Select GCR

MARCH 11, 2025

Certification refers to the process of obtaining formal recognition of a businesss status as a woman-owned small business, typically through a third-party certifier or government agency. Certification is usually required to participate in certain government contracting programs or to access specific resources and benefits.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As a result, addressing passive waste through capacity-building measures can generate large savings for governments. In contrast, relational contracting emphasizes cooperation for mutual benefit. Transitioning to smart public procurement involves more than just capacity building; it requires a fundamental shift in approach.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 30, 2024

That’s been true in the national economy, but it’s particularly been true in the government contracting business. In addition, Ukraine wants to build up its own domestic capacity and capability. And as you well know, we’ve had more job vacancies than we’ve had people looking for work. If we want our U.S.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 4, 2024

In the United States , the federal government alone spends over $600 billion annually on public contracts. Given its scope and scale, government contracting has a vast, untapped potential to address many of the most significant challenges from improving the state safety net to increasing equal opportunities for local businesses.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Federal Acquisition Service provides buying platforms and acquisition services to Federal, DoD, State and Local governments for a broad range of items from office supplies to motor vehicles to information technology and telecommunications products and services. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S.

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SmallGovCon

APRIL 15, 2024

In some capacity, the market research must examine the capabilities of the potential offerors to determine not only whether two or more small businesses will submit offers, but whether they are capable of performing the contract requirements. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? Need legal assistance?

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The final rule doesn’t contain any surprises, according to Ryan Burnette, a government contracting lawyer at Covington and former official in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. “We’re We’re seeing DoD really just sort of fine tune some of the regulatory language,” Burnette said.”

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Federal Construction Contracting

JUNE 7, 2022

Oftentimes, contractors find it difficult to differentiate between the government’s acts taken in its sovereign capacity as opposed to those taken in its contractual capacity. On appeal, the Air Force asserted the Sovereign Acts defense.

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SmallGovCon

MAY 14, 2024

Contracting officers are required to provide small business concerns with reasoning for why they are denied award of a contract. SBA Headquarters then does its own due diligence by contacting the contracting agency at the secretary level and allowing them to review the case file or submit additional evidence.

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Public Contracting Institute

JULY 17, 2024

American’s quote was deemed not to meet those six salient characteristics, none of which were listed in the solicitation (operating weight, horsepower, gross power, maximum speed, turning radius and fuel tank capacity). For other helpful suggestions on government contracting, visit: Richard D.

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Government Contracts

MAY 24, 2024

The federal government has introduced several strategies over the last decade to help small businesses vie for procurement contracts, but overstretched acquisition staff may have limited capacity to deploy these strategies and reverse a downward trend in small business participation.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Circuit is set to decide whether or not utility giant Entergy will be allowed to challenge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's rejection of a plan that would change capacity market rules, after finding that it would give Entergy too much market power.

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Government Contracts

MAY 23, 2024

The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council's recent proposed rulemaking clarifies plans to ban government purchases of semiconductors from certain Chinese companies, creating uncertainty around how contractors will be able to adjust supply chains that are already burdened and contracted to capacity, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Government Contracts

MAY 15, 2024

Government Accountability Office about the capacity of an agency to interpret its own solicitation terms. Court of Federal Claims decisions highlighting factors to consider before filing a protest alleging Procurement Integrity Act violations, and a decision from the U.S.

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Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Government to mitigate risks. Recommendations by the FASC are then provided to the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), the Secretary of Defense (DoD), and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

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Public Contracting Institute

MARCH 20, 2024

Liquidity refers to a company’s ability to pay short-term obligations, while solvency refers to a company’s capacity to meet its long-term financial commitments). Lieberman, Consultant For other helpful suggestions on government contracting, visit: Richard D.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 27, 2021

Government contract offers a huge pool of opportunities for both small and large enterprises. Given its wide variety of reach and the lucrative business opportunities that come along with a government project the competition is certainly fierce and one needs to stand apart from the competition to come out successful.

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ivalua

JULY 22, 2015

Supplier collaboration goes well beyond the sharing of product design documents, extending into initiatives involving product innovation, supply chain visibility, compliance, target cost programs, demand and capacity planning, and risk management. You Appreciate the Real Impact of a Successful Supplier Diversity Program.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 18, 2024

A new Pentagon strategy aimed at boosting capacity and improving workforce shortages within the defense industry has left stakeholders yearning for more details on how supply chain limitations and potential budgetary shortfalls could affect its successful implementation.

