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2024 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month

Government Contracts Legal Forum

The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series. In this series, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice will keep you up to date with a summary of the most notable bid protest sustain decision each month. Below, Crowell Consultant Cherie Owen discusses Peraton Inc. , B-422409.2,

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

Smart public procurement refers to making optimal decisions to minimize waste and enhance the quality, efficiency and sustainability of public spending when purchasing and contracting goods, works and services. Such engagement fosters an environment of trust, equity, and accountability, which is essential for sustainable economic development.

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Should Bid Protest Losers Pay?

Inside Government Contracts

A 2018 RAND study found protests of DoD procurements to be exceedingly uncommon, however: Between 2008 and 2016, less than 0.3% Moreover, GAO statistics show that in approximately half of all protests filed, protesters got some form of relief, be it voluntary corrective action by the agency or a sustain on the merits by GAO.

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Updated Procurement Policy Handbook

Scottish Government Procurement

Today marks the publication of the updated Procurement Policy Handbook, which replaces the previous Handbook published in 2008. The refresh reflects changes to the procurement policy landscape in Scotland.

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SeloVerde uses geospatial big data and AI/ML to monitor deforestation in supply chains, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector

Amazon provides grant funding to accelerate sustainability research and innovation through the RNCF and the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative ’s (ASDI) Promotional Credit Program. post-2008 deforestation). that it deployed in the AWS Cloud in 2023. SeloVerde 2.1’s SeloVerde 2.1’s The vision behind SeloVerde and CAR 2.0 [the

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DARPA kicks off its 10-year plan to create a ‘thriving lunar economy’

Federal News Network

The administration also said federal buildings have already cut emissions by more than 7% since 2020 and, as of 2022, have achieved a 39% overall reduction from 2008 levels.

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The Future of 5G Technology in Government

FedInsider

Since joining Booz Allen in 2008, he supported and led a number of network engineering projects at DISA, including deploying and sustaining an IP SATCOM system providing critical mission support to Iraq and Afghanistan, a CSfC gateway for mobile devices, an INMARSAT BGAN Gateway, and a prototype IP SATCOM system with WiMAX extension.