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Procurement Methods vs. Solicitation Tools: What Every Procurement Professional Needs to Know

The Procurement ClassRoom

For example, Liberia’s Amended Public Procurement and Concessions Act (2010) , Section 50, permits the use of restricted bidding under specific conditions. The primary solicitation tool used for full competition is the Standard Bidding Documents for Goods , Works, and Non-Consulting Services for competitive bidding.

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Friday Flash 11/08/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? Attendees will gain critical insights into: What’s next for the VA budget and healthcare investments? is less than one month away! Authored by Scott N.

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Open Contracting Partnership

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. Second, they sought to leverage Paraguay’s accessible, high quality open contracting data.

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Government Contracts Issues for a Recession

Procurement Notes

First, interest payments on the accumulating debt will accelerate, gobbling up more and more of the Federal budget. The current Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) outlook shows, for FY2024, interest on the national debt is budgeted at $870 billion, and defense spending at $822 billion. [98] A recession likely hastens that day.

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OMB Issues Command to Increase Small Business Participation on MACs

SmallGovCon

The memorandum , issued through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), refers to a number of other policy documents. Perhaps most importantly, OMB has directed federal agencies to apply the small business Rule of Two for all orders, which should has the potential of leading to an increase in small business set-asides.

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OFPP expands small business ‘rule of two’ to multiple award contracts

Federal News Network

“This guidance takes an important step in ensuring our diverse base of small businesses have opportunities in a greater diversity of acquisition strategies,” said Small Business Administration Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman in a blog posted by the Office of Management and Budget today. “By SBA highlighted this problem in May.

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Friday Flash 01/31/2025

The Coalition for Government Procurement

In the report, GAO examined every information technology (IT)-related recommendation made to Federal agencies since 2010 to understand barriers to advancing IT systems. GAO found that nearly 25 percent of recommendations and 46 percent of priority recommendations made to agencies were left unaddressed.