SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Many federal contractors know of and participate in the SBA’s Mentor-Protégé Program. Currently, the DoD’s Mentor-Protégé Program has a deadline for hopeful participants to apply for inclusion. Also, the DoD will remove the deadline to apply to participate in the program. So, there is still a period for comments.

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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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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Between 2016 and 2022, DoD took 15,000 OTA actions worth about $70 billion. In fiscal 2022, the department took about 4,400 actions worth $10.7 Unlike some traditional contracting methods, OTAs demand constant oversight and active participation. That’s very important for us as practitioners,” Evangelista said.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Open contracting approach: Supported by OCP’s Lift Impact accelerator program from 2021, Ekiti State’s public procurement agency created better opportunities for small businesses and particularly women-led businesses, to participate in public contracts. To realize that vision, in 2021, EKBPP joined OCP’s Lift accelerator program.

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 21, 2024

And this is important to keep in mind as we run through the three thresholds that make up this 8(a) requirement, as it gives rise to some common confusion our experience assisting with the 8(a) Program. And these are an all or nothing package-deal. First , the disadvantaged individual’s personal net worth must be less than $850,000.

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Inside Government Contracts

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This blog will cover the key findings of this Report and the most important takeaways for current and prospective DOE implementing partners. billion as reported in the FY 2022 Agency Financial Report.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The potential of AD and SCM committees – some examples Treatment of goods: captive use and inward processing Take, for instance, the practically important issue of the treatment of captive goods, i.e., goods traded within the same company, or goods imported under the inward processing regime, in anti-dumping investigations.

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Introduction of the radio was just as important in World War I, while radar and sonar – other forms of conveying crucial information – played an important role in World War II. CART (communication access realtime translation) provides instant accessibility for all participants by delivering the spoken word as a realtime stream of text.

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FedScoop

MARCH 15, 2024

The congressional watchdog, tasked by a bicameral, bipartisan group of lawmakers to investigate FOIA response delays, found that the backlog jumped from 14% in 2013 to 22% in 2022, with the growing complexity of requests, staffing shortages and increasing threats of litigation also cited as impediments to the work. It takes a lot of time.”

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 14, 2024

Summary City Colleges of Chicago (CCC)—the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation—participates in two no-cost Amazon Web Services (AWS) initiatives to advance and develop undergraduate technical programs. The future of AI and ML is too important to be left in the hands of a few.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 12, 2024

The bureau CDO, or BCDO, program officially began in September 2022 as a way to improve its use, governance, and management of data throughout the department. participants at the most recent UN General Assembly High-Level Week, Khan said. We won’t have AI if we don’t have good data,” Khan said.

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Great Government Through Technology

JULY 27, 2023

8(a) STARS III officially launched two years ago this month, and it’s worth celebrating this important anniversary milestone. Then awards for cohort two were announced in February 2022 to nearly 600 additional awardees. The third and final cohort award happened in June 2022 for an additional 65 awardees – just one year ago.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

CART (communication access realtime translation) provides instant accessibility for all participants by delivering the spoken word as a realtime stream of text. 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.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MARCH 1, 2024

In 2024, importers should brace themselves for continuing regulatory changes, and the associated compliance costs accompanying those changes. CARM Release 2 presents the most significant procedural change to the Canadian customs process in recent memory and all importers will be impacted by this change.

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GovLoop

JUNE 21, 2023

Cybersecurity for state and local governments is just as important as efforts at the federal level, and frequently, they lack the resources, technical know-how, and situational awareness to secure their systems, or respond in the event of an attack,” said former Sen. In February 2022, New York Gov.

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FedScoop

MAY 7, 2024

CBP told FedScoop that it cannot publicly disclose confidential business information related to importations. import ban of certain Chinese firms.) Another allegation, which was received in August 2020 and closed December 2022, involved an allegation of forced labor and a product described as “Apple store employee uniforms.”

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We are also very pleased that we achieved one of the closest gender balances in survey responses last year, closing the gap between Men and Women from a 22% differential in 2022, to an 11% differential in 2023. These will be important points to double down on in our new strategy.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 1, 2022

gives federal employees an important tool for saving money on out-of-pocket medical and day care expenses. FSAFEDS programs provide tax savings for both participating agencies and their employees. Employers can help by giving employees benefits that deliver real value.

