FedScoop

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The legislation , which is called the Drone Evaluation to Eliminate Cyber Threats, or DETECT, Act, could eventually lead to binding rules for the federal agencies that use civilian drones, based on the NIST guidelines.

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Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Their performance is crucial to achieving your financial, performance and quality objectives, and a poor supplier creates risks for everything from budget overruns to missed schedules and liability lawsuits. In government co-ops, a lead government agency issues a solicitation for a good or service, evaluates proposals, and awards a contract.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. As artificial intelligence becomes more ingrained in all aspects of technology, agencies and vendors alike must consider new factors when it comes to buying these capabilities.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cross-departmental collaboration and scalable solutions are important to maximizing ROI and adapting to changing citizen demands within budget constraints.” Additionally, it’s important to plan for the entire product lifecycle, factoring in system maintenance, upgrades and eventual replacement when considering budget constraints.”

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WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 24, 2024

as they’ve been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to support the National Ocean Service Management and Budget Office under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Cadmus has partnered with Riverside Technology, inc.,

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FedInsider

APRIL 4, 2024

In October, Executive Order 14110 on the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of AI established the broad outlines for how agencies should evaluate and implement their AI use cases.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 8, 2024

The key drivers of success for IDOC were agency executive leadership commitment, subject matter experts (SMEs), and Mi-Case’s agile project methodology which resulted in an on-time and on-budget implementation. Due to immediate visualization, IDOC was able to evaluate the product, test it continually, and offer feedback along the way.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

DoD developed a standard template for these reports earlier this year to ensure consistent evaluation criteria. GAO said IBM's claims that the solicitation's evaluation factors are unduly restrictive were not supported. GAO denied a pre-proposal protest by IBM over the terms of the solicitation for the estimated $5 billion contract.

Contract 107

Contract Supply Chain Evaluation Warehouse 107

AWS Public Sector

APRIL 12, 2024

With many constraints and demands on local budgets, getting additional resources can be difficult—forcing educators to do more with less. Educators know that more resources can help provide personalized approaches that better address students’ individual learning needs.

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FedScoop

APRIL 26, 2024

The IRS said usage of Direct File surpassed expectations and “far exceeded what was necessary to provide sufficient data for the agency to evaluate.” The pilot program ran as the agency embarked on broader IT and customer service modernization initiatives fueled in part by billions in Inflation Reduction Act funds.

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Balance Electronics Accountability Budget 88

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The new government website evaluation tool , which is called “gov metadata,” was created by Luke Fretwell and his son, Elias, as part of the Civic Hacking Agency, a project focused on technology for the public good. “It Importantly, the project wasn’t able to grade websites that its systems couldn’t properly scan.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 1, 2024

An Office of Management and Budget spokesperson said the FAR case is on pause to allow further analysis of security considerations, such as roles and responsibilities for the lifecycle management of the data. AI has come a long way in four years.”

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The bill would also require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop recommendations for agencies regarding “high-impact” AI systems, which the Office of Management and Budget would then implement. It would also support NIST’s development of a methodology to mitigate unanticipated behavior from AI systems.

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Transportation Transportation Innovation Risk Management 95

ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 11, 2024

For REI Systems‘ Wagish Bhartiya, grants modernization is being driven by an increased focus on budgets and the evolution of technology, Federal News Network reported Monday.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and budget-conscious public sector environment, efficient procurement practices are more crucial than ever. Additionally, financial incentives and rebates offered through cooperative agreements can further enhance these savings, providing much-needed budget relief for public sector organizations.

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Purchasing Procurement IT Quality 58

FedScoop

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Those agency analyses, which asked officials about their investments in digital accessibility, like their staffing and technical evaluations, were due to GSA back in August. At the time of publication, FedScoop hadn’t received responses to requests for comment on the report from the GSA, the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S.

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Government Government Budget Evaluation 121

FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

The tax agency, which received tens of billions of dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act to improve the taxpayer experience, budgeted $114 million for Direct File for fiscal 2024. Taken together, these steps should help support data-driven evaluation by IRS leadership and members of Congress.”

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FedInsider

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And these organizations are likely to face tight budgets and limited manpower to deal with a cyber threat. Thursday, January 11, 2024 | 2:00PM EST | 1 Hour | Training Certificate Recent headlines have been full of stories about state and local governments and school systems being targeted by malicious actors.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

Using various analytical methods evaluates City's current purchasing patterns and practices; develops and continuously improves centralized purchasing systems and procedures. Experience with budgeting preferred. Three (3) years supervisory experience. Experience with contract administration strongly preferred.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In an interview with FedScoop last week, NRC CIO Scott Flanders said that even though the agency has turned the page on systems defined by the Government Accountability Office as “ outdated or obsolete ,” there is still work to be done for modernization and evaluation of the agency’s technology stack.

