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

The Procurement ClassRoom

Organizational procurement policies often establish thresholds for the application of RFQs, RFPs, REOIs, and IFBs, defining their use within specific procurement methods or strategies. Most organizational procurement policies define thresholds that dictate when a particular method should be used.

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Enhancing resource sharing with AWS Outposts

AWS Public Sector

Implement constraints and quotas for each consumer account to prevent a single consumer from monopolizing available capacity. Through a series of intuitive dashboards and control panels, users can effectively manage resource allocation, set thresholds, and track utilization. Threshold for Amazon EC2 resource on Outpost level.

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Why File: A Rule of Two Protest

SmallGovCon

FAR 19.502-2(a) requires that all acquisitions for supplies or services that have an anticipated dollar value above the micro-purchase threshold ($10,000 at the time of this post) but not over the simplified acquisition threshold or SAT ($250,000 at the time of this post) be set aside for small businesses.

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Generative AI could raise questions for federal records laws

FedScoop

Company will work with Agency in good faith to ensure that Company’s record management and data storage processes meet or exceed the thresholds required for Agency’s compliance with applicable records management laws and regulations.” “For clarity, any Federal Records-related obligations are Agency’s, not Company’s.

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

Inter-American Development Bank

As a result, addressing passive waste through capacity-building measures can generate large savings for governments. Transitioning to smart public procurement involves more than just capacity building; it requires a fundamental shift in approach. Sir Oliver Hart explains the guiding principles during the IDB event on Sept.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society. The team continues to add new variables.

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FAR Council Issues Interim Rule Outlining Procedures Relating to Excluded Covered Articles and Sources

Inside Government Contracts

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).