GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

When asked how leaders could create a team culture that’s ready for change, Kerestesy explained that first, you must decide what culture is. “My go-to definition is a ‘shared rationale for how employees do what they do,’” he said. Favorite

Consulting 94

Consulting Evaluation Import Management 94

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

However, this technology has not yet registered a significant foothold when it comes to the evaluation process. The adjudicators or evaluators of a tender act as both gatekeepers on behalf of the tendering process. Any evaluation process must keep in mind issues such as market forces and supply issues, local and/or regional.

Public Procurement 59

Public Procurement Procurement Tender Evaluation 59

Inside Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The proposed regulations are further explained and summarized below: Key Definitions: Certain terms are broadly defined and capture large segments of the U.S. Below are definitions for four key terms that illustrate the scope of the Proposed Rule. cloud computing sector. bare-metal servers”). IaaS products and any of their U.S.

Accountability 130

Accountability Supply Chain Networking Data 130

Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

The updated guidance builds on statutory guidance published in May 2022 and details each FWF criterion, reflecting their mutually reinforcing nature and creating a stronger message on how they should be used collectively to seek to address challenges in the labour market.

Procurement 78

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Sustainability 78

Federal News Network

JULY 10, 2024

So some of those are things that can be mitigated, usually impaired objectivity, which means basically, that you’re evaluating your own work from another contract. Zach Prince You can’t have a situation where you’re evaluating your own work, or where somebody who’s part of your team is evaluating its own work.

Bidder 108

Bidder Contract Evaluation Data 108

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Federal Acquisition Policy and Procedure (PAP) 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing , sets forth “comprehensive guidance regarding the evaluation of pricing throughout the life of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program contract.” Emphasis added.) See Section 2. Background, of PAP 2021-05.

Price 90

Price Evaluation Negotiation Purchasing 90

SmallGovCon

APRIL 4, 2024

GAO first analyzed FAR 52.204-7 and found that the text of the FAR provision requires offerors to maintain SAM registration throughout the evaluation period (i.e., GAO pointed to FAR 52.204-7’s definition of “Registered” in SAM as partially determinative. GAO sided with the protester.

Bidding 59

Bidding Evaluation Government Contracts Procurement 59

Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 20, 2024

This includes a fairly broad and future-oriented definition of AI, provisions on safeguarding confidentiality and furthermore, ensuring the integrity of the arbitral proceeding. It therefore encompasses the publicly known generative AI as well as evaluative or discriminative AI.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 23, 2024

When looking at that as a roadmap, it’s clear it has grown and improved with more definitions for vendors to figure out what technology can be brought into the fold. “GSA has their whole IT playbook and it has been developing the document over last five years.

Bidder 115

Bidder Bidding E-procurement Purchasing 115

Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

Achieving this balance is not trivial, and a crucial question arises: How can the definition and quality of these escape clauses impact a country’s ability to navigate economic shocks while maintaining fiscal discipline? Higher scores are assigned to clauses closely mirroring the ideal scenario within each dimension.

Government 52

Government Government Balance Quality 52

Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

After receiving quotations, the contracting officer added salient characteristics to the technical evaluation form to be considered during evaluations that were not stated in the solicitation. For the awardee’s first prior experience example, the TET report did not analyze or evaluate the size of the project.

Bidding 52

Bidding Evaluation Sustainability E-procurement 52

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The small team is tasked with managing a wide range of responsibilities, including overseeing the purchasing budget, soliciting and evaluating bids, addressing supplier queries, finalizing purchases, and handling payments. “Securing three quotes for our purchases poses a significant challenge.

Purchasing 59

Purchasing IT Supplier Negotiation Efficiency 59

FedScoop

DECEMBER 28, 2023

GSA’s analysis called for required Section 508 training and increased agency oversight, along with potential new steps for Congress, like updating definitions in the accessibility statute and exploring steps for “proactively” enforcing the law. Agencies were previously required to submit semi-annual reports.

Government 127

Government Government Budget Evaluation 127

GovLoop

MARCH 6, 2023

She also recognized that not everyone could quiet quit without consequences. “It’s definitely easier for some than others – for underrepresented groups in the workplace, it can be detrimental to their careers due to bias,” she acknowledged.

Leadership 52

Leadership Evaluation Management IT 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Federal Acquisition Policy and Procedure (PAP) 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing , sets forth “comprehensive guidance regarding the evaluation of pricing throughout the life of a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program contract.” Emphasis added.) See Section 2. Background, of PAP 2021-05.

Price 49

Price Evaluation Negotiation Purchasing 49

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 2, 2024

This article thus calls for a critical evaluation of the de novo standard with a view to developing a more balanced system that would pay due regard to the competing goals of efficiency and legitimacy of the arbitral process.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Balance Corruption Efficiency 52

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While it is good that the requirement generated significant industry interest with over 250 proposals received, the established acquisition strategy and evaluation methodology were not suitable to result in a manageable number of prime contract awards. It is in neither the U.S.

Contract 105

Contract E-procurement Evaluation Strategic Sourcing 105

Government Contracts Legal Forum

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Highlights of this final guidance include: Alignment with certain Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) definitions. A kit may be treated and evaluated as a single and distinct manufactured product. Treatment of cement and other aggregates.

Manufacturing 40

Manufacturing Transportation Transportation Supplier 40

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The procurement agency has now established a dedicated helpdesk and increased the diversity of its planning and evaluation committees in the process and the hope is that the percentages of women-owned businesses participating will rise further as trust and training increases.

