FedScoop

APRIL 15, 2024

The OIG’s office identified nine contracts covering access to two different databases for this data between fiscal years 2019 and 2020. ICE, in particular, was flagged for using this data without an approved privacy impact assessment. ICE appears to have sent mixed messages on its approach to telemetry data.

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 5, 2024

This important anti-retaliation mechanism ensures the whistleblowers are able to continue working as their case is being evaluated and argued,” Nelson continued. In 2019, the scientists raised concerns to Exxon’s H.R. The language of AIR21 clearly indicates that objection to preliminary reinstatement does not constitute a stay.” “The

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ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2019

Redwood City, CA – August 5, 2019 – Ivalua, a global leader in spend management, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner “ Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites. Now positioned as a Leader in two Gartner Magic Quadrants citing the Source-to-Pay space. Gartner Inc., Gartner Inc.,

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ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2019

Redwood City, CA – August 5, 2019 – Ivalua, a global leader in spend management, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner “ Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites. Now positioned as a Leader in two Gartner Magic Quadrants citing the Source-to-Pay space. Gartner Inc., Gartner Inc.,

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

DoD developed a standard template for these reports earlier this year to ensure consistent evaluation criteria. GAO said IBM's claims that the solicitation's evaluation factors are unduly restrictive were not supported. GAO denied a pre-proposal protest by IBM over the terms of the solicitation for the estimated $5 billion contract.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

LLMs also promote consistency in application evaluation, removing potential bias, and provide scalability to handle large volumes of applications, even with surges in numbers like those seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proof of residency for three years, evaluated using a scoring system. import json import os import boto3 from boto3.dynamodb.conditions

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The court’s ruling forced GSA to rethink the solicitation for OASIS+ and bring price back as an evaluation factor at the main contract level. Ernst said she’s confident the bill will get traction this session of Congress both because it’s bipartisan and because it’s beneficial for large and small businesses alike.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We have released an update in November 2019 on the datasets collected on development projects, public tenders, and contracts for three major donor agencies: the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and EuropeAid.

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Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This pilot program could provide an opportunity for the DIB to become more directly involved in CMF operations and evaluations. Section 1533 of the House bill would require a comprehensive review by the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) of DoD’s readiness to conduct cyberspace operations. CMF Occupational Resiliency.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When Houser joined the Census Bureau in the fall of 2019, following security stints at the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the U.S. We’ve seen so many attacks where someone takes over an account, and then they run through a system.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 16, 2024

Compensation will always be an issue, but TRANSCOM has been a great partner and there are methods to take that into account. HomeSafe’s pricing was bid in 2019, and we’ve seen a lot of inflation in our industry. We’d be paid less than we were being paid in 2019, and then you add on all these costs, and there’s just not enough dollars.”

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released its annual bid protest report to the Congress for fiscal year 2023 on October 26, 2023 (B-158766). This compares with a two year average sustain rate of 9.71

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ivalua

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The Gartner report evaluated full-suite procure-to-pay solutions from 14 different software vendors across a broad set of criteria, placing Ivalua in the Leaders quadrant based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision. Ivalua was also positioned as a Leader in the preceding Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The Gartner report evaluated full-suite procure-to-pay solutions from 14 different software vendors across a broad set of criteria, placing Ivalua in the Leaders quadrant based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision. Ivalua was also positioned as a Leader in the preceding Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

In August 2019, it awarded CGI a 10-year, $222.9 It’s typically called out in the request for proposals that there will be a past performance, a technical assessment and evaluation of price and volume. Those are the three most common evaluation criteria,” he said. The Defense Logistics Agency also is implementing CON-IT.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The question disappointed healthcare contractors should ask is whether the agency acted unreasonably in its evaluation and selection of the awardee. If the answer is “yes”—or even “maybe”—healthcare companies may file a bid protest at the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) or the U.S. B-417836, 2020 CPD ¶ 47 ( Nov.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Upon assuming the ACIO-CS/CISO role in 2019, Sarah’s initial focus was on improving the Enterprise Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) Cybersecurity grade. While at ISA, he was recognized by his industry peers with the SANS ICS 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Over the past five years, the Government Accountability Office’s inaugural Innovation Lab director, Taka Ariga, treated the component as something of a startup organization. He pointed to the speed of the watchdog’s evaluations as an area, for example. Timing is right,” Ariga said of his departure. “We

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In July 2019, Lieutenant Colonel Pimentel returned to the Naval Postgraduate School after his selection for the Marine Corps Doctor of Philosophy Technical Program. Chan leads the P&L of private network business incorporating assets in IoT, RAN/core network, accountable for silicon and software as service revenue.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

GSA awarded COMET in 2019 to 12 companies. “We’ve 2023 The current COMET contractor said one big question they will be paying attention to as the acquisition continues to develop is how GSA will evaluate small businesses. Akima Data Management filed a complaint with the Government Accountability Office on Oct.

