Apr 21, 2020
Public Spend Forum is directly supporting government professionals and healthcare workers to address critical shortages for ventilators, respirators, personal protective equipment (PPE) and more, by providing free data on suppliers and inventory on GovShop.
Reporter Melissa Mollet from NBC...
Report: U.S. Federal Government Spend on COVID-19 Response
Apr 20, 2020
Insights for Agency Leaders and Policy Makers
U.S. federal government spending priorities are shifting in response to the evolving demands of the COVID-19 response. In Censeo Consulting’s latest report, they highlight several key insights from the past 4 weeks of federal spend data to inform...
EU, UK Guidance on Public Procurement Rules during COVID-19
Apr 17, 2020
The European Commission has set out guidance that is relevant EU-wide and also in the UK during the Brexit transitional period (which runs to 31 December 2020) explaining the flexibility allowed under the rules in situations of procurement in extreme urgency. Purchases that are subject to public...
Fix police procurement and you fix police tech
Apr 16, 2020
We are delighted to hear from Simon Hall, CEO at PoliceBox.
Policing has increasingly become the front-end or the “sharp-edge” of the whole range of social services available to the community. This is because police officers are often the very first point of contact for a vulnerable individual...
Government Contractor Market Research Case Study: Covid-19 3D Printing
Apr 15, 2020
As the reality of COVID-19 and our response to the pandemic unfolded in March of 2020, my Public Spend Forum colleagues and I had the unique opportunity to contribute our market research expertise for various government agencies sourcing masks, ventilators and other personal protective equipment...
Expediting Procurement of Needed Healthcare Services, Infrastructure, and Goods through PPPs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 14, 2020
Caught Off-Guard and Mired in Red-Tape
As governments belatedly ramp up their efforts to mobilize resources to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, they are seeking ways to expedite and leverage the resources of the healthcare sector (both public and private) to augment their pandemic tactical...
Searching for Critical COVID-19 Related Suppliers
Apr 9, 2020
The critical need for personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies to help combat COVID-19 is prevalent all across news today. During this time, Public Spend Forum is supporting government professionals by providing free data on suppliers and available inventory for ventilators,...
Coronavirus Crisis: How To Quickly Modernize Government Procurement Before It’s Too Late
Apr 7, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the deficiencies in the way governments strategize for, and implement public procurement. To see evidence of this, we need only look at the United States, the current epicentre of the virus and the world’s largest economy. It is plain to see the inconsistent...
