The Softly Spark

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The term non-toxic lacks a universally accepted definition, which has resulted in ongoing litigation regarding whether a product causes harm. Similarly, the EPA’s Safer Choice program evaluates ingredients for their potential impacts on human health and the environment, ensuring that products contain only the least harmful ingredients.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Transparency Import Utilities 52

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 121

Sustainability Evaluation Inventory IT 121

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As the science advisor to the Homeland Security Secretary, Dr. Kusnezov heads the research, development, innovation and testing and evaluation activities in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) operational Components and first responders across the nation.

Accountability 142

Accountability Consulting Leadership Collaboration 142

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 64

Price Evaluation Negotiation Purchasing 64

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. And yet, most of the time, they play a subtle yet important role in anyone’s decision making.

Public Procurement 59

Public Procurement Procurement Tender Evaluation 59

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.

Procurement 89

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Bidding 89

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It is thus important to understand the shortcomings inherent to this approach and to the model AI clauses, before assuming that their use will actually ensure the ‘trustworthy, transparent, and accountable development [and deployment] of AI technologies’. Whichever way this goes, this puts the public buyer in a position of rule-taker.

Buyers 88

Buyers E-procurement Transparency Procurement 88

Select GCR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This article will explore what is prime contractor roles, responsibilities, and the importance of prime contractors in government projects. Definition of Prime Contractor A prime contractor refers to an entity that receives a government contract to oversee and carry out a project.

Government Contracts 52

Government Contracts Contract Bidding Participation 52

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.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Thresholds Ethics Accountability 52

Tendersinfo

JUNE 4, 2021

As government bids follow a definite procurement process it is important for Bid Managers to meet all the deadlines and eligibility criteria of Government Procurement. Most government institutions have a Supplier Database and it is important to get yourself registered in the respective portals to secure a free and fair chance to bid.

Bidding 52

Bidding Tender Buyers E-procurement 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 97

Supply Chain Professional Services Government Government 97

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

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

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

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 9, 2023

Public procurement accounts for around 13-20% of global GDP , so it has the potential to be an important tool for governments to promote gender equality. This step is important as it facilitates collaboration and input from the various stakeholders in the initiative, not just the procurement agency. 2) Definition of requirements.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Participation Procurement Import 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

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

Federal News Network

APRIL 16, 2024

And so, by definition, when that’s the case, you’re going to have work not being done because jobs aren’t going to be filled. It’s important work. How does the government evaluate that? And in the last four years that I’ve been asking this question, not a single hand has ever gone up.

Government 106

Government Government Professional Services Bidding 106

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 2, 2024

However, while seeking to preserve important public policy objectives, de novo review may sometimes lead to inefficiencies and unfairness in the process, contrary to arbitration’s stated goals of obtaining the fair resolution of disputes without unnecessary delay or expense.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Balance Corruption Efficiency 52

Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It is important, however, also to consider that contract prices on an indefinite quantity indefinite delivery contract, such as the MAS, are based on unknown requirements and must cover every possible contingency, e.g. , quantity, quality, delivery, complexity, scale, location, security clearance level, etc.

Price 52

Price Quantity Quality Import 52

SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

One important proposed change concerns the legacy employee rule, which we have briefly discussed before. The second, and even more important change, is a proposed limit on the number of legacy employees. Summary Looking at the proposed changes, SBA is definitely moving towards a stricter implementation of the HUBZone program.

Contract 80

Contract Government Contracts Import Utilities 80

AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Audit Manager then captures AWS Config evaluations as evidence for audits. You can define patch baselines, maintain up-to-date antivirus definitions, and enforce firewall policies. AWS Config rules AWS Config allows you to remediate noncompliant resources that are evaluated by AWS Config rules.

