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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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Strategies for Dealing with a Government Shutdown

SmallGovCon

Shuttering of the government (or parts of the government) following appropriations lapses has become an increasingly common phenomenon in recent times. Funding lapses interrupt the usual predictability of government operations, which harms both agencies and federal contractors that are left in limbo with stop work orders.

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ECS Lands $60B GSA OASIS+ Contract to Boost Government Efficiency

ExecutiveBiz

ECS, an information technology systems integrator specializing in data and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise transformation, has been selected by the General Services Administration as a prime contractor on a 10-year, $60 billion contract for consulting and enterprise transformation services.

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Ransomware presents a growing threat to vulnerable local governments

American City & Country

The company is a licensed independent CPA firm providing tax and business consulting services to their clients, which includes governments. Local governments have been a unique entity in the cyber-security landscape because of their lack of ability to pay ransomware,” Mahna explains. What’s more, local governments remain vulnerable.

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No Protesting Canceled Contracts, Says COFC

SmallGovCon

Often contractors will protest an award, then learn that the contract at issue was cancelled by the government due to corrective action. Court of Federal Claims (COFC) heard a bid protest in which a protested procurement saw its contract and orders cancelled due to corrective action, but the protester wanted to continue protesting.

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Fixed Price Contracts: Government Contractors Beware

Government Contracts Navigator

Many predict that, among other procurement and regulatory reforms, the new administration will implement policies favoring the award of fixed-price government contracts and grants. Throughout the years, the procurement pendulum has swung back and forth in favor of and against fixed-price contracting.

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Coming to a contract protest near you, loser pays legal fees

Federal News Network

It calls on the Defense Department and the Government Accountability Office to develop a plan to test a novel idea: having companies that lose bid protests to repay DoD for legal costs. What are the differences in the conditions under which the government could recover? Tom Temin: OK, so what is the gambit now? Chris Griesedieck: Yeah.

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