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Government Contracts Legal Forum

Commerciality, Employee-Owned Businesses, Procurement Collusion Strike Force This week’s episode covers a final rule regarding commerciality and price reasonableness under procurements for major weapon systems, a DOD pilot program involving employee-owned businesses, and an update on the Procurement Collusion Strike Force, and is hosted by Peter Eyre (..)

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: Jan. 28-Feb. 2, 2024

SmallGovCon

This week in federal government contracting news had some important updates, including a new GSA schedule catalog platform, a report on savings in software purchases, and a revamped SBA training program from small businesses.

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Top Ten CPO Priorities for 2022

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ACT AS A STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO THE BUSINESS . Procurement teams will be empowering a strategy advisor to provide a framework for how to leverage technology, retain talent, and drive sustainable value. Preparing for these future inflationary changes requires strong negotiation capabilities and long-term resilience. .

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Strengthening public procurement in Africa: a conversation with Joyeuse Uwingeneye

Open Contracting Partnership

Inclusion does not only mean providing more opportunities for say women-led businesses: Procurement for Innovation has been introduced as a tool to attract young innovators and start-ups and contribute to Rwanda’s development agenda. “So we started to look at the obstacles, for example at requirements for guarantees.

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Frictionless P2P: A Dream or Reality? 

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With establishing end-to-end process ownership at Procurement and structuring cross-functional collaboration between Businesses, Procurement, and Finance, it is also time to revitalize your performance measures. The latter is a much stronger predictor of future performance levels but is usually overlooked.

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The Unintended Consequences of Policy and Data Overreach

The Coalition for Government Procurement

For example, leveraging takes place through the implementation of goals for small business acquisition and acquisition from socioeconomically challenged firms.

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The unintended consequences of policy and data overreach

Federal News Network

For example, leveraging takes place through the implementation of goals for small business acquisition and acquisition from socioeconomically challenged firms.

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