VWV

MAY 23, 2024

The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) receiving Royal Assent in October of last year was the first step in the long-awaited implementation of the public procurement reforms. Cabinet Office Guidance Documents The Cabinet Office has also published guidance documents on the Act - Procurement Act 2023 guidance documents.

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USFCR

JANUARY 14, 2025

Why Contractors Are Urgently Needed The 2023 wildfire season marked the largest natural disaster in U.S. Underestimating Competition: Prepare strong proposals to stand out among bidders. Relevant industry codes such as NAICS 561730 (Landscaping Services) or 238910 (Site Preparation Contractors). FEMA, the U.S.

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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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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. For a roundup of some of the most significant protests of 2023, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Haynes Boone procurement attorney Dan Ramish. And after amending the solicitation 16 times, the agency received proposals from 1,150 bidders.

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BLP

AUGUST 24, 2023

On August 17, 2023, CABEI issued public tender notice number 038/2023, entitled “Preparation of the Feasibility Study and Final Design for the Integrated Solid Waste Management System of Guatemala City.” Submission deadline: The deadline for receipt of bids is September 26, 2023.

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Federal News Network

MAY 29, 2024

In one place, the RFP makes it clear that the solicitor, the bidder, should have a labor harmony agreement in place before the contract starts. In another place, the RFP requires that the winning bidder would entertain negotiations with an interested union if they raised it after the contract is in place. It’s not the government.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Protests and Interested Party HUBZone status protests, like 8(a), WOSB/EDWOSB, and VOSB/SDVOSB status protests, can only be brought by SBA, the contracting officer for the procurement, or interested parties (essentially other bidders), per 13 C.F.R. Currently, any offeror on a HUBZone set-aside can bring a HUBZone protest, per 13 C.F.R.

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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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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Transportation Command first noticed the issues during an initial round of IT testing in August, and they first believed the bulk of them would be resolved by the end of 2023. Officials at U.S. The court eventually ruled in DoD and HomeSafe’s favor, but the final legal hurdles weren’t cleared until December 2022.

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SmallGovCon

APRIL 19, 2024

On May 18, 2023, it entered a decision on opposing motions for summary judgment in a size protest that had become a False Claims Act case. 2023) began as a standard size protest back in 2018. Therefore, other than that exception, a contractor only needs to rely on the information in its tax return when making its size representation.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But an amendment to the procurement law in December 2023 has paved the way to making the Observatory’s monitoring systems available to the public too. Since updating the site in December 2023, visitors to the Observatory microsite have increased by more than 300%.

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VWV

APRIL 23, 2024

The updated questions will allow contracting authorities to assess the bidder's ability to manage the supply chain, deliver steel safely and ensure compliance with health and safety legislation. Updated steel related questions This is only relevant to projects/procurements involving steel procurement.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In a previous article , we analyzed what made protests successful at the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) in Fiscal Year 2023 (“FY23”). The unsuccessful bidder protested at GAO, and GAO found the agency knew about the resignation before award and should have deemed Mr. H unavailable upon submission of the resignation notice.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Earlier in 2023 we hosted a series of workshops for all public sector buyers on the Single Procurement Document (SPD) module within Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). The SPD is a standard questionnaire that allows buyers to identify suitably qualified and experienced bidders.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

With a 2+ year delay, details for the creation of the public procurement data space ( PPDS ) were disclosed by the European Commission on 16 March 2023 in the PPDS Communication. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

For first-time bidders, preparation costs can range from $80,000 to $130,000. Since May 2023, it has replaced FedBizOpps.gov, becoming the central point for finding contracts over $25,000. Financial stability is also crucial, with sufficient cash flow expected during the bidding process to reflect your business’s financial health.

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VWV

MARCH 1, 2024

The updated questions will allow contracting authorities to assess the bidder's ability to manage the supply chain, deliver steel safely and ensure compliance with health and safety legislation. Updated steel related questions This is only relevant to projects/procurements involving steel procurement.

