Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This settlement reinforces the importance of holding accountable health care providers who seek financial gain above quality patient care.” Attorney Andrew Luger for the District of Minnesota stated, “Businesses who engage in improper Medicare billing practices undercut the legitimate provision of healthcare services for patients in need.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Subsequently, in 2016, the Administrative Court of Appeal in Dammam confirmed the appointment of the first Saudi woman as an arbitrator in a commercial dispute in KSA, Ms. Vision 2030 highlights the importance of providing equal opportunities for men and women in all sectors. of the KSAs workforce, up from 20% in 2016.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Passing the legislation is important “given the amount of dollars that are at stake, but also … [the] security implications and just pure efficiencies and resiliency of operations,” Triplette said. “We Most of these software license purchases are purposeful, but some are redundant, duplicative, simply unnecessary,” he said.

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Redstone Government Consulting

AUGUST 26, 2024

A 2016 study by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) found that pay was the second most important factor of job satisfaction. Many employers focus on the numbers behind the dollar sign, but total compensation goes beyond the paycheck.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Between 2016 and 2022, DoD took 15,000 OTA actions worth about $70 billion. That’s very important for us as practitioners,” Evangelista said. The Defense Department is increasingly turning to Other Transaction Authority contracts (OTAs) as a mechanism to fund research and development projects.

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Inside Government Contracts

AUGUST 21, 2023

A 2018 RAND study found protests of DoD procurements to be exceedingly uncommon, however: Between 2008 and 2016, less than 0.3% Particularly when taken together, those data support the idea that the bid protest system serves a necessary and important oversight function, improving the integrity and quality of government contracting actions.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

Understanding the nature of today’s job market and the importance of effectively recruiting and retaining its employees, the HR department at Manatee County Sheriff’s Office took important steps to transform the way it evaluates employees’ and managers’ performance. At the same time, the number of applications per job decreased by 39%.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Kohn , the author of a landmark 2016 paper on wildlife whistleblower awards. For example, in 2016, the FWS publicized an offer of a $5,000 award for information on the illegal killing of an endangered gray wolf in Southeast Oregon. The program has tremendous potential and could revolutionize the enforcement of wildlife crime.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 17, 2024

How domestic courts approach challenges to arbitration awards is of increasing importance as foreign parties often decide to seat an arbitration in a jurisdiction that they believe will provide the greatest stability to governing the arbitration process. billion escrow (approx. 8.5m) and PKR 9.23 billion (approx.

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Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This effect can be particularly important in countries with scarce physical and human capital. Institutional Quality Matters Another important finding of our research is that the effect of public debt on growth depends on institutional quality. This is particularly important in the case of highly indebted countries.

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Federal News Network

JULY 24, 2024

Between 2016 and 2022, DoD took 15,000 OTA actions worth about $70 billion. As OTAs continue to increase, Bell said the CFOC decision is important because it further dispels the myth that these agreements are protest-proof. GAO says the Army spent more than $6.9 In fiscal 2022, the department took about 4,400 actions worth $10.7

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 13, 2024

An ambitious urban renewal process has been taking place in the informal settlements of Buenos Aires since 2016. Housing authorities used ACIJ data and information about Villa 20 for their own assessments and official reports analyzing their work from 2016 to 2023 (pages 7 and 8).

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. She envisions making CX measurements as important as operational ones in evaluating the success of government programs. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Emergency Arbitration The SIAC Rules 2016 (“ 2016 Rules ”) allow a party to apply for the appointment of an emergency arbitrator along with or following the notice of arbitration. The procedure has seen substantial interest from users, with 56 applications filed since 2016.

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SmallGovCon

JULY 2, 2024

A recent General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report is a reminder to federal contractors about the importance of being accurate in representing small business status. We’ve written before about some of the confusion contractors may have regarding self-reporting in SAM. Company Agrees to Pay $1.75

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Transportation Transportation Government Contracts Consulting 101

FedScoop

AUGUST 28, 2024

When Gundeep Ahluwalia took the CIO role at the Department of Labor in 2016, technology modernization meant basic digital upgrades: delivering Wi-Fi for agency offices and putting laptops in the hands of employees. They’re a continuum: cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, emerging technologies.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Among many other concerning issues, the report highlighted how, despite the fundamental importance of measuring savings, ‘ NHS Supply Chain has used different methods to report savings to different audiences, which could cause confusion.’ The NAO published a scathing report on 12 January 2024.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The point of the project, Fretwell told FedScoop, was to show how well the government was performing on certain important aspects of web page operations. Several agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Labor, noted the importance of the Civic Hacking Agency’s tool.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2023

Launched by the Saudi government in 2016, the Saudi Vision 2030 Program is a sweeping reform initiative with the aim of diversifying the country’s economy and reducing its reliance on oil production. That’s why it’s important to analyze spend and successfully define/execute sourcing and supplier management strategies across all spend.