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Federal Construction Contracting

JUNE 27, 2022

As a follow-up to my earlier post about the need to develop a settlement strategy when a claim is headed for litigation, I reviewed the various decisions of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) for the first five months of 2022. It is important to take emotion out of the equation and make an informed business decision.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

CART (communication access realtime translation) provides instant accessibility for all participants by delivering the spoken word as a realtime stream of text. 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.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Protecting the county’s IT infrastructure from internal and external threats is profoundly important, and Lester Godsey, the county’s Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer, knows that using simple, clear language is among his most important safeguards. Challenges.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The German Federal Court of Justice (“BGH”) set off a heated debate when it vacated an arbitral award based on the false application of certain sections of the German Competition Act (GWB) on September 27, 2022 (BGH KZB 75/21), conducting a full review of the arbitral award on the merits.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In Fiscal Year 2022, 1,595 bid protests were filed with GAO. The feedback is anonymous, unless the participant self-identifies in the survey. Actual and potential offerors can participate in the survey by selecting the following link: [link]. (b) On average, the government awards over 11 million contracts per year.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Decision 4A_575/2022 (7 August 2023) concerned a dispute arising from a licence agreement for the operation of a telecommunications network in a part of the southern Republic of Sudan (now the Republic of South Sudan), concluded on 15 October 2003 between C. Decision 4A_486/2022 (26 April 2023) concerned a tennis player (A.)

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 25, 2024

The importance of the subject matter of the claim has been confirmed by several court decisions (e.g., As such, in the final analysis, the subject matter of the claim is likely a more important factor than the parties against which the claim is brought. most recently, Decision No. 2023/PN.Jkt.Sel and Decision No.

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GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

Now, Cooke, who was appointed Chief Data Officer (CDO) in December 2022 after two-plus years as a data officer, focuses on helping other state employees learn how to bring data to bear on their work. Employees of a state agency or institution of higher education can request access through the Texas Data Literacy Program site.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 12, 2023

31, 2022, although that will likely extend to June 2024. Macnak recommends three steps agencies should take to truly become digital: Understand which processes require human review of unstructured data and prioritize which are most important to automate with data extraction. Digital-first efforts are underway in government agencies.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Effective communication between government officials and industry partners is of paramount importance in fostering a thriving procurement landscape. As a result of its widespread appeal, we have expanded this feature of the conference to include additional program offices, with a total of six tables present at the conference.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 18, 2024

In July 2008, Paws for Purple Hearts held the first Canine-Assisted Warrior Therapy® session at the Palo Alto VA’s Men’s Trauma Recovery Program in Menlo Park, California, with one hundred and thirty participants. Also, in 2022, a site opened in Tacoma, Washington. Hence our motto, “Warriors Helping Warriors®.”

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

On the platform now, we have mostly small businesses and where Amazon charges businesses 12%-15% per transaction, we charge 5% per transaction, which is important for the government and the small businesses on our platform.” “We are a small business,” he said. “On This is the second protest GSA has to contend with around the CPI solicitation.

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NIH NITAAC

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In 2022, we will seek ways to continually improve upon our service delivery. The new projected award date for CIO-SP4 is no later than November 11, 2022. In 2022, we will continue to educate agencies about the value and cost-savings leveraging our BIC-designated vehicles affords.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Once on the MAC, on November 29, 2022, Forward Slope, a self-certified small business, submitted its response to an RFQ for Seaport-NxG. A very interesting—and important—distinction to keep in your back pocket. This meant that Forward Slope would be eligible for small business awards under the MAC for five years from initial offer.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 1, 2024

The spokesperson said OMB’s new Circular A-137 on strategic data management will provide an “important opportunity to evaluate CPARs data and consider better ways of aggregating, analyzing and presenting performance information.” OFPP recognized the acquisition professional behind the bot in 2022.”

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A modern arbitration institution, with an increasingly important role ” were the opening remarks expressed by Claus von Wobeser, who briefly referred to the beginnings of the PCA in The Hague and culminated by providing data on the cases initiated last year (which surpassed the previous year’s record).

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 20, 2024

In this respect, the panelists referred to the well-known saying “ the most important thing is not to win but to participate ”. Amid the potential lack of evidence, arbitrators have a fact-finding role they deem important to fulfill. Rigozzi emphasized the decisive role of hearings in Olympics arbitration.

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FedScoop

MAY 16, 2024

Active recruiting As AI hiring efforts move forward, officials are stressing the importance of recruitment. Hiring a diverse federal workforce across the government has been an important issue for the Biden administration since its early days. When it comes to the federal AI workforce, specifically, there aren’t yet figures.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

This was the third installment in the “Affaires d’Etats” series on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (“ISDS”) initiated by Curtis during 2022 PAW. countries, are by far the most vocal participants in the discussions. On the other hand, she noted that the home countries of investors initiating most claims, such as the U.S.,

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