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Supplier Diversity: From Checking the Box to Driving Business Strategy

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Government, which has been sponsoring diversity programs since 1969 on government contracts. businesses proudly maintain robust supplier diversity programs. They have now moved from largely being a reporting exercise, to being a business strategy.

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Another possible challenge for DoD’s $19B moving contract: No movers

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For the moment, the Pentagon’s transition to a new multibillion dollar contract for household goods moves is being held up by IT integration issues between Defense Department systems and those of its prime contractor. For them, up until now, military moves have been good business. Movers say that’s not because they don’t want to.

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SBA Lifts the Application Hold for 8(a) Certification

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In a significant development for small businesses across the United States, the Small Business Administration (SBA) has recently lifted the application hold for their 8(a) Business Development Program. This move comes as a breath of fresh air for entrepreneurs looking to gain a competitive edge in the federal contracting arena.

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Thought Leadership: Knowledge – The Secret to Winning Fed Contracts for Prime Contractors

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And with consensus, execution of business strategy becomes easier, and eagerness to address the customer higher. The greatest value from an investment made by any organization in a market research tool should minimize time to research information while enabling it to arrive at quality decisions.

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New Ivalua study shows technology challenges are hindering procurement teams from achieving business objectives

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This is because organizations continue to face challenges when it comes to harnessing technology in procurement, with existing systems not being fit for purpose (36%), poor data quality reducing trust in information (36%) and staff having inaccurate expectations of what technology can do (34%).

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Big or small business, ‘this’ type of federal contractor does the best job

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Interview transcript: James Hasik I tapped into a think here to for little used database within the federal government that is nonetheless vast and I think, has enormous potential for telling federal procurement officials a great deal more about about about how their contract is performing, if they actually just looked at the data statistically.

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Industry pressure forces NASA to press pause on SEWP VI

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Increasing pressure from the industry about the lack of clarity of the SEWP VI solicitation has forced NASA to hit a pause on its governmentwide acquisition contract. “I have never seen in my career a contract or IDIQ have this many questions. “There is a lot of ambiguity in this procurement in a number of areas.