Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 30, 2023

We have published a new Scottish Procurement Policy Note (SPPN) on updates to procurement thresholds SPPN 5/2023. This policy note provides changes to financial thresholds to the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, the Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016 and the Concession Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2024

When the Office of Federal Procurement Policy launched its Better Contracting Initiative in November 2023, leaders promised this time would be different when it came to developing enterprisewide software licenses. The General Services Administration is about to deliver on that promise.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Public procurement stands out as the most vulnerable sector to corruption in Indonesia. The collaboration revolves around the corruption risk monitoring platform, Opentender.net , developed by ICW and the national public procurement agency LKPP.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes. Procurement authorities become the initiators,“ says Uwingeneye.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

In 2016, the government launched Proyecto Integral de Reurbanizacin (PIRU), an ambitious urbanization initiative aimed at improving housing and infrastructure in informal settlements. Their neighborhood, though full of life, remained almost invisible to the city around them.

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ivalua

MAY 6, 2020

On September 7th 2016, a relatively unknown person became the richest man on the planet during two days before Bill Gates reclaimed his title (recently overtaken by Jeff Bezos). The post Zara – The Benefits of Agile Procurement / Supply Chain appeared first on Ivalua. Zara’s Supply Chain Approach.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JULY 2, 2024

We’re pleased to welcome a blog from Denis McFadden, Deputy Director, Procurement Services Division to reflect on the procurement role MPIP have played in supporting and enabling the delivery of new Social Security benefits in Scotland. MPIP adapted the procurement documentation to meet the demands of Agile delivery.

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PwC: Government & Public Sector

OCTOBER 28, 2021

256), has been adopted the “Regulation containing the procedures for digitizing public procurement procedures pursuant to Article 44 of legislative decree of 18 April 2016, no. L'articolo Digitalization of public tenders: e-procurement Regulation proviene da PwC TLS Blog. 50” (“Regulation”).

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The National Health Service (NHS) has been running a centralised model for health care procurement in England for a few years now. For example, if a product cost £10 in 2015-16 and reduced to £9 in 2016-17, Supply Chain would report a saving of £1. It focuses on the specific point of ‘Progress in delivering savings for the NHS’.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 15, 2024

Cyber Command is aiming to expand its acquisition team and rely on flexible buying strategies as CYBERCOM becomes a focal point of cyber procurement in the Defense Department. The command was initially granted limited acquisition authority in fiscal 2016, with 10 billets and $75 million in buying authority over five years.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 26, 2024

First deployed in 2016 , ICMP is a digital catalog with software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that makes it easy for customers in the intelligence community (IC) to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.

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PwC: Government & Public Sector

OCTOBER 17, 2022

50 of April 18, 2016 (“Italian Public Procurement Code”), the Decree defines limits and operating terms of “serious tax violations that have not been definitively sanctioned”, suitable to determine the exclusion of the economic operator from participation in public tenders.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We may be approaching such a moment in the federal procurement landscape, when changes that were in the works for years converge and create significant shifts in what seems like the blink of an eye. The tectonic procurement plates have been shifting for years as multiple federal procurement vehicles are taking the next step in their evolution.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 25, 2019

It is an assessment of the evaluated price of a responsive bid to ascertain that it is not unreasonably high nor unreasonably low, but fair enough to the procuring entity and the supplier. After bid evaluation, the Procurement Agent does a price reasonableness analysis to determine if the price is reasonable. According to Section 6.4

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Federal News Network

JULY 24, 2024

While federal procurement lawyers say the court’s decision isn’t earth shattering or a significant change in legal precedence, the judge’s ruling cements the path for contractors to file protests of OTAs. The Tucker Act gives the Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction over federal procurement disputes.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

Five ways to improve public sector procurement for startups For this blog piece, we look at how public sector procurement should improve to help smaller businesses to work with the government. By 2022, the government has aimed for 33% of all procurement to be done with SMEs, so there’s a long way to go.

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Telles.eu

JULY 4, 2023

The European Commission has just published a study on the use of the innovation partnership with TED data for the 2016-2022 period and frankly the data shows in a bit more detail what I already knew from preparing a couple of recent conference presentations.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Between 2016 and 2022, DoD took 15,000 OTA actions worth about $70 billion. Under OTAs, competition requirements are determined by the agreement officer, allowing for more creativity in the procurement process. In fiscal 2022, the department took about 4,400 actions worth $10.7 But with OTAs, the competition standard is more flexible.

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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% DoD acquires roughly $400 billion in products and services from contractors every year–about as much as all other federal agencies combined. of all DoD contracts were protested.

