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Tab for access: How New York City is increasing participation and access to government contracts

Open Contracting Partnership

Each year, New York City spends over $30 billion a year on public contracts to deliver essential good and services to its eight million residents. But until recently, like many governments, New York City relied on antiquated systems and lacked the tools to take full advantage of its procurement data. states or indeed many countries.

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NASPO Law Institute – Framework Agreements – New Orleans

Public Procurement Intl

Gian Luigi Albano Gian Luigi Albano of Italy’s centralized purchasing agency, CONSIP, joined Keith McCook (a senior procurement attorney in South Carolina government) and GW Law’s Christopher Yukins on November 10, 2023 to discuss the law-and-economics of framework agreements (which in the U.S.

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First-Time Wash100 Winner Paul Courtney Awarded in 2024 for DHS Acquisition Acceleration

ExecutiveBiz

Executive Mosaic is ecstatic to recognize Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer Paul Courtney with the 2024 Wash100 Award. Courtney earns the award due to his growth-minded leadership of DHS acquisition activities, which upholds a commitment to fostering private sector collaboration.

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Cal Poly seeks to transform procurement process with generative AI-powered scope of work generation

AWS Public Sector

The DxHub collaborated with the universitys Strategic Business Services department to create Scope Builder, a generative AI-powered application that aims to revolutionize how procurement specialists develop work scopes for university requests for proposals (RFPs) and contracts.

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State Department wants to see ‘a lot more’ self-assessments from vendors

Federal News Network

Too often, there is little to no engagement between the vendor and the government from the beginning of the contract performance, so continuous communication throughout the contract period to avoid any surprises when CPARS ratings are finalized is crucial, said Derrios. “If You have to be that direct about the dialog.”

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After a career in procurement, she’s selling to the government

Federal News Network

A long-time federal career procurement executive has a new job. Soraya Correa was chief procurement officer at the Homeland Security Department, among other things, and retired as a member of the Senior Executive Service. We do contract management services, contract closeouts. We do call center services.

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Paul Courtney: The Procurement and Leadership Legacy of the 2024 Wash100 Winner

GovCon Wire

Paul Courtney is the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He is equipped with a deeply rooted experience in contracting, giving him unique perspectives on the policies, regulations, and standards in procurement and contracting.