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 ? to the SBIR program if their extramural research and development budgets exceed $100M.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

UCMM has proven invaluable when talking about cyber investments not just with IT experts, but with chief financial officers, budget examiners and lawmakers, he added. DHS highlighted UCMM in its “Integrated Strategy for High-Risk Management,” a biannual update to the Government Accountability Office. OK, we got $5.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For example, Fiscal Year 2023 runs from October 1, 2022, through September 30, 3023. The Government is now pressed to use up the remainder of its budget. This is the annual timeframe that companies and governments use for both budgeting and financial reporting. What’s the Fiscal Year Budget for 2023? The budget is $5.8

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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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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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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. When we search large volumes of data, we receive tons of records back that are potentially relevant.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 26, 2024

million awarded in FY 2023 more than doubles the $37 million awarded in FY 2022. Furthermore, the total amount of awards issued fell from 132 in FY 2022 to 121 in FY 2023. The figure still falls short of the $312 million awarded in FY 2018, however. million. “The The time taken to process mandatory awards is up to an average of 11.29

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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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Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Health care and care for dependents take more out of some household budgets than shelter. Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) allow them to set aside money to pay for care in pre-tax dollars. For federal employees in participating agencies, the Federal Flexible Spending Account Program ( FSAFEDS ) is already an available benefit.

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Accountability Participation Utilities Budget 59

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

FEMA Device Reports Download Notably, in February 2022, the Federal CIO Council released the final version of its guidance for international travel and government devices. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Office of Management and Budget both declined to comment and directed FedScoop to FEMA.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Since signing on as city manager for fast-growing Hutto in 2022, Earp has leveraged his passions for leadership, finance and education to help reshape the city’s operations with an emphasis on collaboration. Earp attends a Block Party Bash in Hutto, where he’s served as city manager since 2022. God’s hand was moving,” Earp says.

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Budget Leadership Education Management 52

BLP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Throughout his years of experience, he has led the legal advice to different government institutions in administrative contracting processes and state procurement, transparency and accountability, administrative sanctioning procedure; as well as judicial processes in different matters such as Civil, Contentious Administrative, Labor and Criminal.

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Public Procurement Export Procurement Collaboration 52

Federal News Network

MAY 10, 2024

Only about 50 programs using software acquisition pathway so far According to the Government Accountability Office, there are only about 50 programs across DoD using the software pathway. Congress mandated the standup of that new software cadre in the 2022 Defense authorization bill.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

According to IBM’s annual data breach report, 83 percent of organizations experienced more than one data breach in 2022. Between 2016 – 2022, US K-12 schools experienced 1,619 publicly disclosed cyberattacks, with 80 percent of school IT professionals reporting a ransomware attack in 2022. Learn more about the AWS CIC program.

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Innovation Data Education Evaluation 78

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Governments worldwide dedicate a significant portion of their IT budget to maintaining legacy technology systems. The UK government’s Roadmap for digital and data 2022-2025 acknowledges the challenge that legacy IT poses. This can pose security and operational continuity challenges and governments seek to address this challenge.

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Government Government IT Leadership 64

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

Additionally, on March 28, 2024 the Office of Management and Budget released the final guidance on Memorandum M-24-10, Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of AI as we address here. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has considered this bill and voted on a markup.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 8, 2024

The technology’s potential to enhance the precision of economic forecasts, optimize budget allocations, and streamline tax administration is immense. Total Venture Capital Investment in Artificial Intelligence from 2012 to 2022 in LAC5 (USD billions) Source: Chart elaborated by the authors using data from OECD AI Policy Observatory.

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Transparency Data Efficiency Capacity 64

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

Introductory course The School of Applied Research in Public Procurement sought to develop participants’ skills in monitoring, research, policy analysis, and promoting public procurement reforms and open contracting in Central Asia, with a vision to improve transparency, accountability and efficiency in the use of public funds.

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Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Participation 52

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM). of GDP, according to FISLAC calculations.

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Public Procurement Procurement Strategic Planning Balance 52

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to current best practices , between 5-7 percent of a company’s IT budget should be spent on cybersecurity. percent of their IT budgets in 2022. First, they set up a landing zone , a scalable, secure multi-account AWS environment. In Germany, hospitals only invested about 2.2

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Consulting Balance Data Management 78

Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This green fiscal agenda was subject of discussions during the Platform’s technical dialogues and meetings since the Platform’s launching in August 2022. Recently this instrument has been successfully applied in Belize (2021), Barbados (2022) and Ecuador (2023), with active IDB participation in the last two cases.

