Federal News Network

JULY 12, 2024

The BAA, however, is a price evaluation preference, which means if the price of a Chinese product is low enough, the federal government will buy that product. For large business offerors, the price preference added to non-domestic offers is 20%, and for small business offerors, it is 30%.

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Federal News Network

MAY 16, 2024

And we’ve been around since late 2019. Tom Temin And since 2019, how busy has the strike force been? Since 2019, we’ve opened more than 100 criminal investigations. The majority of federal government procurement is not a set and attacked by bid rigging, price fixing and fraud schemes. Dan Glad Absolutely.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, are trying to correct a misunderstanding of congressional intent when it comes to how and when agencies should consider price when reviewing proposals for contracts.

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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. Product information, pricing and availability is real-time as suppliers are engaged in the process by linking their sites to Ivalua.

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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. Product information, pricing and availability is real-time as suppliers are engaged in the process by linking their sites to Ivalua.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

JANUARY 31, 2024

Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government contractors. This is the third article in a multi-part series on the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) Cost Principles applicable to contracts with commercial organizations. 4] General Dynamics Corp.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 22, 2024

Building on an established partnership with stackable functionality LAUSD IT services already trusted Kokomo because of the work the EdTech company had done to create the district’s Incident System Tracking Accountability Report (iSTAR) and Los Angeles Schools Anonymous Reporting (LASAR) applications that launched in 2019.

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Whistleblower Network News

JULY 10, 2024

This allows the government to receive the benefit of any price concessions provided by drug manufacturers. Under Medicare Part D, sponsors must inform the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of any rebates or renumeration the plans received.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

Those measures build on 2019’s Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act. As scammers find more ways to circulate these messages, we must get ahead of it and make sure providers offer robocall blocking services as part of the base price.”

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Here is the timeline of the procurement: July 31, 2018 Navy awarded task order to CSG which specifically identified the delivery date as September 29, 2019. 8, 2019 Navy issues partial notice to proceed, no change to delivery date Nov. 8, 2019 Navy issues partial notice to proceed, no change to delivery date Nov.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The current system resulted from a redesign of the NHS supply chain that has been operational since 2019 [for details, see A Sanchez-Graells, ‘ Centralisation of procurement and supply chain management in the English NHS: some governance and compliance challenges ’ (2019) 70(1) NILQ 53-75.] When reporting progress against its £2.4

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Parts of it were fixed price and parts of it were cost-plus. And so when DOE you wanted to see their internal records, it sounds like the company was worried that they would see the DOE would see their records concerned with the fixed price, which is none of the government’s business. So in 2019, DOE did that with HPM.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 8, 2023

After years of planning, DoD released its final solicitation for GHC in 2019 and awarded the contract to another company, American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier Group (ARC) in 2020. It’s only the latest delay in what Defense officials have long believed will be the answer to the moving system’s perennial challenges.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

By 2019, the cloud supported SMEs that used £1.3 In 2019, ChileCompra redesigned how to buy computers, data services, and software development. ChileCompra expected savings of 10 percent : As of 2021, the new framework led to average savings of 28 percent compared to market prices. By 2015, there was a £4 billion ($5.09

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 16, 2024

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.” As an example, prior to the pandemic, one of our households goods trailers cost about $65,000.

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Contract Transportation Transportation Price 119

ivalua

AUGUST 2, 2019

With Gartner’s recent release of their 2019 Magic Quadrant for P2P Suites , it seems a good time to reflect on what truly drives success. Ivalua also recently was awarded the best P2P Specialist Provider by an independent panel of industry veterans at the recent 2019 World Procurement Awards. The Times They are a Changin.

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GovLoop

JULY 27, 2023

In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds. The team cut the online prices $5.00 The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages. below those of a visit to a branch, and online volume shot up,” the institute found.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 12, 2024

The BAA, however, is a price evaluation preference, which means if the price of a Chinese product is low enough, the federal government will buy that product. For large business offerors the price preference added to non-domestic offers is 20%, and for small business offerors it is 30%.

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

These were: Unreasonable technical evaluation Flawed selection decision Unreasonable cost or price evaluation The GAO also noted that a significant number of protests it received did not reach a decision on the merits because agencies voluntarily took corrective action rather than defend the protest on the merits.

