article thumbnail

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. 2, 2024 first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog.

article thumbnail

Fastest 5 Minutes

Government Contracts Legal Forum

Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. View the full article

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Strengthening public procurement in Africa: a conversation with Joyeuse Uwingeneye

Open Contracting Partnership

“Sustainability needs to be seen as a wider issue, not just green purchasing and the environment, but also supporting women businesses and local economic development. The government needs to think about the local communities, about creating jobs. Procurement authorities become the initiators,“ says Uwingeneye.

article thumbnail

Frictionless P2P: A Dream or Reality? 

ivalua

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.

article thumbnail

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.

Data 78
article thumbnail

NAICS Code Appeal Still a Powerful Tool

SmallGovCon

However, contractors should not forget how powerful a tool a NAICS code appeal could be for small business procurements. This shows that a NAICS code appeal can be quite an effective tool for contractors, and efficient for the government as well. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news?

Freight 66