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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...
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...
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...
Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Applications in Government
Apr 8, 2019
Government contractors have a new means to provide their services
The way forward for most occupations and services is through increased automation and digitization. Jobs are increasingly relying on computers and other digital technology to increase productivity and decrease costs. This is seen...
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...
Circular Cities – Innovating To Tackle Plastic Waste
Apr 4, 2019
Registration for the ‘Circular Cities – Innovating to tackle plastic waste’ event at Scotland House (Brussels) on 16 May is now open. The conference is during #EUGreenWeek. Join others from EU institutions, cities, industry, civil society, academia and H2020 stakeholders for a one-day...
Public Sector Outsourcing To Commercial Companies – We Need More Training
Apr 4, 2019
Following the UK Government’s published guide, the Outsourcing Playbook, party-independent think tank, Reform, says expertise in procurement should be improved with more training for those tasked with doing deals often involving very large amounts of taxpayers’ money – rather than banning the...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Mar 29, 2019
GSA picks Ernst and Young to phase out the DUNS number, DHS is funding a new immersive cyber-training platform, and a new program is looking to test, fund and build federal employees’ ideas for using tech to improve their agencies. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for...
How Agile Procurement is Here to Change the Face of Government Contracting
Mar 29, 2019
How Agile project management practices can save the government contracting industry by allowing agencies to stay ahead of their problems
We can feel it every time we respond to a 200 page RFP or insist contracts can accommodate every possible future scenario. Public procurement has gone stale. The...
Please Procure Responsibly: The State Of Public Service Commissioning
Mar 28, 2019
Independent, non-party, charitable think tank Reform has published a research paper this week on improving government outsourcing (rather than banning it). Government needs private firms and charities to deliver public services, it says, but should improve the rules for outsourcing. The report...