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Sustainability Bidding Evaluation Government Contracts 52

Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 2, 2024

In the underlying investment treaty arbitration, Clorox sought compensation for the alleged expropriation and unfair treatment of its investment by Venezuela, through the enactment of price controls and currency exchange restrictions, and the nationalization of its assets. decision 4A_306/2019 of 25 March 2020, para.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

and Singapore 2) For example, under the Payment Services Act 2019 of Singapore , cryptocurrencies are considered digital payment tokens regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In determining the value of the bitcoins, the tribunal referred to the bitcoin price provided on the Okcoin website.

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ivalua

MARCH 27, 2019

Ivalua’s suite will enable the strengthening of internal collaboration between the various Group Procurement entities around the world by industrializing and improving reliability of the Chemicals Price List Publication processes. World-renowned with a revenue of €4.5

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Icelandic Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs launched an ambitious initiative to accelerate the digital transformation of public services in Iceland in 2019. Learn more about Iceland’s digital transformation journey in this AWS Institute video series.

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GovSpend

APRIL 29, 2024

In this post, I will summarize our recommendations, particularly when it comes to growing your federal contract business: market research, anticipating future opportunities, devising effective pricing strategies, and implementing targeted marketing efforts.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

30, 2026, according to a 2020 memo from Kim Herring, the then-acting principal director of the Office of Defense Contract and Pricing. In August 2019, it awarded CGI a 10-year, $222.9 Like any technology system built 30 years ago, it has run its course and DoD is turning SPS off by Sept.

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Mercell

APRIL 2, 2019

I left with a great feeling and followed-up with an email confirming our services and pricing. There is competition in this market, and we are ready to be compared to any competitor in both functionality and price. April 2nd, 2019 The post Is e-Procurement Free For Buyers? Written by Jan Siderius, President, Negometrix Inc.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Just looking at the numbers, between 2019 and 2023, the protester lost between 69% to 87% of the merits based decisions. 11] GAO also reinforced the requirements to document the evaluation of offerors’ proposed prices [12] and ensure that all elements of the price are included and are the correct figures. [13]

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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 31, 2022

This is because an increase in taxes, directly affects the price, which in turn makes tobacco products less affordable. Ample evidence has shown that on average, a 10% price increase will reduce consumption by 5% in low- and middle-income countries, and by about 4% in high-income countries [1]. is explained by taxes on tobacco.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

Over our last strategy from 2019-2023, we estimate that our work had an indirect positive impact on an estimated 209 million lives and US$116 billion dollars of public spending. Our bold new target firmly centers our work on this theme for the next six years. Open contracting has been the gift that keeps giving.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 89

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. A step towards this is the establishment of success fee pricing committees within law firms. Although the ORFSA regime is still in its early days, Ms.

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Insurance Price Risk Management Accountability 52

ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

Redwood City, CA March 14, 2019 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that the State of Maryland has selected its Source-to-Pay platform to power a new statewide e-procurement system, eMaryland Marketplace Advantage.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

2019) (protest against Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) contract award for beneficiary oversight and claim review services sustained because agency failed to evaluate cost realism, level of effort, and relevance of past performance as required by the solicitation). B-417836, 2020 CPD ¶ 47 ( Nov. In Ohio KePRO, Inc. ,

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

GSA awarded COMET in 2019 to 12 companies. “We’ve This one also is focused on amendment nine, but is around changes GSA made to the proposal for cost and price, changes to the evaluation methodology and the experience of the vendors. Absolute Strategic Technologies filed a second protest around Polaris on Nov.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The program is still an ordering contracting officer’s best friend, as it enables rapid fulfillment of mission needs at fair and reasonable prices.  He served as a permanent member of the Technology Modernization Fund board from inception in March 2018 until October 2019.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 12, 2024

During the formation of the OASIS program, Todd invented and successfully executed the “Highest Technically Rated with Fair and Reasonable Pricing” source selection methodology, including a first-of-its-kind objective point-based proposal self-scoring worksheet.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 12, 2024

The government awarded the design and construction contract in 2019. The contractor also alleged that the government did not act in good faith by directing the contractor “to proceed with the Project as if the Project were immune to the pandemic’s impacts,” instead of collaborating to address them.

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ivalua

MARCH 3, 2020

This is actually one of the main recommendations produced by Forrester in its Q1 2019 survey about the keys to a successful procurement transformation. This kind of mindset must be instilled by the Chief Procurement Officer himself even though business curiosity remains everyone’s duty.

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