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Marking 10 years and $120 billion of better public procurement for people

Open Contracting Partnership

The global open contracting community continues to think big about what procurement can do: decreasing medicines prices in Brazil , using open data to protect vulnerable communities from the worst effects of flooding in disaster-prone Assam, India , or delivering twice the bike share system for the same price in Mexico City.

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GSA aims to make buying SaaS easier through new policy

Federal News Network

I think that this is a win for enhanced competition, especially for small businesses that may have had to previously finance software acquisitions and have to offer higher prices as a result,” he said. This move should increase competition and drive better pricing. This is a win for common sense in government acquisition.”

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Better bike lanes in the Philippines: Civic groups won a budget for bike lanes, then followed the money

Open Contracting Partnership

million if median internal reference prices were used, to as much as PHP 214 million if the Department of Public Works and Highways construction materials price data were used. Access to data: most documents they needed were available online, but you had to know the contract number, says the team.

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Why File: A Rule of Two Protest

SmallGovCon

The Rule of Two is the federal contracting rule requiring agencies to set aside a solicitation for competition only between small businesses when there are at least two small businesses that could do the work for a fair price. But that rule does have some exceptions. Read on to find out. See Mountain West Helicopters, LLC ).

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What is eProcurement?

ivalua

– Spend control through real-time visibility into budget consumption, negotiated prices, preferred suppliers, engagement channels. For instance, purchase orders could be directly amended by a supplier to reflect his stock or delivery capacity. Freed resource capacity for strategic procurement. 100% of electronic POs.

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Gain Fiscal Predictability Through Pay-as-You-Go IT

GovLoop

The agency pays for a “committed capacity” — the resources it expects to use in a given period. If the need changes, “buffer capacity” is built in and readily available at a predetermined rate. Moreover, that expense is capped at 85% of capacity, regardless of how much you use. Customers have seen the benefits.

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IT integration problems are latest setback for DoD’s multibillion dollar moving system overhaul

Federal News Network

In light of the contract’s delays, the prices HomeSafe proposed to pay its subcontractors were based on labor rates that have since risen significantly, and some firms have suggested they won’t be able to accept military moving jobs without losing money. They have no ability to plan.

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