How to Find Government Contractors Who Deliver Emerging Technologies
Feb 7, 2020
Let’s say you’re a government contracting professional with an opportunity to step outside the ordinary and try one of the innovative acquisition methods to procure emerging technologies.
You and your customer are excited about introducing emerging technologies into your program and there’s...
Recap & Recording: AR/VR Market Map – Overview of Segments and Suppliers
Oct 24, 2019
There are many ways in which augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) can assist the government and help it function more efficiently. With applications ranging from training to maintenance to JIT technical instruction and simulations, the Extended Reality sector is a hot market. So Public Spend...
Recap & Recording: Understanding the AR/VR Market and Suppliers
Jun 27, 2019
Given the pace of technological and social change, we are in the midst of a transformation in the way we interact with computing machines. Augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies are enabling engagement with data in three dimensions and changing the way that learning and training...
Recap & Recording: The Ultimate Guide to Interagency Acquisitions – MACs, GWACs & Coops
Jun 25, 2019
Understanding how interagency acquisition works can help your agency leverage the full buying power of the federal government to meet your contracting goals.
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There are three primary types of interagency acquisition that have spawned over the last 30 years, and in this webinar, our...
Breakthrough: Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Applications and Startups in Government
May 1, 2019
We are in the midst of a transformation in the way we interact with computing machines. Augmented and virtual reality technologies are starting to enable heads-up engagement with data in three dimensions, with government agencies in many ways leading this change. Whether reviewing the designs...
Recap & Recording: How to Use GovShop to Discover Cooperative Procurement Contracts
Jan 22, 2019
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State and local governments use cooperative procurement agreements to speed up procurement, leverage buying power of government as a whole, and to find the best suppliers. However, researching and finding the right coops can be challenging time-consuming. Until now. GovShop has created an...
Applications for AI in Military IoT – Invitation to a NATO/DefSec Workshop
Oct 2, 2019
We are delighted to inform our readers of a new series of workshops aimed at influencing and hopefully solving some of the hottest issues facing NATO right now. This is a fascinating set of discussions because each topic will tackle a concrete challenge that NATO needs to solve through...
Don’t let politics confuse you in business: the landscape for technology acquisitions post-Brexit
Sep 26, 2019
We are pleased to feature this personal opinion piece from Ian Fishwick, director of Innopsis, the trade association for digital infrastructure and services to the UK public sector.
Around three years ago, I took my family to a Jamie’s restaurant for a celebration meal. The meal itself was...
First Open Source Knowledge Graph on European Public Procurement
Jul 19, 2019
The ‘TheyBuyForYou’ project brings together researchers, innovators and public administrations from five European countries who are working on guidelines for procurement data visualisation. An international research team with open data specialists from the University of Southampton have...
Federal IT Market Grew by 10 Percent in Fiscal 2018
Jul 3, 2019
The Trump administration is making significant commitments to bolster information technology (IT) infrastructure. The federal government outlines intentions of substantial investments in digital services for citizens, upgrading information security, and data-driven decision making in the...
Forbes Examines the Top 10 Cybersecurity Companies to Watch
Jun 21, 2019
Businesses are in dire need of moving past the obsolete “trust but verify” model of security. Companies are offering innovative security solutions founded in a “Zero Trust Security framework” instead. This framework enforces the least privilege and never trusts, always verifies from within...
Cloud Players: Who’s Who in the Government Market According to GovTech
Jun 21, 2019
There are a handful of large-scale, well-established big wigs in the cloud industry. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are the heaviest hitters in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market, closely trailed by Google, IBM, and Oracle. However, GovTech uncovered a surprising reality when it...
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The public sector is undergoing massive changes with greater fiscal spending, tax changes, constrained budgets and much more scrutiny and regulation. Public procurement and finance …
On Wednesday, June 6, Public Spend Forum convened a Technology Procurement Symposium to identify barriers to government’s adoption of emerging technology and to …
Public Spend Forum runs a series of best practice public procurement webinars which explore how procurement professionals can and are using technology, leaner processes and …