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FedInsider

AUGUST 7, 2024

Prior to joining Tenable in 2019, Edwards—a 30-year industry veteran—served as the Global Director of Education at the International Society of Automation (ISA). While at ISA, he was recognized by his industry peers with the SANS ICS 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award. Prior to ISA, Edwards was the longest-serving Director of the U.S.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 2, 2024

The SFSC held that under these circumstances, it did not need to take the alleged facts into account (para. The SFSC noted that in its set-aside action, Venezuela presented its own version of the facts and substituted its evaluation of the evidence for that of the tribunal. decision 4A_306/2019 of 25 March 2020, para.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 7, 2023

New Model for Monitoring State-Owned Enterprises Taking all these issues into account and the experience and knowledge we have gathered from the field, the authors of this post propose an alternative policy recommendation. DOI: [link] World Bank (2014), “SOE Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit”, World Bank, Washington, DC.

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ivalua

MARCH 13, 2019

Because the vast majority of supplier engagement is facilitated by technology platforms, the supplier experience needs to be positive from the first time they see a public solicitation, through account creation and onboarding. These experiences determine the perception they will work under during the rest of the opportunity.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Because it is likely that an agency may use a contract to procure these supplies, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) does not consider § 4023 an OTA statute. 4, 2019, 2019 CPD ¶ 120 at 2. This statute anticipates the use of a contract, at least in some circumstances, to procure an item. See Air Tractor, Inc.,

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FedInsider

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Upon assuming the ACIO-CS/CISO role in 2019, Sarah’s initial focus was on improving the Enterprise Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) Cybersecurity grade. Close Chief Security Officer, Delaware Dept.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The complexity of proving causation, as shown by research conducted by the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (“TCU ”) in 2019, was exemplified by the fact that 47% of construction projects in Brazil are stalled due to technical issues, which often result in judicial or arbitral disputes.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Choong highlighted that, as of September 2023, there have been four known ORFSA cases in Hong Kong, compared to the 87 third-party funding cases since the regime came into force in 2019. Consider the firm’s case portfolio : ORFSA arrangements should account for the possibility that some cases in a firm’s portfolio may be loss-making.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 4, 2024

An unsuccessful offeror filed a size protest, alleging that the prospective awardee had received significant contract awards from 2019 through 2023. Thus, the TET provided a “some confidence” rating for the prospective awardee under the small business participation evaluation factor. Stay tuned for round three.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

JANUARY 2, 2024

Note there is a separate rulemaking (DFARS Case 2019-D041) that will update the DFARS to align with the Proposed Rule and implement the requirements applicable to contractors. This means all DoD contractors and subcontractors must have a SPRS account and designated personnel who will be responsible for SPRS updates.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 22, 2024

433 (2019), the disappointed offeror was able to bring a suit in federal district court, which reviewed the prototype OT award under the APA as a “final agency action.” 1] The Government Accountability Office denied the protest. 24-160 (July 16, 2024). United States , 144 Fed.

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

Many companies are facing supply chain disruptions because they did not account for this, instead focusing on assessing suppliers individually. Unfortunately, digitization gaps are not going to be fixed in a matter of weeks, given the need to evaluate requirements, assess and contract with a vendor and then implement.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 11, 2024

DoD announced the CMMC Program in 2019 and introduced both its initial version (CMMC 1.0) A compliance strategy may evaluate what technical gaps and legal risks exist and how they will be addressed. and corresponding DFARS Clause 252.204-7021 under an Interim Rule in September 2020.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 29, 2024

Currently, SBA’s regulations on joint ventures provide that a procuring activity may not require a protégé firm to individually meet the same evaluation or responsibility criteria as that required of other offerors generally. Application of HUBZone Price Evaluation Preference (PEP). SBA’s Proposed Roll-out of New 13 C.F.R. 745 (2023).

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This symposium is an excellent opportunity for contracts and compliance professionals, Federal account executives, and other professionals to stay informed and ensure their organizations are prepared for current and future cybersecurity requirements from their Federal customers. Only 40 percent of non-VA hospitals received these ratings.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

An unsuccessful offeror filed a size protest, alleging that the prospective awardee had received significant contract awards from 2019 through 2023. Thus, the TET provided a “some confidence” rating for the prospective awardee under the small business participation evaluation factor.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 15, 2024

The Coalition welcomed Tom to the team in 2019, where he immediately enhanced our domain expertise through his strategic insights and comprehensive knowledge of procurement issues. He began with the Government Accountability Office before serving as Chief Counsel to the then-GSA Board of Contract Appeals. 24-160 (July 16, 2024).

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