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WashngtonExec

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Kent Crabtree Vice President of Procurement and Vendor Management, Maximus With nearly two decades of experience in procurement, Kent Crabtree has become a leader in the supply chain space, uniquely understanding the challenges and identifying the solutions. During his time at Maximus, [.]

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PwC: Government & Public Sector

JULY 6, 2021

On June 30, the Council of Ministers approved the draft that would delegate to the Government (“Procurement Delegation Law”) the adoption of one or more legislative decrees on public contracts with the purpose of rationalizing, reorganizing and simplifying the current Legislative Decree no. 50 of 18 April 2016 (“Public Procurement Code”).

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In our 2016–17 ACE project, we focused on collecting data from development aid donors and lenders rather than from national governments, assuming that this would be a more reliable source since such agencies face a lot of pressure to be transparent, and also have the capacity to collect data.

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ivalua

JANUARY 22, 2019

For Procurement leaders in particular there couldn’t be a better time to do so. A recent study by the Hackett Group found that only 63% of Procurement organizations have even developed a plan for digital transformation. at the end of 2016 and much further since, far ahead of competitor growth. The result?

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

To shed light on the value of having high-quality procurement data, we spoke to product owner Hans Minkes at TenderNed , the Dutch government’s online tendering system and one of the agencies furthest along in implementing eForms among the EU Member States. The rest come from commercial applications.

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PwC: Government & Public Sector

MAY 17, 2021

With the judgment of February 3, 2021 (joined cases C-155/19 and C-156/19), the Court of Justice of the European Union addressed the question relating to the formal qualification of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio and the consequent obligation to apply the rules on public evidence contained in Legislative Decree 18 April 2016, n.

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NASPO

MAY 3, 2021

We will also build upon previous acquisition reformation and transformation work and publications from a partnership between NASCIO and NASPO (the National Association of State Procurement Officials) that started in 2016.

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PwC: Government & Public Sector

JUNE 17, 2021

50 of 18 April 2016 (“Public Procurement Code”), in order to simplify and facilitate the achievement of the objectives contained in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (“NRRP”). The Council of Ministers has introduced, within the national regulatory framework contained in Decree Law no.

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ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

Niul Burton wrote a great article in Industry Week titled “Procurement 2025: 10 Challenges that Will Transform Global Sourcing”. For those of you who are executives in Supply Chain, Procurement or New Product Introduction/Development, this is a must read. We are not your father’s traditional Procure-to-Pay solution.

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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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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Second, in addressing the effects of a State aid decision on the assessment of compliance with procurement law of the legal structure used to implement the aid package (including the treatment from a procurement perspective of put options as State aid measures). I should from the outset disclose again that I was involved in the case.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 26, 2019

As the field of Procurement is still evolving and scholars don’t seem to subscribe to universal definition of concepts such as what constitute the procurement cycle, this article does not make reference to any textbook or academic publication. Usually this applies to the evaluation of services.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The IT Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC) documented these abuses with the $10 billion JEDI cloud procurement and wrote Congress to expose the unfettered abuses. The JRSS is another example that IT-AAC challenged when the Defense Department awarded a sole source contract to Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) in 2016.

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SmallGovCon

JULY 2, 2024

The System for Award Management (SAM) is one key part of the federal procurement apparatus. Pavion ceased to qualify as a small business after its predecessor company was acquired in 2016 by the private equity firm Tower Arch Capital. Company Agrees to Pay $1.75

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ivalua

JULY 24, 2019

Maryland Department of General Services Office of State Procurement launches new e-procurement system. BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Department of General Services today announced the Office of State Procurement launched the state’s new e-procurement system eMaryland Marketplace Advantage (eMMA). Governor Boyd K.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Although OTAs have been around for many years, since 2016 their use has, to use a pun, skyrocketed. 4023, which permits the DoD to procure certain supplies, including medical, telecommunications, and aeronautical supplies by contract or otherwise. National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, Pub. 85-568, Section 203(5). B-417379, Apr.

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

The Grants Oversight and New Efficiency (GONE) Act of 2016 – The goal of this law is to provide visibility into aged grants and enable efficient closeout of expired grants. The Procurement Link. His experience spans various key areas of procurement, supply chain, grants management and government funding.

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Management Supply Chain Budget Transparency 52

NIH NITAAC

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Since NITAAC was founded in 1996 as part of the Clinger-Cohen Act, our federal acquisition program has been focused on reimagining information technology procurements with outstanding customer service. 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

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