Public Contracting Institute

MAY 20, 2024

It typically involves the following steps: Identifying opportunities Reviewing solicitation documents Attending pre-bid meetings Preparing and submitting a responsive bid Participating in bid evaluation and negotiations To excel in the bidding process, consider enrolling in our Life Sciences Contracting 101 course.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There seemed to be some recognition of the need for more State intervention through regulation, for more regulatory control of standard-setting, and for more attention to be paid to testing and evaluation in the procurement context. Public procurement is an opportunity to put into practice how we will evaluate and use technology.’

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

However, this technology has not yet registered a significant foothold when it comes to the evaluation process. Indeed, unlike other elements related to the monitoring and effectiveness of spending control, the issue of using AI tools contain its own legal and ethical quandaries. This process, at present, is not without its faults.

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Public Contracting Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) recently considered an award where the awardee had performed part of a past performance reference and agreed with the agency that it demonstrated the awardee’s capability. The GAO further found that FDA’s evaluation of the technical proposals was reasonable.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Impact of the Procurement Act 2023 on Framework Agreements New regulations included in the Procurement Act 2023 seek to boost public procurement’s transparency and accountability. The presence of clear evaluation criteria, coupled with some opportunities for further competition during call-offs, gives SMEs the opportunity to show their value.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

However, as the technological landscape rapidly evolves, organizations without CISOs are scrambling to level up their technological aptitude, evaluate their existing cybersecurity infrastructure, and install the necessary safeguards to protect their customers and users from potentially devastating impacts.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He has led and executed a wide variety of computer security reviews to evaluate the adequacy of information systems general and application controls. Key areas of interest include: Data Governance, Data Privacy, Ethical uses of AI and Machine Learning, and practical approaches to multicloud data sharing.

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Select GCR

MAY 14, 2024

Key Takeaways The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is the comprehensive set of rules that govern the procurement process of the US federal government, ensuring consistency, ethical practice, and efficiency across all executive agencies. These provisions and clauses are instrumental in ensuring fair and ethical procurement practices.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

One feature that could become a nationwide trend: Rather than try to explain the mysteries of AI algorithms, the law evaluates bias based on AI impacts — that is, how it affects a protected group of job applicants. These outcomes are deeply harmful — but they are not inevitable.” This article appears in our new guide, “ AI: A Crash Course.”

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 29, 2024

By doing so, NIST underscores its commitment to fostering secure, trustworthy, and transparent AI, while also addressing broader implications of bias and accountability. Organizations using AI and ML systems must implement the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to evaluate risks and must consult SP1270 for managing bias in AI.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

Procurement is thus seen as a mechanism of ‘regulation by contract’ whereby the public buyer can impose requirements seeking to achieve broad goals of digital regulation, such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability, or to operationalise more general ‘AI ethics’ frameworks.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Through this collaboration, AWS is helping to advance rigorous evaluation of AI systems for potential safety, security, and trustworthiness risks before real-world deployment. Our $5 million commitment in compute credits to AISIC enables the development of tools and methodologies for organizations to evaluate their foundation models’ safety.

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How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In this regard, it is noteworthy that the AI Act entrusts the Commission (and specifically the EU’s AI Office) with the task of “ evaluating and promoting the convergence of best practices in public procurement procedures in relation to AI systems ” [Article 62(3)(d) EU AI Act ]. Still, public procurement does account for approx.

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2023

Legal feasibility: Does the proposed project conform to the necessary legal, ethical, and contractual requirements and obligations, such as federal and state laws, security requirements and agency-specific policies? ACT-IAC recommends developing a high- fidelity prototype to test technical feasibility and get stakeholder buy-in.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In this procurement, the agency awarded the contract to Deloitte & Touche, LLP (Deloitte)—where the chair of the agency’s technical evaluation board (TEB) previously worked as a senior consultant. After the chair learned that Deloitte might respond to the solicitation, she notified the agency of her former employment.

