Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Do competitive bidding requirements apply? This state law enables certain types of public agencies to contract with certain community service organizations for certain public works projects without going through a competitive bidding process to select the community service organization. What public agency types are covered?

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In 2015, the company and VMWare agreed to pay a fine of $75.5 Multiple emails to Carahsoft’s attorney, Richard Conway of Blank Rome, also weren’t returned. Carahsoft has dealt with charges of violating the False Claims Act previously.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. Verifying Vendors for Credibility and Reliability: The first topic covered was the crucial process of vendor verification.

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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This contrasts with the position under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 - where disclosure "might prejudice fair competition between economic operators". This may include pricing, financial information which could affect the outcome of a future bid, intellectual property and trade secrets.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 26, 2019

It is based on years of experience from practicing Public and Project Procurement and takes into consideration bid evaluation procedures and practices applicable under several Public and Project Procurement legal and regulatory frameworks. Bid evaluation is the responsibility of a body known as the Bid Evaluation Panel.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

This made it simpler for specialists to bid for government work and increased government access to technology innovators. By 2015, there was a £4 billion ($5.09 It also found that single-bid contracts are both a governance risk and are, on average, more than seven percent more costly than multi-bid contracts.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A contract notice makes sure everyone knows what’s up for grabs, who’s bidding, and how decisions are made. Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. Bid A bid is a proposal that potential suppliers submit in response to a public contract opportunity.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

Create a single directory for public sector opportunities Any business that has bid for public tenders knows all too well what an arduous process it can be. Larger organisations have considerably greater resources at their disposal, in many cases sizeable bid management teams, to locate, track and apply for tenders – startups do not.

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GovSpend

MARCH 18, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. Verifying Vendors for Credibility and Reliability: The first topic covered was the crucial process of vendor verification.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Public procurement legal and regulatory framework (also called the procurement rules) in a country includes the constitution of the country, national procurement policies/laws, regulations, organizational procurement policies and the standard bidding documents. What is Procurement Legal and Regulatory Framework?

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

We rescored and revalidated the bids that we got last fall,” he said. NITAAC awarded the 10-year CIO-CS GWAC to 64 companies, all value-added resellers (VARs) or other equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in 2015. The number of points needed to meet the threshold to win a spot on the contract went down.

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2025

One important step in changing public procurement is the recently adopted Procurement Act 2023 , which supersedes the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Suppliers can participate in competitive dialogue to bid for defence and security contracts within the UK public sector.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In Fiscal Year 2022, 1,595 bid protests were filed with GAO. Back in 2015 , the Office of Federal Procurement Policy tested out a simple survey system for offerors to provide feedback on the acquisitions process. On average, the government awards over 11 million contracts per year. Today, we’ll take a look at what this entails.

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Government Contracts Advisor

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The Department of Defense (DOD) published a report on the Open DFARS Cases as of December 7, 2015, which indicates […]

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

Open data solutions such as CREDERE can help these businesses access the financial services they need in order to confidently bid on and deliver government contracts.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

the quantity and depth of new information) and whether new information is actionable for key stakeholders such as bidding firms; and (ii) the nature of demand for transparency, that is the existence of data users who are willing and able to act upon the information published. However, the average number of received bids increases by 0.5

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Background The Appeal was filed by SANESSOL, a company that was awarded a public bid for the provision of sanitation services in the City of Mirassol by the Municipality of the city in 2007. In 2012, SANESSOL requested a tariff revision, arguing for the necessity of re-establishing the contractual balance.

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VWV

JANUARY 4, 2021

For contracting authorities and suppliers bidding for public sector contracts, the procurement rules remain largely unchanged, at least for the moment. Some minor amendments have been made to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to ensure the rules will work in practice for a UK domestic system.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It works with data collected through tender forms and gives each procurement procedure an estimated risk rating at various stages of the contracting cycle, including tender, bid evaluation and award. The higher a procedure’s score, the more rules have potentially been broken.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 22, 2024

United States , exercising jurisdiction to consider a bid protest involving Other Transaction (“OT”) authority. 1 Addressing an issue of first impression, the Court held that a challenge to an OT solicitation for the follow-on production of goods and services is within the purview of the COFC’s bid protest jurisdiction. 24, 2020).

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Differences from Previous Procurement Regulations TheProcurement Act 2023 reformpresents several key differences compared to theContracts Regulations 2015, concentrating on transparency, efficiency, and supplier governance.