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University of Bristol

JULY 15, 2018

In 2016, the EU adopted the Web Accessibility Directive to foster better access to the websites and mobile applications underpinning public services – in particular by people with disabilities, and especially persons with vision or hearing impairments. As Dr Andrea Gideon and I argued in 2016 *, this is the case.

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FedInsider

APRIL 2, 2024

Rather, it’s about the perceptions of integrity, said Jim Richberg, head of cyber policy and global field CISO at Fortinet, who was involved in the assessment of Russian interference in the 2016 elections. “If Iran also sent intimidating emails to voters in 2020.

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NIH NITAAC

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

2016 82 $3,357,499,727.16 Annual Award Totals By GWAC CIO-SP3 CIO-SP3 SB FY Count Amount Count Amount 2012 16 $127,460,274.93 9 $34,544,360.00 2013 48 $1,621,588,463.94 73 $910,907,874.64 2014 81 $2,294,093,294.73 118 $1,918,423,820.44 2015 79 $2,208,431,658.80 152 $1,509,447,910.31 134 $1,077,394,767.87 2017 71 $2,202,708,072.18

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Introduction of the radio was just as important in World War I, while radar and sonar – other forms of conveying crucial information – played an important role in World War II. The advent of the telegraph was a central part of Civil War strategy and tactics.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 16, 2015

This initiative, a subset of the one above, is one of the hottest areas of interest for manufacturers in 2016. Manufacturers must take it upon themselves to do the following important tasks: Verify supplier capacity. It may be the most important risk assessment you will make. What you discover may be very surprising.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MARCH 29, 2024

The new system should help customs authorities and traders operate more efficiently, in line with the key objectives of the Union Customs Code, which was introduced in 2016. The post European Union: New central Proof of Union Status (PoUS) system available appeared first on Import and Trade Remedies Blog.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 3, 2024

of the LCIA Arbitration Rules 2020 simply requires signing the award while the ICC 2021 Arbitration Rules and the SIAC Rules 2016 do not even mention signing the award. In contrast to these provisions of arbitral institutions in the UAE, there is no similar requirement in the rules of leading arbitration institutions.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

She’s also just been elected President of the African Public Procurement Network (APPN), which convenes procurement authorities from 54 countries and she emphasizes the importance of building on existing foundations to strengthen the network’s support for public procurement in Africa.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 79

Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

India endorsed the request however Pakistan unilaterally retracted this request and proposed that the dispute be referred to arbitration, in 2016. The ICJ’s decision stressed the importance of respecting international agreements and fulfilling treaty obligations, providing guidance for the future implementation of the project.

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GovLoop

JUNE 2, 2023

Despite a Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Strategy that’s been in place since 2016 and a Federal Cyber Workforce Management and Coordinating Working Group dating from 2019, governments continue to struggle to find enough qualified cyber personnel.

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Balance Professional Services Import Government 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 11, 2024

The general importance of climate change-related disputes can be measured on the steady increase of cases which are being brought by environmental advocacy organisations or governments in anticipation of the massive costs related to adapting to or mitigating climate change. 2 O 285/15 Essen High Court).

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JULY 10, 2024

It is important, however, to be mindful that gratuties laws in many states and localities (including statutes, regulations, and contracts clauses) may prohibit such conduct. For example, in 2016 the Court overturned the corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Before joining SNG, he hosted “Government Matters” on Washington, DC’s ABC 7 from 2016 to 2021. His guest list on radio, TV, event stages, and podcast platforms has included virtually every important name in the federal government. He has covered all three branches of the federal government as a broadcast journalist since 1998.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 21, 2023

In terms of technology, we developed an app, FOCO , that allows for the national monitoring of Paraguay’s most important fund for education infrastructure, worth about $90 million annually. In reAcción, we had an important precedent to FOCO from which we learnt. In 2016, we developed the official app for the Healthcare Ministry.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 20, 2023

13/2016 on the Judicial Assembly in the Emirate of Dubai , the General Assembly (or what is sometimes translated as the General Authority) is constituted of eight judges including the president and the most senior judges. The Powers of the General Assembly As per Article 20 of the Dubai Law No.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 5, 2024

He supported this position by referring to India’s termination of 76 of 87 of its BITs in 2016. Ever since then, the Indian government has taken a more cautious approach with the 2016 India Model BIT (“India Model BIT”). The shift in India’s position has become more visible after the White Industries award and subsequent cases.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

To put this risk in context, under the SIAC Rules 2016, any jurisdictional objection on the grounds of the existence or validity of the arbitration agreement may be made initially before the Registrar. In this period, 24 judgments of the Indian courts were rendered in relation to SIAC awards.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In 2016, the KSA launched the Saudi Vision 2030 , an initiative to, among others, attract foreign and domestic investment by improving the regulatory environment and enhancing business opportunities. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (“KSA”) is undergoing a transformative shift in its economy. In contrast, under Article 5.2

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