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The Problem with Bid Prices in Numbers and Words

Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

Tennessee construction attorney Matthew DeVries has described the outcome of an Alabama court case in which a bidder left out the word "thousand" in a bid price and was held to the significantly lower bid amount by the public agency. Mike Purdy's Public Contracting Blog © 2018 by Michael E. Purdy Associates, LLC - [link]

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. This undermines business confidence, leading to low competition and higher prices for goods and services. by value in 2022, 3.2% in 2023, and 3.7%

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Why DoD treats non-traditional innovation suppliers as just plain commercial

Federal News Network

Just this month, the Defense Pricing and Contracting unit issued a memo underscoring that authority. This authority has existed since 2018, but it’s rarely been used, if at all, by contracting officers or by prime contractors. ‘Hey folks, this has been around since 2018, get off your duff and use it’?

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Strategies for Dealing with a Government Shutdown

SmallGovCon

A Congressional Research Service report after the 2018-19 shutdown looked at the effect on contractors. As such, the fact that the Army received any work during October 2013 obligated it to pay the full contract price for that month. These cases were completely unlike Amaratek’s case because the performance unit was months.

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Case study: Investigating suspected fraud with opentender.net

Open Contracting Partnership

In 2016, the local government issued a continued construction tender with an estimated price of Rp. In 2018, there was another tender for Rp. Furthermore, in February 2018, there was a photo of a building frame with one dome that was not yet finished. billion (USD 116k) which was announced on June 28, 2018. billion (US$1.2

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White House, GSA move to streamline procurement process with new data tool

FedScoop

In the circular, OMB highlighted critical data modernization efforts in progress, such as The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 , often referred to as the Evidence Act. We’re specifically just addressing how data gets shared into the [HDE] — and this is a governmentwide effort versus an agency-specific effort.”

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2025 Canadian Trade Outlook: Trade Remedies

Import and Trade Remedies

These assessments are typically caused by an exporter’s failure to alert the CBSA to changes in costs, domestic sales, market conditions and terms of sale in their export market, which may require an exporter to adjust its export prices to avoid dumping. are diverted to other markets. tariffs.

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