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Supply Chain Capacity IT 52

Government Contracts

MARCH 11, 2024

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday defended its rejection of a regional grid operator's revision of its capacity market rules due to competition worries, telling the D.C. Circuit that utility giant Entergy Inc. has no basis to challenge the decision.

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Capacity Utilities IT 52

Public Contracting Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These federal initiatives give veterans a strategic advantage in the competitive arena of government contracting. Set-aside programs are designed to ensure these businesses have a fair competitive edge in federal contracting. The Public Contracting Institute is proud to support your journey on the path to success.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

As somebody who led a digital transformation program in the UK government and who now listens to government transformation leaders around the world, I joined the panel with leaders from the International Monetary Fund Capacity Development, the World Bank, and Brazil’s federal government.

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FedInsider

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Federal Acquisition Service provides buying platforms and acquisition services to Federal, DoD, State and Local governments for a broad range of items from office supplies to motor vehicles to information technology and telecommunications products and services. It provides a lot more capacity to the rural conductivity,” Camerlin said.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 17, 2024

Finally, the DoD highlighted systemic risks that may impact achieving these priorities, including an inadequate workforce and skilled workers in manufacturing and engineering careers, inadequate domestic production of key materials and production capacity, instability of procurement (e.g., View the full article

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Supply Chain Balance Capacity Manufacturing 40

Federal News Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

But, you know, the issue is obviously creating a massive end around the rule generally erodes the ability for manufacturers to develop the capacity to actually deliver these products. Maybe they’re out there, but they say, who needs this when it comes to dealing with the federal government because of the enormous compliance costs?

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2025

Public sector procurement information and contracts are available through both free and paid tender search engines. Key Features of Free Tender Portals Core Characteristics of Free Portals Contracts Finder and Find a Tender are two government contract finder alternatives that provide basic search capabilities as well as vital contract data.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Over at SBA, it inspired steps to maximize the 8(a) Program’s review capacity and efficiency. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? Here at SmallGovCon , this inspired our 8(a) landing page, the 8(a) Contractors’ Toolkit (for all the recent 8(a) happenings and updates you might’ve missed).

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 17, 2024

The second issue that I’m talking about this week has to do with whether or not your confidential information is actually confidential, and this is something that is really front of mind and should be for a lot of government contractors, specifically Tom talking here about a federal district court judge.

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Select GCR

JULY 16, 2024

The program aims to foster the growth and development of these businesses by providing access to government contracts, specialized business training, and networking opportunities. One of the primary benefits of 8(a) certification is access to federal government contracting opportunities.

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Select GCR

JULY 16, 2024

The program aims to foster the growth and development of these businesses by providing access to government contracts, specialized business training, and networking opportunities. One of the primary benefits of 8(a) certification is access to federal government contracting opportunities.

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NIH NITAAC

JANUARY 5, 2022

To date, supply chain disruptions have resulted in significant delays in fulfilling federal IT task orders across all government contracting vehicles. The article cited several factors that will require resolution, such as the high cost of shipping containers, lack of truck drivers and warehouse capacity issues.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 30, 2023

billion to support three power transmission projects spanning six states in a push to boost grid capacity, resilience and reliability and bring more renewable energy to market. Department of Energy said Monday it plans to commit up to $1.3

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The post DoD is Making its List, and Checking it Twice: DoD Updates 1260H Chinese Military Companies List appeared first on Government Contracts Legal Forum. View the full article

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IT Goods & Services Export Purchasing 40

FedInsider

JANUARY 24, 2024

Many state and local agencies are looking to get out of their legacy data centers; they don’t have the capacity or resources to support new applications. As the generation of data has exploded, for many digital leaders the logical starting point is rethinking digital infrastructure. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

Under technical merits falls aspects like turnover, certifications, manufacturing capacity, machinery, Quality control system, and many more. Evaluation of tender is divided into two parts first being the technical Evaluation that involves the assessment of the tender bin its technical merit.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. A key insight was that entrepreneurs didn’t know much about government contracting.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Here, the Board found that the sovereign act defense did not apply because the Government’s decision to suspend access to the site may have stopped the majority of the project, but it did not render supplying the temporary facilities impossible.

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