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The Softly Spark

JULY 6, 2023

Achieving a sustainability certification signifies a business’s dedication to minimizing its ecological footprint, promoting ethical practices, and contributing to a better future. Organization-based certifications Evaluate a company’s overall sustainability practices and management systems.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

They work with agency partners to assess AI tools regarding bias mitigation, fairness, transparency, accountability and privacy. For managers, Kinnard says it’s critical to understand the ethical issues that may complicate AI use. Her team also manages AI platforms, monitoring who uses them and what data flows through them.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 20, 2024

laws, treaties, domestic statues, ethical rules, etc.) It therefore encompasses the publicly known generative AI as well as evaluative or discriminative AI. However, it should once again be noted that the broad definition might also include future AI tools which therefore would have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 9, 2024

This includes offenses such as small business fraud, defective pricing, nonconforming products and product substitution, labor mischarging, gifts and gratuities violations, and cost-accounting fraud. The DOJ’s charging and resolution determinations will include an intense evaluation of the company’s compliance program.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Qualifying checks establish an understanding of the supplier’s business continuity planning and evaluates things like risk management policy, financial viability, quality controls, cloud security and performance tracking across your supply chain. Legal identity checks relevant to powers of attorney, accounts and payment systems.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Guest speakers included: Marsha Petersen, Chief of the Pharmacy Support Branch at the Defense Health Agency Aaron Middlekauff, DoD VP of Government Accounts for Cencora (formerly Amerisource Bergen) Jay Peloquin, Senior Director of Clinical Services at Express Scripts To view a recording of the event, click here. Access the recording here.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

Third, there is the issue of the use of AI by contracting authorities, eg in relation to qualitative selection/exclusion, or evaluation/award decisions. That is the entire logic of the exclusion, qualitative selection and evaluation processes. The AI PPN covers aspects of. I will try to disentangle them here.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The NIST standards will likely build on its prior work as published in its AI Risk Management Framework Biological synthesis screening – to protect against the risks of using AI to engineer dangerous biological materials, strong new standards for biological synthesis screening will be developed by agencies that fund life-science projects as a condition (..)

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

From the clear tender documents to the evaluation processes, Tracker Intelligence ensures all suppliers compete on levelled ground. Enhance transparency Trust and accountability in public procurement is built by transparency. This limits competition and discourages innovative enhancement.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 1, 2016

By integrating these principles into your work ethic, the results of your decisions will always be in line with the goal of public procurement. You manage public funds, are bound by an ethical code of conduct, and are accountable for what you do or fail to do when managing those funds.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 22, 2024

1] The Government Accountability Office denied the protest. Offerors with more than one certification did not receive extra points or receive an evaluation preference, they simply had an inherent advantage under the experience and past performance subfactor, which was not prohibited by SBA’s regulation. [2]

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Compliance isn’t just about submitting reports; it involves adhering to federal acquisition regulations and maintaining ethical standards. Creating Your User Account Creating a user account on SAM.gov is a straightforward process that requires a professional email address and necessary documents.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 15, 2024

He began with the Government Accountability Office before serving as Chief Counsel to the then-GSA Board of Contract Appeals. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), “[t]hese selected drugs accounted for $56.2 1] The Government Accountability Office denied the protest. Tom also was Counsel to the U.S.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

FAS is gathering feedback from stakeholders on the following questions: FAS is interested in feedback from contractors on the following: How can FAS effectively evaluate the timely and compliant delivery of products and services to improve customer experience? The Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied the protest.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 4, 2024

GAO Assesses Effectiveness of GSA’s MadeinAmerica.gov On December 7, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report highlighting opportunities to improve the reporting of domestic preference waivers by Federal agencies. A compliance strategy may evaluate what technical gaps and legal risks exist and how they will be addressed.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

GAO Dismisses Protests for GSA’s Polaris Vehicle Washington Technology reports that after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) dismissed two protests on February 5, the General Services Administration (GSA) can move forward with making awards for its Polaris contract vehicle. Final awards would then be issued in January 2025.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Agencies also disclosed obstacles when it comes to their IT infrastructure, limitations in government-ready tools, and testing and evaluation challenges, among other issues. The Department of Energy said legacy methods of storing data, such as warehouses and databases, are outdated and weren’t designed to account for AI. “As

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The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. More complex procurements such as IT software, with technical evaluation criteria will use a Request for Proposal (RFP). A RACI chart is part of the requirements gathering phase.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Author: Graham Allen In the second of two parts of “Navigation the Five Steps of the Procurement Journey” we’ll be covering posting, evaluation, award and close out. Step 4 Evaluation Once the procurement closes bids are evaluated. The first evaluation stage is the mandatory requirements which are evaluated either ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Governed by a comprehensive set of laws and regulations, this process ensures fairness, transparency, and accountability. Federal contractors must maintain written affirmative action plans, which are subject to evaluation by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

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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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