Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The government has promoted public participation in procurement monitoring, which is vital to combating corruption and improving efficiency, but few independent civil society organizations and individuals had the information, skills and influence to track contracting effectively. million (~US$24,000) being returned to the budget.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? Attendees will gain critical insights into: What’s next for the VA budget and healthcare investments? is less than one month away! Authored by Scott N.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At AWS, we believe that optimizing IT costs (including cloud) helps unlock budget to invest in more innovation. Visibility into ‘unit costs’ (for example, the cost-per-student of a solution) helps budget and product owners demonstrate a connection between the demand for an application and how this demand influences cost.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? Attendees will gain critical insights into: What’s next for the VA budget and healthcare investments? is less than one month away! Authored by Scott N.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 14, 2024

Hilary Tam, AWS principal sustainability transformation lead, noted that IDC Europe, a leading research consultancy, identified that 62 percent of large EMEA organisations will spend at least 5 percent of their IT budgets on sustainability actions in 2025.

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FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

Justin Waugh, head of platforms, ITG enterprise platforms team at UNOPS, highlighted the transformative impact of Google Workspace in managing extensive infrastructure projects involving frequent account and project turnover. Doing so facilitates more seamless project communication, budgeting and reporting.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

There was a similar, there was a foci mitigation and foci is that foreign ownership and control and influence. This kind of is in parallel with not only that, but a broader act called the Preventing OCI in Federal Acquisition Act, which was the action items for that were headed to the Office of Management and Budget.

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The Procurement School

AUGUST 21, 2024

Factors which influence outsourcing: Smaller public entities, in terms of budgets, typically do not fund staffing resources for procurement. Outsourcing could potentially save the cost of two staffing positions at a minimal cost of $200,000 per year, realizing a budget reduction of $1,000,000 in that same 5-year period.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Over the past two decades, a growing number of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries began adopting fiscal rules to limit overspending influenced by election cycles, public pressure, and other political economy factors, helping the region strengthen its fiscal solvency and sustainability. Many rules are not binding in practice.

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The Procurement School

AUGUST 11, 2023

The latter groups have a strong influence on the priorities to be realized and the time frames for their delivery. We know that issuing a formal purchase order to buy a low-cost item and make a payment through accounts payable is not a good use of resources. Efficiency metrics examples 1.The The costs to manage the P-card program.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2022

Amrest sought a reliable data source to provide a market comparison between countries as well as a breakdown of the primary factors that influence payments and the outcome of the payments. For Amrest, it’s all about managing costs with budget and spend control acting as a key aspect of decision-making processes.

Finance 52

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2022

Amrest sought a reliable data source to provide a market comparison between countries as well as a breakdown of the primary factors that influence payments and the outcome of the payments. For Amrest, it’s all about managing costs with budget and spend control acting as a key aspect of decision-making processes.

Finance 52

Finance Procurement Supply Chain Purchasing 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 21, 2024

Arbitration Dynamics in the Two Regions Hjordis Birna Hjartardottir was the first to provide an arbitration analysis of the region, noting that, in 2022, the CEE and CA regions accounted for 10.5% of the ICC’s total caseload. This figure is only marginally less than North America’s 10.7%, but considerably lower than Western Europe’s 28%.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

will eventually ease monetary conditions to influence a lowering of interest rates. [15] First, interest payments on the accumulating debt will accelerate, gobbling up more and more of the Federal budget. Sooner or later, one way or the other, significant budget cuts are all but inevitable. treasuries. [13]

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Cost Accounting Section 802 amends 10 U.S.C. Although consolidation of the DIB has been an area of increased regulatory focus in recent years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report in October 2023 finding that DoD lacked sufficient resources and insight to perform its M&A monitoring and assessment function.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But the Council doesn’t meet very often and no one at the top seems to pay any attention, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Tom Temin It gets back to the fundamental problem in government is there is no budget for donuts and so nobody gets good meetings. Tom Temin Right. Potentially.

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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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FedInsider

APRIL 2, 2024

Since joining Fortinet, Jim has been named a “Fed 100” and a “Pinnacle” awardee for his influence on technology in the U.S. 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.”

