The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 29, 2024

This symposium is an excellent opportunity for contracts and compliance professionals, Federal account executives, and other professionals to stay informed and ensure their organizations are prepared for current and future cybersecurity requirements from their Federal customers. 1] The Government Accountability Office denied the protest.

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Import and Trade Remedies

JULY 25, 2024

On July 4, 2024, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced its compliance priorities for commercial imports and it updated its 2024 trade verification priorities. An analysis of the July 2024 compliance and trade verification priorities is outlined below.

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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. that was finalized in February 2024. The Coalition’s 2024 Spring Training Conference – What is Fair and Reasonable, Part 2: Let’s Continue the Dialogue!

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FedScoop

APRIL 26, 2024

A Government Accountability Report issued earlier this month, meanwhile, found that the IRS’s budget estimates for Direct File didn’t include start-up costs for the technology behind the system. The post IRS touts Direct File usage, while mulling the future of the program appeared first on FedScoop.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.” Cross-departmental collaboration and scalable solutions are important to maximizing ROI and adapting to changing citizen demands within budget constraints.”

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FedInsider

APRIL 2, 2024

“Frankly, in some cases, they try to paralyze government by heightening hyper-partisanship… if you have a Congress that cannot pass a budget, you don’t worry as much about them taking foreign policy actions.” Iran also sent intimidating emails to voters in 2020.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Just three of the 23 civilian Chief Financial Officer Act agencies have met the cyber event logging standards called out in President Joe Biden’s 2021 cybersecurity executive order and a subsequent Office of Management and Budget memo, a new Government Accountability Office report found.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 3, 2024

The NRC's IT budget for 2024 is $170 million and the agency requested $190 million for 2025. ( Pandemic lessons agencies can use to protect programs from fraud - Pandemic Response Accountability Committee) The Federal Housing Administration is the latest agency to issue cybersecurity reporting rules.

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

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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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FedScoop

AUGUST 16, 2024

market, it has run into funding challenges for active surveillance and found “limited use of unique device identifiers in electronic health records and billing claims,” according to the Government Accountability Office. As the agency establishes the system to better evaluate authorized tools in the U.S

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FedInsider

AUGUST 5, 2024

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 90 Minutes | 1.5 Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 90 Minutes | 1.5 The Office of Management and Budget recently released policy guidance to remove unnecessary barriers that hinder agencies’ responsible implementation of AI-centric solutions.

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 14, 2024

Whistleblower advocates are calling on members of Congress to include the IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act as a part of the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 , the large bipartisan tax bill currently being negotiated in Congress.

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FedInsider

APRIL 22, 2024

Friday, May 10, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 90 Minutes | 1.5 And both the state and the city have open data portals to provide accessibility, transparency, and accountability. Close Contributing Editor , FedInsider REGISTER The post Vision 2024: Getting in a New York (IT) State of Mind first appeared on FedInsider.

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FedScoop

APRIL 17, 2024

Fresh off a filing season that saw the Internal Revenue Service set records for customer response time and website traffic, the tax agency’s chief is now looking at how artificial intelligence-powered solutions can better address taxpayer needs in 2024 and beyond. During the ACT-IAC/DCI CX Summit in Arlington, Va.,

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You can configure your account with us to receive email notifications whenever new tenders are published in your sectors of expertise. Consultancies get vital early insight into client needs, budget allocations, scoping requirements and bidding timelines to prepare in advance. The post How To Win Management Consultancy Tenders In 2024?

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

GSA Releases Phase 3 MAS Consolidation Plans for FY24 On April 24, the General Services Administration (GSA) published an Interact notice on its Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Consolidation Phase 3 plans for fiscal year (FY) 2024. CIO-SP3, which was set to expire this month, has now been extended through October 29, 2024.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

On February 26, 2024, a U.S. Just days later, on March 5, 2024, House Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Raskin introduced the Federal AI Governance and Transparency Act.

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FedInsider

APRIL 2, 2024

if you have a Congress that cannot pass a budget, you don’t worry as much about them taking foreign policy actions.” Russia used these tactics during the 2016 and 2022 elections, and China is attempting to follow suit with a slew of fake social media accounts targeting candidates and sharing misinformation.

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FedInsider

MARCH 25, 2024

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE When Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” was issued in May 2021, it included directives for agencies to establish several incident response and logging procedures, including sharing information on incident detection and response, by August 2023.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 22, 2024

While the government communicates its innovation priorities to the industry somewhat well, budget instabilities and limited application of novel acquisition pathways that the Pentagon continues to use as an exception rather than the rule is what lowered the grade. But the U.S. That’s up from the $191 million enacted last year.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 20, 2024

Your proposal should demonstrate your company’s expertise, experience, and ability to deliver the project on time and within budget. Contractors must have robust systems in place to track costs, submit accurate incurred cost submissions, and comply with Cost Accounting Standards (CAS).

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Office of Management and Budget will extend the public comment period until late December for its new Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) draft guidance, the deputy federal CIO told FedScoop. And because of that, OMB needs additional time to take those into account and continue to converse with the public.

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Import and Trade Remedies

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The government will engage further with stakeholders in early 2024. Since the Spring Budget 2023, the government has reviewed the authorisation application forms and commenced the co-design process of a Modernising Authorisations policy with industry partners.

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 26, 2024

“The IRS is clearly interested in hearing from whistleblowers with detailed information about significant, recent, and current tax evasion regarding high-wealth individuals, complicated partnerships, overseas accounts, and large businesses.” However, the report also contains bad news according to whistleblower advocates.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 5, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget’s 2024 Revisions of the Uniform Grants Guidance aim to streamline, simplify and expand the overall reach of the $1.2 Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. trillion in grants and cooperative assistance agencies pay out each year.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 24, 2024

In March 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo that provides more specific directions to agencies for compliance with the guidance outlined in the executive order. Enabling agencies to build and strengthen AI governance Robust governance is the foundation upon which responsible AI initiatives must be built.

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FedInsider

AUGUST 17, 2024

Friday, September 6, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 90 Minutes | 1.5 Prior to Illumio, Michael was a network and security solution specialist at VMware serving the Mid-Atlantic Public Sector market as well as a Named Account Executive at Citrix Systems responsible for Remote Workforce, SASE and SD-WAN solutions.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

“We want to hold government accountable. These SOPs will not only serve as guidance for the auditors on how to carry out their work effectively but also for citizens on how to hold government accountable,” said Wana Alamsyah from ICW. billion). “We

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb stepped onto the Music Hall stage in the city’s Public Auditorium on March 5, 2024, it was hard not to lose your place on the continuum of past, present and future. Besides symbolizing a bygone era, Public Auditorium is one of many underused assets draining the city’s budget.

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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

“Agencies have had difficulty finding employees with such knowledge and may have to pay a premium for specialized staff or contractors,” according to a recent report on modernization from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). This is called technical debt.

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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. I think that in 2024 and 2025, we're going to pilot various ways of what this can look like," said OPM Deputy Associate Director for FEBs Kelly DeGraff. Mace is holding a hearing on February 29. (

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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).

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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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Federal News Network

MARCH 26, 2024

As you alluded to, the Government Accountability Office came out with a report recently saying 75% of federal agencies pay their hourly wage workers incorrectly, while some agencies pay more than the prevailing wage, a number of the pay less. And there’s actually appropriations for 2024. The numbers are good for contractors.

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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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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But, you know, with the threat of a continuing resolution for the rest of the year, for the lack of new budget authority, you know, new appropriations for the current fiscal year. They both of those 2024 and 23 had provisions authorizing the government to grant relief were cost increases due to inflation. 23 it never happened.

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