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Procurement Notes

AUGUST 10, 2021

Proposing Second, certifying compliance may be required as part of a bid or proposal. 1, 2015). [4] Submit reports as may be required by the Government[.]” [12] Hence, where applicable, failure to file the EEO-1 or VETS-4212 report is a performance failure. 13] That clause requires an offeror to make the following representation.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Moreover, such market partitioning would raise entry barriers for entities new to bidding for public contracts, as well as facilitate the emergence of anticompetitive and collusive practices in the more concentrated and partly isolated from potential competition ‘public markets’ ( Sanchez-Graells [2015] ) in ways that general legislation would not.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 2, 2024

The purpose of this regulation is to guarantee that the contracted work is genuinely carried out by the companies that successfully secured the bid and have been verified by the public procurement authorities. In possible exchange, Worley may have awarded Shaw a US$ 1.2 million contract.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 9, 2023

Training for businesses should focus on teaching them how to successfully participate in the public market and meet the requirements necessary to bid for government contracts. To be successful, training must be ongoing and targeted at both the government contracting agency itself and women-led businesses.

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

12, 2015) , the Board noted that “[t]he lack of an economic price escalation clause in the contract does not preclude a contractor from recovering damages for cost escalation incurred due to government-caused delays.” For instance, in Appeal of — ADT Constr. by Timothy S. Cory, Chapter 7 Tr., 57322, 15-1 B.C.A. ¶

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VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The most common grounds for direct awards of new contracts under Regulation 32 (use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 include where: No tenders or suitable tenders have been submitted in a previously advertised open or restricted procedure.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Check out the list of upcoming events and register below: October 3 : Webinar: Bid Protests and Other Recent Federal Contract-Related Litigation – and Impacts on Contractors – Click here to register. Other Upcoming Events The Coalition will have a packed calendar leading up to the Fall Training Conference!

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Procurement Notes

JUNE 15, 2021

Rather, CICA provides that a required debriefing is only available where competition/award is “on the basis of competitive proposals[.]” [16] “The term ‘competitive proposals’ is not defined by Bid Protest Regulations, nor is it expressly defined by statute or regulation.” [17] It uses the term offer, not bid or quote. 3703 , 10 U.S.C.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 1, 2024

The 10-year OASIS+ contract replaces the popular OASIS multiple award contract that has seen more than $70 billion in obligations since 2015. The first set of awards come about eight months since vendors submitted bids. Bids for NASA SEWP VI are coming due Aug. 28, though another extension is not out of the question.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

For example, they used RFIs to gather comments from the industry and national and international suppliers, public entities and academic institutions such as the University of Chile, to develop the standard bidding documents and redesign its framework agreements.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 8, 2024

United States , exercising jurisdiction to consider a bid protest involving Other Transaction (“OT”) authority. 1 Addressing an issue of first impression, the Court held that a challenge to an OT solicitation for the follow-on production of goods and services is within the purview of the COFC’s bid protest jurisdiction. 24, 2020).

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 15, 2024

As we bid farewell to Tom in his professional capacity, the Coalition extends our heartfelt gratitude for his years of service and wish him all the best in his well-deserved retirement. United States , exercising jurisdiction to consider a bid protest involving Other Transaction (“OT”) authority. 24-160 (July 16, 2024).

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Procurement Notes

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In 2011, HUDD re-solicited and re-competed administrative services contracts, leading to multitude of bid protests. More bid protests followed asserting that the NOFA was actually soliciting procurement contracts. .); 962 (2015). 511, 514 (2015) (quoting Sys. In response, HUDD undertook corrective action. 2014), cert.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 19, 2024

Envision the Choptank was founded in 2015 to help solve that problem. That knowledge enables Pollack to wear many hats: she assesses projects; helps write grant proposals and manages grants; prepares RFPs and oversees bid processes. She previously served as the city engineer for Salisbury, Md.,

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 1, 2024

United States , exercising jurisdiction to consider a bid protest involving Other Transaction (“OT”) authority. 1 Addressing an issue of first impression, the Court held that a challenge to an OT solicitation for the follow-on production of goods and services is within the purview of the COFC’s bid protest jurisdiction. 24, 2020).

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

” [5] Iron ore prices are down from 2021, but still above 2015-2019 averages. “In Circuit”) has stated that “a broad original competition may validate a broader range of later modifications without further bid procedures.” [62] In September 2022, iron ore was valued at approximately 99.8 percent from June 2021 to June 2022.

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