GovLoop

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The Federal Flexible Spending Account Program (FSAFEDS), administered by HealthEquity, Inc., FSAFEDS provides three account options to support the needs of employees and their families. All three work by automatically deducting money from each paycheck — before payroll taxes —and putting it into an account.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

A recent report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) whistleblowers continue to face high rates of retaliation. At OAWP, the majority of whistleblower settlements and complaints addressed in FY 2022-23 stemmed from the Veterans Health Administration.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This is attributable to December 2022 legislation that mandated that medical device manufacturers submit to FDA their plans to identify and address cybersecurity vulnerabilities for any new medical device that were introduced to consumers starting in March 2023.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Ken Hofgesang is the Vice President, HHS Account Manager at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) since September 2022. Ken Hofgesang introduces keynote speaker RDML Tracy Farrill in the Potomac Officers Club-hosted 2023 Healthcare Summit. Reserve your slot now! Who is Ken Hofgesang?

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ivalua

APRIL 7, 2022

Leader Forrester Supplier Value Management Platforms, Q1 2022. Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice 2022 . Chief Product Officer, Pascal Bensoussan , shared the best way forward for 2022 with the most innovative trends that are shaping the future. The post 2022 Ivalua NOW Paris Recap! Ivalua + Booking.com.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 26, 2024

The awards rendered in 2022-2023 have remained consistent, with all 19 publicly available awards rendered in favor of the investor stipulating interest payments. The State’s sovereign cost of debt approach has been followed in 31% of the awards rendered in 2022-2023 (e.g. (See Article 38, Commentary 1). Serbia , para. Michael Antony v.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Government Accountability Office is recommending changes to how the government measures implementation of a decades-old cybersecurity law as agency information security programs continue to be “mostly ineffective.” As a result, the GAO made two recommendations for the Office of Management and Budget related to improving the metrics.

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GovCon & Trade

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

On October 26, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) sent its annual bid protest report to Congress, which reflected a dramatic increase in protests filed following four straight years of decline. From 2019 to 2022, the sustain rate hovered around 13-15%. Increase in the sustain rate. In FY 2023, the sustain rate increased to 31%.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In FY24, they accounted for 59.87% ($464.2 Combined, these four categories account for over 54% of all federal contract awards. billion was awarded through these vehicles, accounting for more than 9.5% Top Agencies It is no surprise that defense agencies consistently rank among the top 15 federal agencies. In FY24, $74.8

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Oles Morrison

AUGUST 24, 2022

Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker is beyond thrilled at the success of our government contracts practice group Bid Protest Webinar 2022. The post “Winning Your Bid Protest 2022” Webinar Hosted By Howard Roth and Jedidiah Blake A Big Success! appeared first on Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker LLP.

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Whistleblower Network News

MAY 24, 2024

Department of Justice in September of 2022. In September 2022, the DOJ announced that it had reached a $625,000 settlement with Instec and its owner to settle the whistleblower’s allegations. “I The BAA creates a preference for domestic products when the government purchases supplies. In 2020, a former employee of Instec Inc.

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FedScoop

MARCH 15, 2024

The ever-increasing backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests for federal agencies is due in part to technological issues facing the workers charged with fulfilling them, a new Government Accountability Office report found. said in a statement.

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FedScoop

APRIL 17, 2024

“But in the meantime, we will continue to have human interaction and expert account managers to help.” During the same hearing, Werfel said that from 2010 to 2022, Congress clawed back the IRS’s budget by 25%, a fact he mentioned again at Wednesday’s event. During the ACT-IAC/DCI CX Summit in Arlington, Va.,

Accountability 119

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FedScoop

APRIL 26, 2024

A handful of security deficiencies in IRS information systems elevate the tax agency’s risk of inaccuracies in financial statements, the Government Accountability Office said Thursday.

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FedScoop

MARCH 19, 2024

The Internal Revenue Service needs to pick up the pace on finalizing its IT modernization plans or risk falling short of the transformational potential it’s been afforded by a multibillion-dollar funding infusion, according to a new Government Accountability Office report. billion on IT investments in fiscal year 2022 and $4.4

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 14, 2024

According to the Government Accountability Office, the Social Security Administration has spent roughly $62 million on the service but has taken in just $25 million in user fees, putting it off pace to meet the law’s requirement to fully recover the service’s total cost by the end of fiscal year 2027.

Accountability 115

Accountability Electronics Networking Data 115

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As of this July, all 24 Chief Financial Officers Act agencies completed an OMB requirement in its Cloud Smart strategy to ensure that CIOs oversee modernization efforts, according to the Government Accountability Office. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.,

Procurement 114

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Federal News Network

JULY 24, 2024

Anytime that you have support for additional protest review, whether the court reaffirms or opens the door to a new jurisdiction, it will result in more transparency, accountability and oversight, even if it’s just affirming where we understood jurisdiction to stand already.” In fiscal 2022, the department took about 4,400 actions worth $10.7

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In another report scrutinizing the VA’s management of IT systems, VA OIG found a weakness in controls including configuration management, assessment, authorization and monitoring, which collectively accounted for 23 incidents and a total of 80 hours and 20 minutes of disruption for the system.

