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2024 GAO Bid Protest Report: Numbers Down, Effectiveness Still Even Odds

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Here are some key points from this year: (1) the key effectiveness metric, showing numbers of sustains and corrective actions at GAO, was similar to prior years at 52% for the 2024 fiscal year and (2) total bid protest numbers were down slightly from 2023 but a little above the number for 2022. Numbers are still lower than in 2021 and 2020.

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Federal News Network 2021-2022 NITAAC Contract Guide

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Check out CIO-SP3 with its 137 labor categories and ten task areas, CIO-SP3 Small Business with depth in five socioeconomic categories, or CIO-CS for IT Commodities and As-A-Service Solutions. Read ahead for a quick synopsis and check out the full Federal News Network 2021-2022 NITAAC Contract Guide for more information.

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2022 Forrester Study, Ensuring Supply Continuity During Turbulent Times: A Visual Spotlight

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What’s your Greatest Supply Management Challenge Today? In May 2022, Ivalua commissioned Forrester to survey over 400 procurement leaders across the globe to ask how they plan to minimize the frequency and impact of supply disruptions. 2022 Forrester Study, Ensuring Supply Continuity During Turbulent Times: A Visual Spotlight.

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Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium

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Vishal Patel and Peter Hunt delivered their session ‘Creating Value with Strategic Sourcing’ to discuss how Procurement professionals are recognizing that the fast-paced digital landscape of today demands new approaches to category management and strategic sourcing. The answer is simple – automation.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

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Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. Purchasing methods 2021 2022 2023 2024 From a single source by direct award, billion tenge 2 326.2 by value in 2022, 3.2% in 2023, and 3.7%

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With a lot to chase in 2024, fewer federal contractors are chasing an increasing number of federal dollars

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But what we do see is that there is some growth from fiscal year 2021 into fiscal year 2022. I think we’re spending roughly a little under 700 billion in contracts then for fiscal year 2022. There’s the category management push, right? So that’ll be out at the end of December.

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2023 Bid Protest Report, Success Rate Up, Total Protests Up a Little Bit

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This is up from 1658 in 2022 and 1897 in 2021. Compared to 2022, total protests are up about 22%. And, category management has been pegged by some as resulting in a decrease in overall contracts, as more contracts are pushed to government wide acquisition contracts (or GWACs).

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