Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Since OCP’s first story about the reform, the government has developed an intelligent exceptions system to account for situations where applying green criteria is near impossible. We hired more people and ensured our guidance responded to real demand. In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria.

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Government Contracts & Global Trade

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Most who have seen a CCPA consumer privacy notice are familiar with these defined (but nonexclusive) categories of PI: Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, and passport number.

Insurance 52

Insurance Education Accountability Electronics 52

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 4, 2024

AWS Cloud solutions allow for easy scalability, ensuring that CSDs can accommodate growing data and usage demands without major infrastructure overhauls. Disaster recovery – The AWS Cloud offers robust disaster recovery options, ensuring that patient data is protected and can be quickly restored in case of unforeseen events.

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Procurement Notes

JULY 28, 2021

Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) or the U.S. Postal Service , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , and nonappropriated fund activities are beyond GAO’s bid protest jurisdiction as established in 31 U.S.C. [§§] 3551-3556.” [27] The third exception is for circumstances that arguably demand a higher level of discretion.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

Note the Proposed Rule explicitly allows a third party (such as an Incident Response (“IR”) company, insurance or other service provider, or law firm) to submit reports on behalf of a covered entity, a practice that already occurs in the cyber reporting world and is now explicitly acknowledged here by CISA. Listen to the podcast here.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 12, 2024

As climate-related disclosures emerge, such as the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) , and asset owners and insurers consider climate risk impacts for their operations, heat represents a chronic risk to many organizations and activities. Customer asset locations (in this example, a sample of U.S.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

8] That is, lending out money for a longer time period increases the return—because more can be done with the money, and an investor demands a better yield for the prolonged risk and opportunity cost of the longer commitment. [9] 12] Conversely, because demand is dropping on the shorter term T-bills, the U.S. treasuries. [13]

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The bill comes in response to recent sexual harassment allegations at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Sailors will now have access to their files from anywhere just by logging into their Flank Speed accounts, freeing them from the limitations of individual computers. With Only 9% of Its D.C. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa))

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Insurance Demand Networking Accountability 93

Procurement Notes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

For most contractors/subcontractors, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) will not apply unless the employer is a health plan, healthcare clearinghouse, healthcare provider, or a business associate thereto. [75] That means only certain individuals get to see it.

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Inter-American Development Bank

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The initiative, led by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the Central Bank of Haiti (BRH), seeks to widen the pool of investors that can buy these bonds from only financial institutions and insurance companies to also include companies and individuals. Total bonds accounted for 0.1 Total bonds accounted for 0.1

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