Finance 52

Finance Sustainability Price Budget 52

Import and Trade Remedies

JULY 25, 2024

The remission order was repealed as of May 7, 2022, and accordingly importers were permitted to claim relief within two years of the date of importation of eligible goods, so until May 6, 2024 for goods imported on May 6, 2022. Importers are obligated to record GST rates or the applicable exemption code in Field No.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Department of the Navy is putting its contractors on notice to deliver ships, aircraft and submarines on time and on budget. The fiscal 2022 defense bill required the Pentagon to submit a report laying out the details of implementation. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro had a few choice words for contractors.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In spring 2022, the National Association of Counties (NACo) partnered with SecurityScorecard, a cybersecurity ratings company, to help county governments monitor and improve cybersecurity risk. An interview with Rita Reynolds, CIO, National Association of Counties. It’s not every year. Where and how do you provide data?

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GovLoop

MAY 17, 2023

In spring 2022, the National Association of Counties (NACo) partnered with SecurityScorecard, a cybersecurity ratings company, to help county governments monitor and improve cybersecurity risk. Such assessments were not really necessary as recently as 15 years ago, said Rita Reynolds, NACo’s CIO, but the landscape is totally different today.

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Insurance Participation Demand Budget 52

Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On January 25, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo to Chief Acquisition Officers and Senior Procurement Executives that encourages procuring agencies to apply the small business rule of two to orders under multiple-award contracts (MACs). Is there an actual need for the policy?

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Participation Contract Price Procurement 59

GovSpend

JANUARY 4, 2023

In FY 22, Federal Contract Awards accounted for $690.85B, or a little more than 11% of the total outlay, and is the largest amount that the federal government has awarded in terms of contracts (more than the $686B that was awarded in FY 20, during the pandemic). In terms of contracts awarded as small business contracts,22.8%

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GovSpend

JANUARY 4, 2023

In FY 22, Federal Contract Awards accounted for $690.85B, or a little more than 11% of the total outlay, and is the largest amount that the federal government has awarded in terms of contracts (more than the $686B that was awarded in FY 20, during the pandemic). In terms of contracts awarded as small business contracts,22.8%

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Contract Manufacturing Engineering Logistics 52

Federal News Network

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Beyond the annual bid protest report to Congress from the Government Accountability Office, agencies track few other outcomes from protests. They pay a lot of money for the protest process in terms of what comes out of salaries and budget and time to take delivering products and services to their customers internally.

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Data Bidding Innovation Procurement 97

Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since issuing its first award in 2007 through fiscal year 2022, the IRS has paid $1.1 The reforms in the bill include the imposition of interest on delayed awards, the removal of budget sequestration for whistleblower awards, the ending of double taxation of attorney fees and the institution of de novo review in award case appeals.

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Budget Accountability Networking Import 79

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, as HolonIQ reports in its 2024 Global Education Outlook , funding sources slowed across the board in 2023, dropping 59% from 2022 levels. At AWS, we believe that optimizing IT costs (including cloud) helps unlock budget to invest in more innovation.

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Price Demand Education Efficiency 75

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

CISA) The Veterans Affairs Department's supply chain modernization efforts get a big win at the Government Accountability Office. Experts told House lawmakers that the department’s Replicator program needs agile acquisition and budgeting practices. Phishing: What’s in a name?

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

While it’s too early to see system-wide changes, open data analyzed by OCP shows signs that participation by smaller businesses is increasing: from July 2022 to July 2023, the share of contracts awarded to MSMEs rose by 1.7%, the share of MSME bids increased by 1.9%, the share of unique MSME bidders grew by 1.4%

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Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 61

FedScoop

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget is getting close to finalizing long-awaited data guidance required by a 2019 law that mandates the machine-readability of federal information, two White House officials with direct knowledge of that work confirmed to FedScoop.

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Data Inventory Budget Transparency 100

Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

Jay Blindauer The bond yield curve inverted in October 2022. [1] 22] Plainly, approximately (22) months after October 2022 is on or about August to September 2024. in February 2022, but still above the 2% target. [32] in February 2022, but still above the 2% target. [32] At least it has every time since 1968. [2]

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Government Contracts Government Government Contract 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

Under the ACCESS Act, the Office of Management and Budget would be instructed to issue guidance for agencies to implement the bill within 180 days of its enactment. In 2022, the Office of Personnel Management issued Skill-Based Hiring Guidance implementing the EO for agencies to further advance innovation in Federal hiring.

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E-procurement Procurement Procurement Contracts Supply Chain 98

The Contractor's Perspective

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

On October 3, 2022, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued a request for information (RFI) from the public seeking input on ways the DOE can leverage its authority under the Defense Production Act (DPA) to stimulate domestic manufacturing of clean energy technologies. EST) on November 30, 2022. economy and our national defense.

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