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Breaking down barriers: The challenges of federal micro-purchases for small businesses

Federal News Network

Raising the micro-purchase threshold One potential solution to these challenges is to raise the micro-purchase threshold, allowing federal agencies greater discretion in engaging directly with small businesses.

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Top Strategies for Successfully Selling to the Government

Select GCR

This guide breaks down the crucial steps: identifying contracting opportunities, understanding procurement processes, and building relationships with government buyers. Key Takeaways Understand the unique decision-making dynamics and purchasing policies of government buyers to tailor your offerings and build strong relationships.

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GSA’s commercial platforms program to grow by five providers

Federal News Network

GSA created the CPI program under a proof-of-concept moniker with awards to Amazon, Fischer and Overstock Government in 2020 under direction from Congress with a goal of capturing data on and managing products under the micro purchase threshold of $10,000. Overstock Government decided not to bid on the next generation platform, sources say.

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

In our region and within multilateral developing banks, it is a common practice to rely exclusively on monetary thresholds to decide on selection methods, which can be problematic as it is not the optimal solution for all cases. In contrast, relational contracting emphasizes cooperation for mutual benefit.

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Simplifying Public Sector Procurement: Strategies to Increase Sme Participation

The Procurement School

Seasoned practitioners in public procurement can be jaded from situations that have gone wrong, and it is common for inexperienced public buyers to experience risk aversion and fear of the unknown. Relationships will benefit when buyers promptly respond to SMEs’ queries and consider them as a valuable and positive part of the job.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society. The team continues to add new variables.

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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

How to Crack a Nut

However, to assess the (abstract) potential of procurement as a regulatory tool, it is worth distinguishing between practical and legal challenges, and to focus on legal challenges that would be present at all levels of public buyer capability. They are thus unlikely to operate as an adequate tool to support regulation by contract.