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Procurement Planning: Steps for Issuing a Solicitation

The Procurement School

The implied outcome is that we are seeking to insure value for taxpayer dollars. If there is a good understanding of the number of potential bidders and their capacity this minimizes the requirement for market analysis. Sometimes the need is to assess the industry’s capacity to meet the procurement requirements.

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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector

Covered California’s objectives are to increase the number of insured Californians, improve healthcare quality, lower costs, and reduce health disparities through an innovative, competitive marketplace that empowers consumers to choose the health plan and providers that give them the best value. Louis University.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Or how could buyers minimize the very real risk of greenwashing?

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CyberSmart 2024: Facing a Rapidly Changing Landscape

FedInsider

In 2008, he separated from Active Duty to achieve his Doctorate in Health Sciences, but still serves in a reserve capacity today. He was involved in pioneering efforts with technology, law and insurance leaders to build one of the first wholistic data breach prevention and response cyber security solutions in the market.

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Covered California provides affordable healthcare access, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector

Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, purchasing insurance in the individual market proved challenging for those without employer-sponsored health benefits. In 2013, more than 17% of Californians did not have health insurance. There are more than nine million active accounts.

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Prioritizing Mission Critical Climate Resilience

FedInsider

In 2018, the Government Accountability Office issued a report, “Long-Range Emerging Threats Facing the United States As Identified by Federal Agencies,” that identified 26 long-term threats in four categories – including climate change. This means that the issue of “resilience” itself needs rethinking. Prior to this appointment, Ms.

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Emory University supports AI.Humanity initiative with high-performance computing on AWS

AWS Public Sector

Storage options: Emory uses high-speed file systems, like Amazon FSx for Lustre , to meet the performance needs of their high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, along with virtually unlimited storage capacity with services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).