Remove Capacity Remove Tender Remove Transportation
article thumbnail

DoD raises formal performance concerns on multibillion dollar moving contract

Federal News Network

Transportation Command asks the vendor, HomeSafe Alliance, to justify hundreds of instances over the past month in which movers have failed to begin military families moves on the agreed-upon dates, delivered their belongings late, or both. How are you getting that capacity? The recent show-cause notice from U.S.

Capacity 122
article thumbnail

DoD’s multi-billion dollar moving contract faces another legal challenge

Federal News Network

Transportation Command to start a new full and open competition to handle the militarys moving needs. 4, DoD had placed fewer than 800 orders for military moves under GHC compared to the several hundred thousand that occur under the legacy tender for service system each year. 8 complaint. As of Dec.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

Telles.eu

Looking at the both the award criterion and the statement(s) of the Minister(s) responsible for the transport sector in Portugal it is obvious the intention is to shoehorn to the train purchase the construction of a train factory in Portugal that would allow the country to develop a local train manufacturing industry.

Tender 100
article thumbnail

Digging out data to shine a light on public buying in Mongolia

Open Contracting Partnership

To tackle this problem, the country has proposed wide-ranging legislation , including an anti-corruption package with measures to standardize the operations of Mongolia’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and ensure they follow consistent rules throughout processes like tendering and procurement, among others.

Data 123
article thumbnail

How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

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.

article thumbnail

Procurement Planning: Steps for Issuing a Solicitation

The Procurement School

If there is a good understanding of the number of potential bidders and their capacity this minimizes the requirement for market analysis. Sometimes the need is to assess the industry’s capacity to meet the procurement requirements. Market Analysis The level of market analysis is dependent on the outcome of the requirements gathering.

article thumbnail

AI & sustainable procurement: the public sector should first learn what it already owns

University of Bristol

For example, new analytics applied to open transport data can significantly improve procurement planning to support more sustainable urban mobility strategies, as well as the emergence of new models for the procurement of mobility as a service (MaaS). It is difficult enough to have access to information on ‘live’ tender procedures.