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DoD award lead times increased for higher value contracts

Federal News Network

DoD-wide median lead time by contracting approach: Definitive contracts: Indefinite delivery contracts: Orders: Median order award times are generally shorter across the service branches, while definitive and indefinite delivery contracts take significantly longer to award.

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Meet the Buyer 2024 – Get live advice on how to win work on Scottish Frameworks

Scottish Government Procurement

Meet Other Framework Operators The CoEs won’t be the only ones talking frameworks at Meet the Buyer National, as the event will also feature stands from framework operators including, Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) and Procurement for Housing (PfH) Scotland and Crown Commercial Services. What is a Framework?

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Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

Based on the research, a clear definition of women-owned and women-led businesses has been drawn up, and based around that the Ekiti BPP identified the following key areas of action: Increasing awareness of opportunities and creating feedback mechanisms to engage with women-owned or -led businesses.

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The Bid Evaluation Process

The Procurement ClassRoom

As the field of Procurement is still evolving and scholars don’t seem to subscribe to universal definition of concepts such as what constitute the procurement cycle, this article does not make reference to any textbook or academic publication.

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Remedies When The Government Ceases Paying a Contractor, Grantee, or Cooperatee

Procurement Notes

75] Again, the purpose of a procurement contract is for an Agency to obtain the goods, services, intellectual property, and/or construction that the Agency needs to meet its mission to the American people. [76] FAR 2.101 (definition of Acquisition ); see also CMS Contract Mgmt. definition of grant or grant agreement ).

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

Labor costs for which a definitive union agreement exists’);]” (9) “Allocate that part of the contract price subject to adjustment to specific periods of time (e.g., 19] See DFARS 216.203-4; FAR 2.101 (definition of simplified acquisition threshold ). [20] As Guideline No. quarterly, semiannually, etc.) 24] FAR 16.203-4(c)(2). [25]