ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Massy, France 18 March , 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, and CKS BeNeLux today announced that Punch Powertrain has successfully deployed Ivalua’s platform to support the digital transformation of the strategic sourcing process.

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Strategic Sourcing E-auction Automotive Total Cost of Ownership 98

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. Mr. James has been recognized as an industry leader through awards and dual nominee to “2021 Fedscoop 50” Tech Champion of the year and Federal Leadership. Before joining SNG, he hosted “Government Matters” on Washington, DC’s ABC 7 from 2016 to 2021.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2022

Redwood City, CA – April 1st, 2022 – Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that it has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice vendor in the March 2022 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Procure-to-Pay Suites report. About Gartner Peer Insights. Lumina Communications for Ivalua. 212-239-8594. ivalua.com .

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

How the School of Applied Research in Public Procurement trained community leaders to dig into government contracting issues in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It inspired the creation of a free self-guided e-course on Open Contracting Basics too.

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ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Massy, France 18 March , 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, and CKS BeNeLux today announced that Punch Powertrain has successfully deployed Ivalua’s platform to support the digital transformation of the strategic sourcing process. About Ivalua. Learn more at www.ivalua.com.

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Strategic Sourcing E-auction Automotive E-procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We received an 86 out of 100, returning to the record high score we received in 2021 during our intensive COVID-19 response and recovery support. When we asked which issue areas are most important to you, we saw a deep alignment with our own increased investment in anticorruption, sustainability, and electronic procurement.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 6, 2023

Public procurement can shape our world. On 15-16 June, together with the governments of Albania, Italy and the Netherlands, we held a conference on Open and Sustainable Procurement in Europe for about 100 procurement leaders from 25 European countries. There were many, many more great examples to share.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

Public Procurement: Building Business Cases and Driving Momentum. For the Government, supplier diversity programs are something procurement professionals in the United States (US) have accepted as a key element to their procurement success. Agile Procurement in Canada. Social Procurement Framework in European Union.

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NIH NITAAC

AUGUST 2, 2022

The awards recognize excellence in sustainable procurement of EPEAT-registered products. In 2021, our products empowered the federal government to realize 3,681,150 kilowatt hours of energy savings. From e-GOS you can view standard configurations and prices on product offerings from our Contract Holders.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Redwood, CA, 20th December 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that Canada’s largest co-operative, Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), has gone live with its source-to-contract solution which includes a seamless integration to TealBook, the leading supplier data foundation.

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Supplier Integrity Integration Retail 52

ivalua

MARCH 11, 2021

Redwood City, CA March 11, 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that the Virginia Department of General Services (DGS) has awarded a contract to CGI, which is using the Ivalua platform as the technology to support the transformation of the Commonwealth’s eVA program.

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Eprocurement Procurement E-procurement Purchasing 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Challenge : The City of Des Moines in Iowa wanted to leverage procurement to improve equity and sustainability, but knew its current procurement processes and tools were insufficient. City employees are now able to collaborate on procurement more efficiently, and better plan and track their aspirations around equity and sustainability.

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ivalua

MAY 23, 2022

Third place was awarded to the Bengs / e-Attestations team for their Carbonator solution. The community of partners on the Ivalua platform currently consists of over 1200 certified consultants across the globe, having grown by 56% in 2021. The PwC / Ivalua team was awarded first place for their Sustainability Tracker. About Ivalua.

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Innovation Supply Chain Procurement E-procurement 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 15, 2024

Celebrating a Dedicated Procurement Leader: Wishing Tom Sisti a Happy Retirement! It is with mixed emotions that The Coalition for Government Procurement announces the retirement of Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Tom Sisti. Furthermore, he worked as Procurement Counsel detailed to the U.S.

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E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement Price 52

SmallGovCon

JANUARY 18, 2024

Some good takeaways are below: Alan E. CBCA continued, clarifying that a “suretyship arrangement is not a contract for the procurement of good or services” and would not be seen as a procurement contract under CDA. Fricke Memorials, Inc. Department of Veterans Affairs , CBCA 7352, et al.

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. He served as founding host of Scoop News Group’s “Daily Scoop Podcast,” and as SNG’s Vice President of Multimedia Content, from August 2021 through December 2022. Before joining SNG, he hosted “Government Matters” on Washington, DC’s ABC 7 from 2016 to 2021.

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Engineering Data Innovation Transportation 52

FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 50 minutes equals 1 CPE. She is a recipient of the 2022 Samuel J. Roberts worked as a Functional Analyst Lead for contract writing at CACI, Inc.

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Data Logistics Management Sustainability 59

Government Contracts & Investigations

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Section 202 of the FASCSA established the FASC, authorizing the Council to make recommendations for orders that would require the removal of specified articles from government information systems (“removal orders”), or the exclusion of sources or covered materials from procurement actions as a whole (“exclusion orders”).

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

requested that the Palestinian Authority be ordered to procure licenses for the operation of the casino and hotel. ’s request, the Ecuadorian court ruled on 4 February 2021 that the block should be removed, and a new birth certificate issued for A. and the Palestinian authority on one side, and a Liechtenstein company (B.)

