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DoD’s multi-billion dollar moving contract faces another legal challenge

Federal News Network

The lawsuit claims DoD made significant changes involving both time and money that prospective bidders couldnt have factored into their bid-no bid decisions. As we move forward, we expect HomeSafe to have the capacity required to support the program. 13 and National Van Lines on Dec. 13 complaint.

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: January 8-12, 2024

SmallGovCon

White House Reveals Better Contracting Initiative Procedures for reporting on veteran-owned small businesses need improvement, according to GAO GSA finds federal tech accessibility challenges driven by lack of staff, resources Federal Real Property: Improved Data and Access Needed for Employees with Disabilities Using Secure Facilities SBA Marks One-Year (..)

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Better bike lanes in the Philippines: Civic groups won a budget for bike lanes, then followed the money

Open Contracting Partnership

All except one contract (Metro Manila) had multiple bidders. million by having multiple bidders. Reyes used it to create his own visualizations about the contracts, including a map of bike lane contracts in Metro Manila, a network analysis of bidders and contracts, and an itemized breakdown of the components of each contract.

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Procurement Methods vs. Solicitation Tools: What Every Procurement Professional Needs to Know

The Procurement ClassRoom

For more complex procurement requirements, the submission lead-time may be extended to allow bidders adequate time to prepare comprehensive bids. As procurement professionals, we must strive to embed this understanding in our policies, practices, and capacity-building efforts to ensure continuous improvement in the field

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Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

Telles.eu

It was announced yesterday that the Portuguese train company (CP) chose a consortium headed by Alstom as the preferred bidder for its first major train procurement contract in many decades. In total, we're talking 117 new trains at a cost close to €800M.

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Slowing Down Public Sector AI Adoption -- guest post by Saema Jaffer

How to Crack a Nut

Please note Saema’s disclaimer that “I am commercial practitioner and I am writing in a personal capacity. An easy way to help those bidders is to use an automated bid writer to help them write their first draft. Option 1: Place a ban bidders to commit not to using AI. Option 2: Using the bidder’s own AI solutions.

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FTC rule on non-compete employees has contractors worried

Federal News Network

In addition, Ukraine wants to build up its own domestic capacity and capability. In Washington, there are countries who have significant industrial capacity to design, build and ship major weapons systems, countries that have never fired a shot in anger in 75 years. This is not the kind of thing that supports their needs very well.

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