AWS Public Sector

APRIL 8, 2024

Its new assessment with AWS offers a curated list of questions designed to provide visibility into factors related to the institution’s readiness for identification and adoption of generative AI solutions across three core focus areas: strategy and governance, capacity and expertise, and infrastructure.

Education 122

Education Capacity Evaluation Integration 122

AWS Public Sector

MAY 7, 2024

Overcoming compute capacity constraints and unlocking innovation ASTERRA stores large amounts of data, predominantly satellite imagery, in a secure, cost-optimized and durable way using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). “Our collaboration with AWS lets us access new levels of scalability, efficiency, agility, and performance.

Sustainability 128

Sustainability Utilities Capacity Efficiency 128

AWS Public Sector

APRIL 12, 2024

When asked what their organization would do with 33 percent more capacity, both employees and employers identified task automation as the top productivity benefit. The study found that employers and employees in the education sector anticipate that AI utilization will improve productivity by more than one-third.

Education 126

Education Demand Innovation Capacity 126

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 13, 2023

However, a key concern is to maximize the utilization of capacity to meet demand while avoiding overprovisioning. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed deep learning service for time-series forecasting which can be used to estimate future capacity needs enabling operators to make planning decisions with more confidence.

Capacity 81

Capacity Demand Distribution Data 81

The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Invitation for Bid (IFB), Bidding Documents QCBS, QBS, FBS, LCS Methods for complex procurements requiring evaluation of both technical and cost factors. As procurement professionals, we must strive to embed this understanding in our policies, practices, and capacity-building efforts to ensure continuous improvement in the field

Procurement 105

Procurement Competitive Bidding Bidding Supplier 105

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Generative AI chatbot saves time During the hackathon, Thorn’s Toolsmiths team began evaluating their solution using past questions from staff related to IT and infrastructure support. It took Thorn only a few hours to get this proof of concept set up and integrated with their internal team on Slack.

Engineering 126

Engineering Efficiency Integration Integrity 126

AWS Public Sector

JULY 2, 2024

For Rule evaluation order , keep the default setting of Strict order – recommended. The Network Firewall service needs the layer 3 and 4 connection to be established first in order to evaluate whether to allow or deny packets based on domain lists. Leave the Drop Action setting with its default configuration of Drop established.

Networking 130

Networking Education Balance Capacity 130

Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 21, 2025

These investments not only mitigate vulnerabilities but also present a unique opportunity for countries to enhance economic resilience and bolster investor confidence in their capacity to navigate the challenges of a warming planet.

Finance 52

Finance Sustainability Education Budget 52

The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 19, 2024

It can analyze procurement data to identify patterns and anomalies, helping detect corrupt practices and automate tasks such as market analysis, supplier selection, and bid evaluation. Blockchain ensures transactions are tamper-proof, while AI evaluates these records for signs of irregularity, providing a robust defense against fraud.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Corruption Market Analysis 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

To navigate these complexities, governments must carefully evaluate the suitability of SaaS-based e-GP solutions and determine if their benefits, such as ease of implementation and cost savings, outweigh the compromises required to ensure legal compliance and data security.

E-procurement 82

E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Transparency 82

Public Contracting Institute

JULY 17, 2024

After receiving the quotes, the contracting officer added six salient characteristics to be evaluated by the agency—none of which had been expressly stated in the solicitation. American protested that the agency had unreasonably evaluated its quote as technically unacceptable based on unstated salient characteristics.

E-procurement 52

E-procurement Evaluation Purchasing Sustainability 52

Federal News Network

AUGUST 27, 2024

A HomeSafe spokeswoman declined to disclose the total number of companies that have committed to work under the program, saying that number would not be a good indicator of the total moving capacity in the new system.

Contract 99

Contract Transportation Transportation Capacity 99

Public Contracting Institute

MARCH 20, 2024

In a recent solicitation by the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) for a ten year, indefinite delivery, indefinite contract for supply chain modernization services, IBM protested that the evaluation criteria assessing offerors’ financial liquidity and solvency are unduly restrictive of competition. International Business Machines Corp.,

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Supply Chain Consulting Government Contracts 52

The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. If there is a good understanding of the number of potential bidders and their capacity this minimizes the requirement for market analysis. A more formal method is to issue a Request for Information (RFI).

Procurement 52

Procurement Market Analysis Bidder Public Procurement 52

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For this contract, [Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology] Young Bang had the idea of a capacity contract on a Friday night. The main way vendors will prove themselves will also shun the usual paper-based bid evaluation process. “I don’t understand why things take 18 months.

Contract 64

Contract Evaluation Bidding Bidder 64

FedScoop

MARCH 26, 2024

By enhancing the capacity to navigate these disruptions while ensuring community safety, governments can actively combat disruptions and challenges to daily operations. Fair and Equitable Government : Agencies will continually evaluate and evolve to serve constituents equitably.

Government 82

Government Government Supply Chain Influencing 82

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

AUGUST 19, 2024

With the ever-increasing awareness on human rights and sustainability it has become part of our due diligence requirements to not only evaluate suppliers against the classic areas as per Carter’s 10 Cs but also against their ethics in the supply chain. Do you have an ethical sourcing procurement policy?

Supply Chain 59

Supply Chain Ethics Buyers Supplier 59

Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2025

The contracting authority plays a crucial role in public sector tendering processes by setting contract thresholds and criteria for bid evaluations. When evaluating tender search tools, these hidden costs need to be taken into account. Limitations and Hidden Costs of Free Platforms In fact, free sites can be rather time consuming.

Tender 52

Tender Bidding Supplier E-procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. We now have to help our business adapt and innovate.

