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How Resilient Are Your PPP Projects To Adverse Natural Events?
Jul 24, 2017
Adverse Natural Events are a Threat to PPP Infrastructure Projects
Infrastructure resilience is the ability to reduce the magnitude and/or duration of disruptive events. The effectiveness of a resilient infrastructure or enterprise depends upon its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or...
UK Government Procurement Collaboration – Crown Commercial Service Annual Report Published
Jul 20, 2017
This week, the UK’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) published its annual report and accounts. I took a first look at it here on Spend Matters UK/Europe, and we will have more analysis to follow. CCS, which is “trading fund” attached to the Cabinet Office (a central government department with a...
Booz Allen and Splunk Partner Up to Offer Cybersecurity Service
Jul 20, 2017
The Booz Allen Cyber4Sight for Splunk service works to provide threat intelligence data to security analysts through both analytics-based insights from the Splunk Enterprise Security platform and intelligence data from Booz Allen’s Cyber4Sight threat intelligence platforms. “As hackers continue...
Public Versus Private Sector Procurement: A Research Agenda?
Jul 19, 2017
(This guest post comes from Dr. @Richard Craven from the University of Leicester Law School and Dr. @Luke Butler from Bristol University.)
Introduction
In 2013, Peter Smith of Spend Matters wrote about findings from a survey on the differences between public sector and private sector...
Using the Acquisition Process to Increase Cybersecurity
Jul 18, 2017
Cyber attacks are not only more common now, but also more sophisticated. To keep pace with current cyberthreats, national security and defense agencies need to streamline their technology acquisitions. There are opportunities for vendors and defense agencies to collaborate and accelerate federal...
Public Sector Contracts Can Have a Serious Impact on a Firm’s Performance
Jul 17, 2017
There has been a perception in the UK in recent years that the major providers to the public sector in areas such as IT and outsourced services have made excess profits. “Big suppliers rip off Government” is a general view that much of the public still hold, whether or not that is the case.
But...
Hacking the Defense Acquisition Cycle
Jul 12, 2017
Product innovation in the U.S. Department of Defense follows an implicit rule: “Better, cheaper, faster—pick two.” Today, the military is simultaneously confronted with declining budgets, skyrocketing system development costs, and a diverse spectrum of rapidly evolving complex military...
Artificial Intelligence from SparkCognition That Teaches Itself
Jul 11, 2017
An artificial intelligence (AI) startup, SparkCognition, has dozens of aviation-industry customers and is now looking to work with the U.S. military. The Austin, Texas-based startup says their AIs can teach themselves enough about a field to assess situations and offer solutions. SparkCognition,...
USDA’s Innovative Procurement Success Story
Jul 7, 2017
Ed Harper, the Food and Nutrition Service’s director of the Office of Program Integrity for Child Nutrition Programs, worked with the Presidential Innovation Fellows to create a new online application prototype for free and reduced lunches. Harper explains they started under the America Competes...
Protecting Past Performance in a Competitive Marketplace
Jun 30, 2017
In today’s marketplace, government contractors must build a track record of strong past performance—it is a critical metric necessary to secure future awards. With each new contract, you have the opportunity to showcase your workforce and technical proficiency. Importantly, contractors who...
UK Government Urged To Find New Methods of Nuclear Build Funding
Jun 29, 2017
At a recent UK conference on nuclear new builds, a British peer and a former Defence Secretary and now chairman of trade body the Nuclear Industry Association has urged the government to come up with new funding methods for nuclear new builds, including the county’s proposed £10bn...
Best Practices for Technology Procurement from Miami-Dade County
Jun 28, 2017
Adil Khan, procurement business administrator for Miami-Dade County, offers insights and lessons learned on procurement information technology in state and local governments. According to Khan, electronic procurement management systems have benefits, but those that are currently available do not...
