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DoD raises formal performance concerns on multibillion dollar moving contract

Federal News Network

It was predominantly related to those missed pickups, and those are driven by their ability to access [moving industry] capacity, Ken Brennan, TRANSCOMs director of acquisition, told reporters Thursday. How are you getting that capacity? That is an ongoing conversation we are talking daily to ensure that theyre building that capacity.

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Procurement Methods vs. Solicitation Tools: What Every Procurement Professional Needs to Know

The Procurement ClassRoom

  Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) and Quality-Based Selection (QBS)   Quality and Cost-Based Selection (QCBS) and Quality-Based Selection (QBS) are competitive procurement methods used for acquiring consultancy services.

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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

Open Contracting Partnership

Currently, the Bank conducts procurement for these investment projects, putting pressure on internal procurement capacity at the Bank, and missing an opportunity for domestic procurement teams to modernise their own countrys systems and upskill procurement teams.

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Harnessing cloud solutions to tackle water challenges

AWS Public Sector

These extreme events, and water quantity and quality issues more broadly, are pressing concerns in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, further aggravated by the uncertain impacts of climate change. Climate change is a global issue, but its localized impacts can vary significantly across different regions.

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

Inter-American Development Bank

Smart public procurement refers to making optimal decisions to minimize waste and enhance the quality, efficiency and sustainability of public spending when purchasing and contracting goods, works and services. Better contracts and processes, for example, could reduce the risk of delays, quality problems or unexpected costs.

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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. In the third, poor quality materials had been used. I’m proud of the quality of reports done by civil society last year because they were escalated by the procurement agency to the auditing authorities.

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VA health tech leader: AI can save veterans from ‘a lot of pain and suffering’

FedScoop

An Air Force veteran, Ronzio still serves in a reserve capacity as the medical commander for the 94th Aeromedical Staging Squadron at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Ga. “We Technologically speaking, society has come a long way since an old lady fell down in her house and couldn’t get up. But it’s going to be those subtle margins.

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