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Capacity E-procurement Demand Participation 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Correspondingly, it also will increase competition and access to commercial services, solutions, and products by eliminating the significant variations in the application of the key MAS procurement rules across the program, all to the benefits of customer agencies, GSA, and industry partners.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 23, 2024

The substantial award at issue is of a particularly high value and fraud and corruption elements arise in both the procurement of the underlying contracts and also the awards themselves. Moreover, the rarity of successful challenges under Section 68 of the EAA amplifies the importance of this judgment.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

The conference begins with remarks from Christine Harada , Senior Advisor in OMB’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), on the governmentwide Better Contracting Initiative , a four-pronged initiative to ensure that the Federal Government receives optimal terms and prices when purchasing goods and services.

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Supply Chain E-procurement Thresholds Procurement 52

Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Inflation is generally down from 2021, but is still high in too many places, and is expected to persist in 2023. ” [5] Iron ore prices are down from 2021, but still above 2015-2019 averages. “In percent from June 2021 to June 2022. .” percent from June 2021 to June 2022. Wages and salaries rose 5.7

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Last week in Rome, we brought together over 100 leaders from 26 European governments , EU institutions, global organizations like the World Bank, OECD, EBRD, and UNOPS, civil society, and the private sector for the 3rd International Open and Sustainable Public Procurement Conference 2024. This trend started long before Covid.

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Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Transparency 60

ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

Procurement has remained an afterthought at most organizations when the topic shifts to growing revenue. Innovative procurement leaders are positioning the function to be a driver of growth and thereby further elevating the function’s status. Procurement is notoriously bad at marketing itself, to its own disservice.

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Procurement Supplier Price Innovation 52

Inside Government Contracts

JANUARY 9, 2024

and DoD sourcing and manufacturing, but Congress’s focus on increasing supply chain visibility could also herald new rounds of compliance and reporting requirements attached to federal procurements. The key provisions in the law include: Multi-year procurement authority. Government’s efforts to on-shore and friend-shore U.S.

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Supply Chain Manufacturing E-procurement Procurement 189

Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In addition to the bright-line violation of the ASO exception, this language is modeled on the Architect-Engineering (A&E) Service acquisition process. [7] 7] In the A&E process, all best suited submissions are “selected” and ranked. 8] The issue with utilizing the A&E-like process in the FAR 8.4 Jan 2021). [5]

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Innovation Negotiation Price E-procurement 52

Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 29, 2024

128.401(e)) Programs. e) provide the following: For a single award small business contract or any unrestricted contract, a concern that recertified as other than small or other than the required small business program status: Remains eligible to receive options and May receive orders or agreements issued. 121.104), HUBZone (13 C.F.R.

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NIH NITAAC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In 2021, 28% of all total federal fiscal year spending obligations were spent in the fourth quarter. Designed for Efficiency and Speed GWACs were established by the Clinger Cohen Act as a mechanism to streamline the information technology (IT) procurement process. Direct awards are always quick and easy using NITAAC’s e-GOS.

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E-procurement Budget Purchasing Category Management 52

NIH NITAAC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In 2021, 28% of all total federal fiscal year spending obligations were spent in the fourth quarter. Designed for Efficiency and Speed GWACs were established by the Clinger Cohen Act as a mechanism to streamline the information technology (IT) procurement process. Direct awards are always quick and easy using NITAAC’s e-GOS.

E-procurement 52

E-procurement Budget Purchasing Category Management 52

ivalua

JUNE 10, 2021

Paris, June 10, 2021 – Ivalua, a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions , announced a new capability to provide employees access to Amazon Business directly and seamlessly from within the Ivalua platform, going beyond the traditional PunchOut. Tail spend has always been difficult to control by procurement teams.

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Procurement Notes

JUNE 15, 2021

13] However, to be clear, the predicate for this being the case is that the procurement must rely upon the debriefing provisions of FAR Subpart 15.5—such 15] Not For All Procurements Just as important as knowing how to get a required debriefing is discerning what is not a required debriefing. 2305(b)(6)(A) and 41 U.S.C.

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Bidding E-procurement Procurement Negotiation 40

Procurement Notes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Jay Blindauer On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced his new plan to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic. 105 agencies, expressly excluding GAO), [9] the GovEmployee Order requires the inter-agency Safer Federal Workforce Task Force to supply guidance no later than September 16, 2021. [10] Emphasis on the word some. 102(4)(B). .

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Introduction You’ve probably read your share of legal blogs about the September 9, 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate for contractors and subcontractors. This compliance headache is shared by procuring Agencies, prime contractors, subcontractors, and supply chain vendors, among others. If that is your preference, stop reading.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. In November 2016, Kimberly accepted the position as Director of the EPA’s Office of Acquisition Solutions (OAS), and the Agency’s Senior Procurement Executive (SPE).

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

FAR & Beyond: Thoughts on “What is Fair and Reasonable? Federal Acquisition Policy and Procedure (PAP) 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing , sets forth “comprehensive guidance regarding the evaluation of pricing throughout the life of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program contract.” Emphasis added.) See Section 2.

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Supply Chain Price Contract E-procurement 52

University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the relatively recent developments in the post-Brexit review of UK public procurement law is the February 2021 proposal for the replacement of the current rules on the commissioning of healthcare services for the purposes of the English NHS (for background, you can watch here ), with a new provider selection regime (‘the proposal’).

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Tender E-procurement Procurement Transparency 52