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Public Contracting Institute

JANUARY 31, 2024

The agency made award to the next-lowest bidder at its bid price. Bidders are not permitted to revise bids when granting an extension to their bid because this is tantamount to submitting a second bid after bid opening—something that is contrary to competitive bidding principles. Global Engineering Services, LLC, B-421866, Oct.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Earlier in 2023 we hosted a series of workshops for all public sector buyers on the Single Procurement Document (SPD) module within Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). The SPD is a standard questionnaire that allows buyers to identify suitably qualified and experienced bidders.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

Along with ePS-NDVSB, other bidders may have included Amazon and Granger. billion in fiscal 2023 to $23.5 On top of that, awarding contracts tends to take longer than expected and GSA, had to extend the current three contracts through March. GSA is expected to make anywhere between 6 and 8 awards. billion in 2027.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 12, 2024

Percipient’s protest was unusual—filed in 2023, it related to a task order NGA awarded to CACI, Inc. United States , the Federal Circuit considered Percipient.ai CACI) two years earlier, for which Percipient did not (and could not) bid. But Percipient’s protest did not challenge the award to CACI.

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Telles.eu

JUNE 14, 2023

It was announced yesterday that the Portuguese train company (CP) chose a consortium headed by Alstom as the preferred bidder for its first major train procurement contract in many decades. In total, we're talking 117 new trains at a cost close to €800M.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The following is an installment in Crowell & Moring’s 2023 Bid Protest Sustain of the Month Series. All through 2023, Crowell’s Government Contracts Practice will keep you up to date with a summary of the most notable bid protest sustain decision each month. In BDO Public Sector, LLC , B-421677.2 (Oct.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

Of the 235 large contracts recorded on the public contracts database ' Find a Tender ' between January 2021 and January 2023, 20% of contracts that used open competition only received one bid. The expected level of single bidders within UK government’s major markets was not assessed.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

19, 2023, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) held that the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) had made an impermissible conversion to competitive proposals (negotiated procurement) and sustained a protest. In Great Lakes Dredge & Drydock Co., LLC, B-421676.4,

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

While these frameworks simplify procurement and reduce administrative burdens, their extensive use has inadvertently limited the scope of competition, reducing the pool of prospective bidders and leaving new suppliers unable to access opportunities.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the UK, procurement sustainability is supported by: The Procurement Act of 2023 Provides an emphasis on environmental, social and economic sustainability. Furthermore, all bidders are required to provide a Carbon Reduction Plan.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For human evaluators, this information can be brought to their attention by either the bidders themselves, or through the research that they themselves conduct when analysing the submissions. For any AI software, this relevant data (ironically) may not be fully automated.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

To nudge contracting authorities to enforce differential treatment, in 2020, the European Commission issued guidance on the participation of third country bidders and goods in EU procurement markets, stressing the several ways in which public buyers could address concerns regarding unfair competitive advantages of foreign tenderers.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

P-R Procurement Act 2023 The Procurement Act 2023 is the UKs new law replacing older public procurement rules. Standstill Period This is a short waiting time after a contract award, allowing unsuccessful bidders to challenge the decisions before it becomes final.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Their process wasn’t friendly to new vendors, leading to low levels of competition and bidder diversity, and they didn’t have good data to inform further improvements. Moreover, of the 16 bidders, 82% were based in Des Moines, and 94% were local to Iowa. Each of the 16 bidders received a contract for a total of $105,000.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

billion savings by 2023-24. This submission provides further details on the structure and functioning of NHS Supply Chain than those included in the National Audit Office’s report “NHS Supply Chain and efficiencies in procurement” (2023-24, HC 390). The full text of my submission is reproduced below, in case of interest.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The solicitation informs prospective bidders of what the agency will look for and consider in their proposals, as well as how the agency will weigh elements of the proposals. B-421325, 2023 CPD ¶ 74 (Mar. When an agency deviates from the solicitation’s stated evaluation plan, this is a powerful ground for protest.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Studying the market In January 2023, after working with public procurement data for a year and a half, B2Gov set out to conduct market studies that would serve to monitor key procurement indicators and prospective government suppliers. If I sell computers at 100, how much was the second offer? Was it 120, 150 or 200?

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Introducing the FY23 Federal Market Report As part of The Coalition for Government Procurement’s continuing effort to provide value to our members, we would like to present our Fiscal Year 2023 Federal Market Report. Thanks to the outstanding generosity of our sponsors and members, we raised $11,000 for this wonderful cause in 2023.

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GovCon & Trade

OCTOBER 26, 2023

They can offer enormous efficiencies and competitive advantages to a bidder; however, without a well-crafted agreement, they can represent vectors of antitrust risk. Teaming agreements can pose risks as they generally require contractors to commit to not submit bids independently or with another party.

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Inflation is generally down from 2021, but is still high in too many places, and is expected to persist in 2023. Altogether, “[u]nless supply disruptions and labor-market pressures subside[ ], the global core inflation rate, excluding energy, could stay at about 5% in 2023, nearly double the five-year average before the pandemic.”

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