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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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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Inside Government Contracts

JANUARY 16, 2024

Thus, taking into account both merits decisions and dismissals, it appears that contractors received some type of relief in roughly 78% of appeals resolved in FY 2023 (21 merits decisions plus 125 voluntary dismissals, out of 185 appeals resolved). Thus, contractors had an effective success rate of 21% on the merits for FY 2022.

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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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ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 12, 2024

Anna Sever recently took on the role of president at business services provider Conduent, according to her LinkedIn account. In April 2022, she took on the position of CEO on an interim basis […]

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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

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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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.

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GovCon Wire

JULY 26, 2024

Constantino Malatesta, chief accounting officer and vice president of the Controller Office since 2022, will take over Branco’s role in the interim while a permanent successor is sought,

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Those risks make it “imperative that practitioners understand their roles and responsibilities and are held accountable for managing information security risk,” the guide states. Risks from data usage cover everything from processing errors and data accountability to algorithmic bias and misinterpretation of data. “It

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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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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Matthew Evon , director of finance at Iron EagleX since July 2022, has been named vice president of financial planning and analysis at the Tampa, Florida-based veteran-owned defense contractor.

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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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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.,

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Government Accountability Office recently released a new strategic plan that will guide efforts from 2022 to 2027 as the agency aids federal operations and addresses the most critical issues facing the nation’s government and society as a whole.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 21, 2024

billion in revenues in 2023 — a 13% increase over 2022. Mission Technologies now accounts for nearly 25% of HII’s revenues. Fred Avila Vice President of Pricing Solutions, HII Mission Technologies Fred Avila is the vice president of pricing solutions at HII’s Mission Technologies division, which reported $2.7

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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

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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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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Government Accountability Office revealed in a Tuesday report that federal agencies reported over 1,000 artificial intelligence uses in the 2022 fiscal year, but warned that agencies weren't fully complying with requirements for the evolving technology.

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Did you know that as of March 2022, there were 358,575 Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) operating in Scotland? SMEs also accounted for 99.4% SMEs provided an estimated 1.2 million jobs, which was 55.9% of private sector employment. of all private sector businesses and 40.2% of private sector turnover.

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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.,

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Between 2021 and 2022, the rejection rate of complaints submitted by citizens has halved from 78% in 2021 to 39% in 2022, cases resolved by auditing authorities have increased from 53% to 63%, and response times are faster, taking 262 days down from 338 days in 2021. “We want to hold government accountable.

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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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Federal News Network

MARCH 15, 2024

The Government Accountability Office found that the median DoD-wide award lead times decreased by more than 20%, from 41 days in 2019 to 32 days in 2022. For example, the award time on orders valued over $50 million increased by 70 days in the last four years.

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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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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 was a 22% increase compared to FY 2022. The GAO sustain rate increased substantially from 13 percent in FY 2022 to 31 percent in FY 2023.

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FedScoop

MAY 29, 2024

But they also noted that the Office of Management and Budget required agencies to designate CAIOs at the executive level in an effort to improve accountability for AI issues. Singleton replaced Mek as the department’s top AI official in March 2022.

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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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