Accountability 81

Accountability Management Evaluation Inventory 81

Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It also is important to keep in mind that BABA, and by extension, OMB’s Guidance, applies only to infrastructure projects and infrastructure spending – the requirements do not apply to other forms of federal spending, whether through the procurement process, or through other non-infrastructure grant and assistance opportunities.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Supply Chain Procurement Thresholds 52

The Procurement School

JULY 16, 2024

But first a definition of efficiency. For a more complete description of Contract Management process click here Clear Language Clear and precise contract terms and conditions are important in contract management. Automated expiry and renewal alerts reminders are an important component of contract management.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Procurement Contract Supplier 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It is important, however, also to consider that contract prices on an indefinite quantity indefinite delivery contract, such as the MAS, are based on unknown requirements and must cover every possible contingency, e.g. , quantity, quality, delivery, complexity, scale, location, security clearance level, etc.

Price 45

Price Quantity Quality Import 45

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

and qualifies it in two important ways: (1) the overall requirement is that the AI system’s operation should be ‘ sufficiently transparent’, with ‘sufficient’ creating a lot of potential issues here; and, (2) the reference to ‘Good Industry Practice’ [more on this below].

Supplier 75

Supplier Transparency Negotiation Procurement 75

Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 10, 2024

This article analyses the new possibility for statutory arbitration clauses in Switzerland and evaluates the importance of the supplemental rules in practice. Yet a relevant report released by the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (‘ICCA’) has definitively concluded otherwise.

Balance 52

Balance Evaluation Import Utilities 52

The Procurement School

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Those general definitions are great and simple, but questions remain, is collaborative procurement good for my entity? There are some tools and road maps available online to help make your decision easier, but the most important thing is to ask questions. And maybe most importantly to what’s in it for me and my entity?

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Procurement Purchasing Public Procurement 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 Participation Balance 52

ivalua

MARCH 3, 2020

This means that a company with an efficient source-to-pay process will definitely have a competitive advantage over its peers when it comes to working with innovative startups. This is why it is important to have an open door for them to submit their projects. Startups would rather get less money but get it faster.

Procurement 72

Procurement Supplier Collaboration Innovation 72

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This is particularly important as the new 2023 procurement law expands monitoring from only central government entities to local institutions as well. Valle says: “It is very important to make bad practices transparent regardless of who is responsible for them.

Procurement 62

Procurement E-procurement Tender Purchasing 62

Bonfire

MAY 17, 2022

These businesses would include entrepreneurs or businesses with fewer than 50 employees (definition varies per jurisdiction) as well as businesses owned by women or people of color. How did you approach designing your diversity initiatives and evaluating your strategy? Legislation was the centralizing factor to those efforts.

Supplier 52

Supplier Education Public Private Partnership Procurement Team 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 17, 2024

This blog post tests the use of behavioral economics in arbitration to evaluate the consequences of a party’s failure to produce information. Evaluating the Parties’ Conduct Jagusch’s remark and Colombia’s conduct give much to think from the standpoint of behavioral economics.

Corruption 52

Corruption Evaluation IT Efficiency 52

ivalua

JULY 22, 2020

Also, the guidelines offer a broader definition of outsourcing and bring a special focus on “critical activities”: Outsourced : an authorized entity’s use of a third party to perform activities that which would normally be undertaken by the authorized entity. Assess supplier performance according to contract expectations.

Supplier 52

Supplier Risk Management Management Contract 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 22, 2024

It was a special honor to have members of the Caggiano family present to pay tribute to Joe Caggiano’s enduring legacy, reminding us of the importance of continuing his commitment to service and community. This Legal Update summarizes the Court’s decision and highlights important takeaways for federal contractors that pursue OT opportunities.

E-procurement 52

E-procurement Bidding Procurement Consulting 52

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 20, 2022

However, to understand what is behind the definition of a target and its (non)compliance, we also gathered information about the institutional frameworks of each rule. We also delve into the changes introduced in the laws over the years to identify modifications in the targets or a definitive rule suspension.

Balance 52

Balance Budget Sustainability Influencing 52

Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Green PFM refers to promoting better integration of climate action throughout the public expenditure cycle, from fiscal and budgetary planning to monitoring and evaluation of expenditure efficiency. 7- It is necessary to green public investment management systems.

Finance 52

Finance Sustainability Price Budget 52