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Tech Showcase: Avening Tech Focuses on Management & Technical Support Services Across Sectors
Oct 26, 2020
Avening Tech is a woman-owned/veteran-owned small business focused on providing management and technical support services to commercial, state, local, and federal government organizations. For the federal government, they focus on missions related to national security and their experience includes...
G4S & Serco: Everybody thinks transparency is a great idea; we still don’t have any
Oct 22, 2020
Senior executives from Britain’s four largest public services outsourcing firms, G4S, Atos, Serco and Capita, appeared before the people’s watchdog — Members of Parliament on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). G4S and Serco remain under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office; they had...
Four Ways to Engage with GovShop Resources
Oct 22, 2020
Forwarding Public Spend Forum’s mission to create open government markets, our supplier intelligence, GovShop, allows buyers and suppliers to connect more easily through better market and supplier research. With this platform, we’re working to lower barriers to entry, support better public...
What bothers suppliers most about public procurement?
Oct 22, 2020
Supply Management highlights the key points of the Public Procurement Review Service (PPRS) Progress Report which found the top areas of complaint about public procurement from suppliers in 2019-20 were late payments and advertising of contracts. The next three biggest areas of complaint were...
UK Government Digital Service launches Digital Buying Guide to support procurement best practice in any country
Oct 22, 2020
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has launched a Digital Buying Guide to support best practice in procurement overseas. The initiative is part of the Global Digital Marketplace Programme, aimed at helping other countries make their digital procurement more open and effective, in collaboration...
5 Ways to Engage with Government While Social Distancing
Oct 19, 2020
What are some of the easiest and most effective ways to stay engaged with the government during the COVID-19 pandemic? In these unprecedented times, it may be difficult or unclear about how to keep up with government engagement goals.
In line with Public Spend Forum’s core belief that the...
Leveraging GovShop In Response to COVID-19: Update on Our Efforts
Oct 19, 2020
In times of crisis — every minute counts.
And when the COVID-19 pandemic took America by storm in March 2020, Public Spend Forum got to work. We did this through GovShop, our innovative supplier intelligence platform — where we mobilized the global community to enrich the R&D ecosystem for...
Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud 12 now live
Oct 16, 2020
The latest version of the UK government’s G-Cloud framework has gone live, offering public sector bodies access to more than 38,000 cloud services through the digital marketplace. Crown Commercial Service (CCS) reports a 25% uplift in the number of cloud services featured this time around...
Army Testing Augmented Reality Goggles for Working Dogs
Oct 12, 2020
Military canines will be receiving a new tool to assist their missions. Not a new bone — but rather a pair of augmented reality (AR) goggles specially designed for dogs.
Throughout many military operations, these military canines are trained and instructed to perform a number of crucial...
Retail Store Dedicated to Pandemic Necessities
Oct 12, 2020
As 2020 continues, we are understanding that there is a first for everything! This holds true for the United States’ first retail chain that sells products to help combat the coronavirus.
“Covid-19 Essentials” stores have received a popular demand from Americans willing to put money where...
New Test Detects Coronavirus in Just 5 Minutes Using Innovative CRISPR Tech
Oct 9, 2020
The newest innovation researches are working on is a novel CRISPR tests which detects the coronavirus in up to five minutes. As mentioned in the Science Magazine article, outrageously expensive lab equipment is not needed for this diagnostic, making it readily available for use in doctor’s...
Best practices for tech transformation in government
Oct 8, 2020
As governments around the world deal with the global pandemic and economic challenges, the need for digital transformation and exceptional government customer experience (CX) has never been greater, writes Forrester.
In its latest report, it discusses best practices for ‘customer-obsessed’...