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Budget Accountability Evaluation IT 61

Tendersinfo

MARCH 24, 2021

The Procurement Team involves divisions like Procurement Manager, Budget Holder, Management of the contract, and representatives of different sectors. Procurement Formalization- It determines the sources, budget, and approach to formalize the requirements. Procurement Professionals evaluate Tenders based on Price v/s Quality.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 16, 2024

The FDA’s active postmarket surveillance system relies on data pulled from electronic health records, wearable devices, mobile health applications and more to evaluate the safety of a medical device. As the agency establishes the system to better evaluate authorized tools in the U.S

Electronics 63

Electronics Evaluation Accountability Budget 63

FedScoop

APRIL 5, 2024

That prototype is still being evaluated for effectiveness and for whether it’s something that can be scaled, but it’s something CDC is looking into, Sim said. A recent Office of Management and Budget memo further directs agencies to “assess potential beneficial uses” of generative AI uses and establish safeguards.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

An army of data analysts wouldn’t be able to keep up with the volume of logs being generated (and no agency has sufficient budget to hire them). Agencies usually have multiple servers, private or hybrid clouds, and thousands of end points, from desktop computers to smart phones, tablets to sensors, generating millions of bits of data.

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Participation Data Media Networking 116

FedInsider

MARCH 25, 2024

Learning Objectives We’ll Discuss: Identify and distinguish between technical and human-oriented objectives in achieving digital transformation Delineate the roles of leaders and teams, and the skills they should bring to the project Understand how to incorporate the goal – fulfilling the agency’s mission – into each play Evaluate budgets and contracts (..)

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Participation Media Data Transparency 93

FedScoop

JULY 23, 2024

That funding, however, came as the overall budget for NIST was slashed by nearly 12%. The AI Safety Institute plans on using the investment to issue guidance on AI safety and risk management, create evaluation tools and conduct technical research, according to the release.

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Risk Management Budget Evaluation Data 76

The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Governments worldwide control vast budgets through procurement, giving them the power to: Drive innovation by demanding advanced solutions from vendors. Many procurement teams lack the technical expertise to draft precise specifications or rigorously evaluate proposals.

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Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Public Procurement 59

Federal News Network

APRIL 5, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget’s 2024 Revisions of the Uniform Grants Guidance aim to streamline, simplify and expand the overall reach of the $1.2 Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. trillion in grants and cooperative assistance agencies pay out each year.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Navy ePS program is on track, on budget and hitting all of its milestones, and since the report came out, they’ve onboarded yet another tranche of users and migrated $1.6 It’s typically called out in the request for proposals that there will be a past performance, a technical assessment and evaluation of price and volume.

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Procurement Electronics Contract Evaluation 118

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This will require developing funding mechanisms and information systems to identify, prioritize, and evaluate countries’ climate finance efforts, which hinges on first identifying and evaluating public spending on climate change in national budgets.

Finance 52

Finance Budget Evaluation Accountability 52

AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Using Amazon Bedrock, you can easily experiment with and evaluate high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies via a single API. Also, as a council with budget pressures, there’s significant financial gain. These FMs be adapted for your particular use case.

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Import Demand Budget Evaluation 115

American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Competitive Pricing and Cost Savings Procurement teams are always looking for ways to stay within budget while maximizing the value of their contracts. This is especially important for public sector organizations, which often face tight budgets and increased scrutiny over spending.

Procurement 58

Procurement Procurement Team Supplier Quality 58

FedScoop

APRIL 17, 2024

billion of the Department of Defense’s annual budget is spent on cancer as part of a broader effort to improve military health care for more than 9 million eligible beneficiaries. That’s becoming increasingly critical as the number of experienced healthcare specialists qualified to perform diagnostic evaluations is declining in the U.S.

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Public Private Partnership Collaboration Efficiency Innovation 91

Select GCR

MARCH 5, 2024

Evaluation Criteria: Specifies the criteria against which proposals will be assessed and the weight assigned to each criterion. Budget Information: Provides details about the available budget and any specific financial considerations. How is an RFP submitted?

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Evaluation Professional Services Competitive Bidding Education 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

Under the ACCESS Act, the Office of Management and Budget would be instructed to issue guidance for agencies to implement the bill within 180 days of its enactment. Harada currently serves as the Senior Advisor, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, for the Office of Management and Budget.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Most of the time, international development partners make resources available under a project, or the government allocates a project implementation budget. Implementing e-GP requires training and capacity building for procuring entity officials and suppliers, auditors, evaluators, contract managers, and oversight bodies.

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E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Transparency 82

GovLoop

MAY 3, 2024

It’s understandable that your journey may move faster or slower than other agencies, depending on what your time, staffing and budget restrictions allow. Code Optimization : In the next step of the process, you evaluate and refine your applications and code for cloud compatibility.

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