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Job Opening: Purchasing Manager

Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

City of Bellingham Position: Purchasing Manager Location: Bellingham, Washington Closing Date: Friday, August 11, 2017 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time Interview Schedule: The most qualified candidates will be asked to participate in a panel interview on August 31, 2017. Experience with contract administration strongly preferred.

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ProcureWare Product Tip – Top 10 new features for 2017

Procureware

As a group of us were reminiscing about all the changes we’ve had in 2017, the conversation turned to how proud we are of all the product advancements we’ve made over the past year. In 2017, we added functions for tracking any kind of supplier certification that could include HIPPA, ISO, Fed RAMP, or any other.

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How legislators could make things a little easier for those companies working with the government

Federal News Network

So, this was that R&D tax credit was one of the issues in the 2017 tax bill. How do you manage that in contract administration? What can you tell me about where things currently stand? David Berteau Well, first of all, let’s look at the big picture. So, but how do you verify that in a proposal?

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Government Contracts Issues for a Recession

Procurement Notes

Additionally, generally, the reasonable costs of preparing, submitting, and negotiating an REA are contract administration costs, and consequently are also recoverable. 6, 2017) (“U.S. 362(a), prohibiting the CO from commencing administrative actions or proceedings against U.S. 146] See id. 147] See, e.g., U.S.

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

FAR 52.216-4 (Economic Price Adjustment-Labor and Material (JAN 2017)) provides an adjustment based upon a contractor’s actual cost experience for labor/fringe and materials. The goal is for the modification to be more of an issue of the parties responding to a performance dilemma, then it is altering the premise of the contract award.