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Electronics Risk Management Data Management 121

American City & Country

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The 2024 presidential election is in two weeks, and early and absentee voting is already well under way for many states in an election that, by all accounts, promises to be a close race. This past week, TargetSmart, a Washington D.C.-based have cast the largest number of early and absentee ballots votes so far.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 26, 2024

When considering the implementation of emerging technologies, federal agencies should document changes in statutes, provide the public with information about their efforts and establish clear communication with Congress and other relevant stakeholders, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday.

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Transportation Transportation Accountability Innovation 111

FedScoop

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The reporting that agencies are required by a 2018 law to do on various website and digital services benchmarks is often incomplete and inconsistent, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

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Transportation Transportation Accountability Education 115

Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For example, “TD Bank facilitated over $400 million in transactions for Da Ying Sze (Sze), who pled guilty to money laundering in 2022 for his role in conspiring to hide proceeds of narcotics trafficking,” according to FinCEN. The vast majority of financial institutions have partnered with FinCEN to protect the integrity of the U.S.

Corruption 121

Corruption Networking Finance Accountability 121

Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 7, 2024

372-2021-CCL, 13 December 2022 Marianella Ventura Silva, Centro de Arbitraje, CCL, ITA Reporter for the CCL The arbitral tribunal dismissed the objection of lack of competence filed by the SEDAPAL. PI7947-22, 05 September 2022 Elizaveta Mikaelyan, RAC, ITA Reporter for the RAC A dispute from a contract for the supply of perishable goods.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

times the country’s estimated GDP in 2022. By July 2022, they had unveiled 10 principles for Ukraine’s reconstruction and modernization at the first Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in Lugano , Switzerland. A recent assessment calculates the physical damage from the first year of the war at over $135 billion.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

billion in federal contracts in fiscal 2023, with the Defense Department being the company’s biggest customer, accounting for more than $653 million, according to USAspending.gov. Additionally, court documents show two other recent allegations of False Claims Act violations that DoJ decided not to pursue. Carahsoft won more than $1.4

Collusion 144

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Federal News Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The awards come at more and more agencies are using the initial three platforms, though data shows Amazon Business received the vast majority of the orders, accounting for 96% of all orders in fiscal 2022, according to an August 2023 report from the Government Accountability Office.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 20, 2025

We started discussing the Act back in early 2023 after it was passed in late 2022, and I outlined my predictions at the Court of Federal Claims judicial conference. The OCI Statute The Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act was made effective on December 27, 2022.

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Influencing Contract Consulting Internal Control 105

Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 11, 2024

“Conforming the management of the Fund to existing successful whistleblower laws is the single most important reform the Department can undertake to incentivize whistleblowers, deter frauds, and enhance accountability,” writes Kohn. Kohn explains that discretionary award programs have consistently failed.

Import 112

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FedScoop

APRIL 15, 2024

But, even though ICE says it has received no new requests for the use of commercial telemetry services since December 2022, the agency has filed a privacy impact assessment with the Department of Homeland Security’s privacy office for review.

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Data Impact Assessment Purchasing Electronics 145

FedScoop

JANUARY 25, 2024

The Government Accountability Office and the National Taxpayer Advocate have previously made calls to reduce paper returns and improve the processing of such returns. The 2D barcode method, which would eliminate the agency’s current manual transcription process, has been used by several state tax agencies , some for 20-plus years.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 5, 2024

The new strategy is an omnibus of five primary strategies—Education, Public Accountability, Voice, Enforcement, and Incentives—with 60 sub-strategies aimed at cracking down on corruption across sectors and shoring up public trust in the government. The country enjoyed comparatively marginal improvements, rising to 61st in 2022 and 57 in 2023.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is a major win for whistleblowers and thus a huge win for corporate accountability,” said leading whistleblower attorney David Colapinto , a founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto (KKC). “A However, in 2022, 2nd U.S.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

A High-Level View According to the 2022 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, the global cyber workforce has reached 4.7 Government Accountability Office notes that its auditors have made 712 recommendations to federal agencies since 2010, 21% of which have not been implemented. million workers, but that still leaves 3.4

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Supply Chain Media Government Government 98

FedScoop

JUNE 11, 2024

Starting this week, the General Services Administration is collecting common forms for new software contracts from providers and contractors in accordance with a 2022 Office of Management and Budget memo regarding software supply chain security.

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Supply Chain Manufacturing Budget Accountability 108

GovSpend

JUNE 20, 2024

Were you aware that in FY 23, a substantial $6.23B, accounting for 8% of total federal contracts, was allocated to Small Business Innovation Research (SBIRs) and Small Business Technology Transfers (STTRs), benefiting 3,230 businesses ? Over the years, we’ve witnessed a 31% increase in spending on SBIRs & STTRs, rising from $4.7B

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Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Our order holds SAP accountable for misconduct that spanned seven jurisdictions and persisted for several years and serves as a stark reminder of the need for global companies to be attuned to both the risks of their business and the need to maintain adequate entity-level controls over all their subsidiaries,” said Charles E.

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