Procurement 89

Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As the science advisor to the Homeland Security Secretary, Dr. Kusnezov heads the research, development, innovation and testing and evaluation activities in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) operational Components and first responders across the nation. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Accountability 142

Accountability Consulting Leadership Collaboration 142

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Having formal arrangements through MoUs and building their capacity and understanding has led to good quality monitoring reports that are more actionable for us.” A look ahead The team behind the CMS is not resting on its current achievements and evaluating the system. The results The numbers tell a compelling story.

Public Procurement 135

Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In this regard, it is noteworthy that the AI Act entrusts the Commission (and specifically the EU’s AI Office) with the task of “ evaluating and promoting the convergence of best practices in public procurement procedures in relation to AI systems ” [Article 62(3)(d) EU AI Act ]. proof-of-concept).

Public Procurement 59

Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Evaluation 59

Federal News Network

JANUARY 16, 2024

We always will be able to evaluate how moves are allocated,” he told reporters during a December roundtable. “We As the work comes in, we’re going to evaluate everything on a case-by-case basis. We are a large part of the moving market and trying to drive that. I can’t not use them,” he said. “If

Contract 119

Contract Transportation Transportation Price 119

SmallGovCon

MAY 14, 2024

The contracting officer must also refer small business concerns to the SBA if the concern is denied award specifically due to their “capability, competency, capacity, credit, integrity, perseverance, [or] tenacity[.]” The COC process is easiest to understand by reviewing SBA’s own implementing regulations.

Contract 80

Contract Purchasing Government Contracts Evaluation 80

FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

He provides technical leadership and guidance for the NG911 Interoperability and Compliance Program designed to ensure that NG911 solutions built by industry will be evaluated for compliance to standards and demonstrated interoperability. This engagement includes industry, academia, public safety practitioners and associations.

Telecommunication 98

Telecommunication Engineering Networking E-auction 98

Federal News Network

APRIL 5, 2024

The updates also make it easier for recipients to use federal funds to invest in the continuous improvement of their programs by using the money to support evaluation , data gathering and analysis and community engagement. That said they can’t really handle all that capacity.

Management 91

Management Quality Budget Evaluation 91

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 25, 2024

After defining the institution’s objectives and goals, AWS works with the institution to evaluate the current potential in terms of people, processes, and technologies within the institution. It may also include application assessments to determine if the current applications have the capacity to take on additional workloads.

Education 83

Education Data Capacity Integration 83

Select GCR

MARCH 5, 2024

Evaluation Criteria: Specifies the criteria against which proposals will be assessed and the weight assigned to each criterion. The RFP outlines budgetary information, legal and regulatory compliance, and evaluation criteria. Scope of Work: Defines the tasks, deliverables, and requirements of the project in detail.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Professional Services Competitive Bidding Education 52

ivalua

MAY 7, 2019

With resources flat or declining, the only way to accomplish more is to free capacity through automation and improve the quality and accessibility of information for faster, better decision-making. It sets the foundation, reducing operating costs and freeing capacity. Far too many organizations view digitization as an end goal.

Supplier 58

Supplier Capacity Integration Integrity 58

How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

This guest post by Saema Jaffer* explores the policy approaches that can be followed in the UK, and elsewhere, in relation to the use of AI in the writing and evaluation of tender documents. Please note Saema’s disclaimer that “I am commercial practitioner and I am writing in a personal capacity. Was it simply the evaluation question?

Bidder 52

Bidder Tender Buyers Bidding 52

FedScoop

APRIL 29, 2024

Inboxes and storage capacities hit their daily caps almost immediately. Reduced much of the manual work associated with evaluating requests and eliminated common processing errors, enhancing productivity. Customers started to receive “undeliverable” messages.

Integration 83

Integration Integrity Efficiency Capacity 83

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

All countries in the region have signed the Paris Agreement, which aims to increase countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as stabilize global warming below 2°C and as close to 1.5°C C as possible. This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries.

Finance 52

Finance Price Sustainability Capacity 52

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 24, 2024

Capacity building and training Governments provide training programs, educational resources, hackathons, labs, incubators, and test beds to build digital literacy and technical skills among public sector employees, businesses, and citizens. This helps leaders to make adjustments to keep activity on track.

Government 78

Government Government Transparency Public Private Partnership 78

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 30, 2024

Section 200.414 (Subpart E) increases the standard de minimis indirect cost rate from 10 percent to 15 percent (while still permitting election of a lower rate), which may allow for a more realistic recovery of indirect costs, especially for new or inexperienced organizations that may not have the capacity to undergo formal rate negotiations.

E-procurement 52

E-procurement Thresholds Internal Control Evaluation 52

The Procurement School

JULY 24, 2023

Evaluation Format If your organization has evaluation forms for contractor performance, use them. Share your evaluation format with the contractor and explain how you will use it. Are we seeing a theme here? Read on for some useful tips that may help. If not, create one.

Management 52

Management Consulting Evaluation Public Procurement 52

Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In evaluating whether the StructSure decision applies, it is important to consider whether the Government continued to receive a benefit during the delay and whether the contract included a specific contract line-item to compensate the contractor for providing that benefit.

Price 52

Price Capacity Contract Government 52

Select GCR

JULY 9, 2024

A good RFI should be well-constructed to facilitate easy completion and evaluation. Adhering to a standard format makes it easier for suppliers to complete and for users to evaluate. Using a standard format will make it easier for suppliers to complete and for users to evaluate, ensuring consistency and ease of comparison.

Quality 52

Quality Supplier Evaluation Quality Management 52