E-procurement 88

E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Bidding 88

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This will require developing funding mechanisms and information systems to identify, prioritize, and evaluate countries’ climate finance efforts, which hinges on first identifying and evaluating public spending on climate change in national budgets. Classifying climate expenditures reveals how much is being spent and on what.

Finance 52

Finance Budget Evaluation Accountability 52

GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The law defines an “automated employment decision tool” as technology designed “to substantially assist or replace discretionary decision making,” but the rules that implement the law narrowly interpret that definition. This article appears in our new guide, “ AI: A Crash Course.”

Inventory 52

Inventory Ethics Transparency Data 52

Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

So far, it has worked … but there is definitively room for improvement. There definitively is a tendency towards amicable settlement under the DIS Rules, and the provision gives the arbitrators a justification to ask at different times during the proceedings whether there is a chance of a settlement.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supplier Balance Participation 52

FedScoop

JULY 29, 2024

It comes at the direction of the White House’s executive order on AI, which required NTIA to evaluate and develop recommendations for the models. And instead, NTIA makes recommendations that the government “collect evidence” on the models, evaluating that evidence, and acting on those evaluations.

Government 117

Government Government Telecommunication Evaluation 117

Federal News Network

MAY 14, 2024

Margaret Boatner, deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategy and acquisition reform “We are targeting a couple of really key processes like our test and evaluation processes, and importantly, our cybersecurity processes. Historically, that was not a parallel process, but definitely a series process.

Sustainability 122

Sustainability Evaluation Inventory IT 122

Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

OMB originally hinted in its Memorandum M-22-11 that for-profit entities were exempt from the BABA requirements due to their general exclusion from the definition of a “non-Federal entity” under the Uniform Guidance. The Guidance (generally) adopts the BAA’s definition of items made predominantly of iron or steel or a combination of both.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Supply Chain Procurement Thresholds 52

Government Contracts & Global Trade

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The new rule significantly expands the current rule’s definition of the “essential terms and conditions of employment.” Specifically, the new rule addresses whether two or more businesses are “joint employers” under the NLRA such that both businesses share bargaining responsibilities and potential liabilities.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Participation IT Government 52

Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Interview transcript: Shane McCall Yeah, SBA put out a clarification to make it clear that this new HUBzone rule is not commenting on how SBA is going to evaluate Mentor Protégé Joint Ventures. So for a small company that could be fine, for a larger company where it could definitely impact how they count the numbers on their HUBzone.

Contract 105

Contract IT Bidding Evaluation 105

Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

3,066/2007, the matter was evaluated by the Mirassol Water and Sewage Services Regulatory Agency (“ARSAE”), which denied the request in the administrative sphere. The Brazilian arbitration market will definitely follow closely the next decisions to be issued by the STJ Chamber and the STF on this case. Pursuant to Municipal Decree No.

Participation 52

Participation Evaluation Bidding Public Bidding 52

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The agent understands your APIs by examining an API specification definition you provide that meets the OpenAPI specification. Using these definitions, the agent can reason about which APIs to call and in which order to best fulfill the user’s request. An OpenAPI schema defines a set of HTTP APIs that the agent can call.

Data 110

Data Accountability Management IT 110

Government Contracts Legal Forum

MAY 9, 2024

The proposed definition does not specify what additional diligence should be taken, although it is reasonable to expect that any additional diligence would be short of “independent third party audits or other formal reviews related to such certifications,” which the statute provides is not required.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Electronics Purchasing Manufacturing 52

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

According to Stephanie Orlando, Innovation Manager in Philadelphia’s Office of Innovation and Technology, it’s important to avoid a narrow definition of innovation or a focus that’s only on tech. Orlando’s office oversees Philadelphia’s Innovation Fund , which awards grants to pilot initiatives proposed by city employees.

Innovation 59

Innovation Leadership Import Evaluation 59

Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 29, 2024

Currently, SBA’s regulations on joint ventures provide that a procuring activity may not require a protégé firm to individually meet the same evaluation or responsibility criteria as that required of other offerors generally. Revising Definition of an “Employee” – Increasing the Minimum Hours Requirement. United States , 165 Fed.

E-procurement 52

E-procurement Participation Purchasing Contract 52

Federal News Network

JUNE 11, 2024

The second area is emerging threats, experimentation and evaluation. This is an area where contractors are very interested in what the government has to say about definitions about what compliance requirements look like, and how do you safeguard information that addresses security objectives. The third area, is IT and cyber ops.

Supply Chain 111

Supply Chain Professional Services Government Government 111

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In today’s digital age, security has an expanded definition. In addition to evaluating organizational cyber resiliency, My eCISO can help users broaden their knowledge of cybersecurity and NIST guidance. According to IBM’s annual data breach report, 83 percent of organizations experienced more than one data breach in 2022.

Innovation 78

Innovation Data Education Evaluation 78

The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This week, in the spirit of “Fair and Reasonable Transparency,” the Coalition submitted to the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) feedback on its “ FAS Policy and Procedure (PAP) 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing.” The real federal market exists at the order level.

Price 40

Price Transparency Negotiation Electronics 40

Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Definition of Compensation The FAR defines compensation for personal services to mean “all remuneration paid currently or accrued, in whatever form and whether paid immediately or deferred, for services rendered by employees to the contractor.” [1] 1] This definition is quite broad.

Price 52

Price Government Contracts Government Government 52

Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

6] DCAA is authorized to examine contractor records related to proposals, discussions, pricing, and performance to evaluate the accuracy, completeness, and currency of cost or pricing data. [7] and evaluate significant variances for potential defective pricing. [48] and evaluate significant variances for potential defective pricing. [48]

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Negotiation Price Government Contracts IT 98