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

On March 28, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-24-10 , Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence (Memo), updating and implementing OMB’s November 2023 proposed memorandum of the same name.

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FedInsider

APRIL 2, 2024

Since joining Fortinet, Jim has been named a “Fed 100” and a “Pinnacle” awardee for his influence on technology in the U.S. if you have a Congress that cannot pass a budget, you don’t worry as much about them taking foreign policy actions.” Frankly, in some cases, they try to paralyze government by heightening hyper-partisanship.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

31] Generally speaking, the PCE is based on the national income and product accounts (“NIPA”) data which BEA uses to determine GDP. [32] 36] Specifically, unlike the CPI, the PCE does not merely account for goods and services purchased by a consumer, but also purchased on the consumer’s behalf (e.g., households. [38] households. [38]

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Finally, the Committee contemplated adjustments in contracting to account for the infrastructure needed for continuous AI model training. He viewed the federal procurement process as offering an opportunity to influence standards/frameworks for AI development/deployment. Both rules have a comment period that ends on December 4.

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Government Contracts & Global Trade

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The EO broadly defines AI to include any “machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.” As the EO makes clear, central to regulating AI is understanding (or working to understand) its scope, depth, and breadth.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 20, 2025

As federal agencies work to meet the Office of Management and Budgets zero trust mandate to improve cybersecurity, theyre also exploring how automation plays a role in a zero trust architecture. One of the basic things regarding the value of automation in the security context is that a manual process can be influenced, he said.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 11, 2025

Moreover, Garbutt warned that when transparency and teamwork are lacking, risks escalate, especially when budget pressures drive shortcuts in design, scheduling, and execution. These challenges are compounded by misaligned objectives among stakeholders: clients focus on costs, contractors on profit, and designers on functionality.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

While federal employees need to be thoughtful about the right scope of contractors, establish boundaries, and hold contractors accountable, it’s just as important to treat contractors as valued team members. Second, mission leaders, like good supervisors, must provide accountability without losing empathy. This needs to change.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Significantly, FSS Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), which leverage individual agency requirements, now account for over 53% of the dollar value of orders under the program. billion, which accounted for 11.4 GAO recommended that OMB lead efforts with the FRPC to develop new benchmarks for utilization that account for telework.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 6, 2025

In Europe, chronic diseases account for 77 percent of the total disease burden and 86 percent of all deaths. Healthcare systems are struggling to keep up, however, with limited resources and budgets to provide comprehensive care for patients with chronic conditions.

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-24-10, “ Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence ” , provides that, “ The term “artificial intelligence” has the meaning provided in Section 238(g) of the John S. Algorithm – a precise list of steps to take, such as a computer program.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 19, 2024

With nearly 35 years of government service, including 24 years at the Office of Management and Budget and over 16 years as the Deputy Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), Ms. GSA declined to award to the firm and the firm filed a protest at the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 18, 2025

Digital public infrastructure (DPI) is a phrase regularly referenced by public sector institutions, strategic influencers, social sector organizations, nonprofits, and global CEOs as a transformational approach to leapfrogging citizen progress at scale. Automating the deployment helps them achieve their goals within budget constraints.

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Public Procurement Intl

APRIL 6, 2025

Finally, the discussion below turns to a separate review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), regarding foreign subsidies which may distort procurement markets in the United States. A 2019 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the GPA found that in 2010, the United States reported $837 billion in GPA coverage.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Conversations with State Department officials and documents obtained by Scoop News Group through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal a body that is attempting to track disinformation across a daunting geographic and threat landscape, while operating with limited budget and technological resources. “It

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 24, 2025

OPM Issues Proposed Rule to Reintroduce Schedule F The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has released a proposed rule that aims to increase career employee accountability by moving policy-influencing positions back into a Schedule Policy/Career service category for Federal employees. DOD Instruction 5205.87 Mitigation Measures.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 20, 2025

NASA SEWP VI Protests Withdrawn Washington Technology reports that all National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) SEWP VI protests have been withdrawn at the Government Accountability Office (GAO). During the episode, he talks about new defense challenges, along with the budget constraints impacting overall defense policy.

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