AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cost-effective for experimenting – Pay per use, no licensing fees, and no upfront costs with access to high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies such as: AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon using the Amazon Bedrock On-Demand Pricing model without any upfront licensing costs.

Government 98

Government Government Accountability Education 98

Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

According to court documents from July 2023, “Carahsoft has acknowledged that it has in its possession, custody or control thousands of documents that are responsive to the Civil Investigative Demand (CID) but that it has failed to produce.” Carahsoft has dealt with charges of violating the False Claims Act previously.

Collusion 144

Collusion Price Demand Bidding 144

Federal News Network

JANUARY 24, 2025

Embrace dynamic pricing models that leverage competition from the commercial market. There simply needs to be greater flexibility in pricing to meet customer demand across the federal market. Static pricing ultimately hinders competition and reduces value for customer agencies.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Procurement Government Government 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 14, 2025

For example, open market, government credit card orders typically include increased fees for products that are offered at higher prices than available through the MSPV program and create compliance or gray market risks.

Supply Chain 49

Supply Chain Purchasing Transparency Price 49

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Rideshare demand prediction is a well-explored topic in academia and industry, with abundant online resources offering diverse modeling frameworks tailored to different geographic contexts. A challenge with rideshare demand prediction, however, is that the trip data required to calibrate or train models can be exceptionally large.

Demand 59

Demand Engineering Data Export 59

GovSpend

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. To further illustrate the importance of price validation, Paige then walked the audience through a spending search for Chromebooks.

Procurement 105

Procurement Purchasing Price Bidding 105

Whistleblower Network News

JANUARY 31, 2024

and its subsidiaries will pay $5 million to settle charges that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) “by falsely overstating cost or pricing data included in a subcontract proposal for work under a contract with the U.S. Department of the Army.” Army’s Tank Automotive Command (TACOM).

Contract 117

Contract Automotive Price Negotiation 117

The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 24, 2025

Embrace dynamic pricing models that leverage competition from the commercial market. There simply needs to be greater flexibility in pricing to meet customer demand across the federal market. Static pricing ultimately hinders competition and reduces value for customer agencies.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Procurement Government Government 40

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The AWS framework helps EdTechs improve cost efficiency, assess functionality expansion, and grow market share, by aligning pricing with solution value to students and institutions. This will result in more accurate cost forecasting, and drive viable business models and pricing strategies. Review your sales pricing model.

Price 75

Price Demand Education Efficiency 75

FedScoop

OCTOBER 21, 2024

would help agencies better “meet the increasing demands of a digital-first world,” the letter stated. “In Finally, the Alliance for Digital Innovation is in favor of the FIT Procurement Act’s measure to enable subscription-based pricing via the authorization of additional exceptions to advanced payments. James Comer, R-Ky.,

Procurement 113

Procurement Thresholds Innovation Efficiency 113

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As FAS Commissioner Sonny Hashmi stated in a recent post, “Our regional based employees aren’t going away, but this shift in our structure will meet the growing demand from our customers that FAS respond holistically when it comes to contracting assistance.” PAP 2021-05, Evaluation of FSS Program Pricing, is one such example.

Negotiation 94

Negotiation Price Transparency Data 94

ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Ultimately, the buyer can efficiently compare offers and select the optimal supplier(s) according to a best value/best price logic or lower total cost of ownership. This on-demand electronic sourcing service offering developed by CKS for over fifteen years is particularly popular within the automotive industry.

Strategic Sourcing 98

Strategic Sourcing E-auction Automotive Total Cost of Ownership 98

Federal News Network

MAY 30, 2024

Just this month, the Defense Pricing and Contracting unit issued a memo underscoring that authority. And as you alluded to before, it does also have a price impact on the government, having contractors and subcontractors comply with all these extra rules. Hear The Federal Drive on demand. Dan Ramish Thanks, Tom.

Supplier 92

Supplier Innovation Price Accountability 92

ivalua

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In today’s competitive business landscape, consumers demand a continuous cycle of new products and services, and the gap between each launch is shrinking. However, all too often supplier relationships become transactional, where the primary focus is to cut supplier prices. Alex Saric, Chief Marketing Officer, Ivalua.

Supplier 68

Supplier Innovation Procurement Consumer Demands 68

Whistleblower Network News

JULY 16, 2024

Its objective is to guarantee that contemporary communications networks are accessible to customers in high-cost, isolated, and rural locations at prices that are equivalent to those in cities. Join NWC in Taking Action: Demand that Congress strengthen the False Claims Act Further Reading: Armstrong Group Agrees to Pay $6.5M

Telecommunication 109

Telecommunication Internal Control Networking Import 109

Select GCR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Winning more contracts often necessitates small businesses to invest in better infrastructure and technology to meet the increased demands. HUBZone-certified businesses not only gain eligibility for set-aside contracts but also receive a 10% price evaluation preference in full and open contract competitions.

Government 52

Government Government Government Contracts Negotiation 52

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cross-departmental collaboration and scalable solutions are important to maximizing ROI and adapting to changing citizen demands within budget constraints.” Through that leverage, Cunningham believes that governments can often secure better pricing and terms than they would individually.

Purchasing 110

Purchasing Total Cost of Ownership Government Government 110

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It was our operating assumption that you try to narrow it to lessen your burden, but you couldn’t say ‘no’ to the [civil investigative demand].” These employees would have to do everything from managing contracts to keeping up with pricing changes to keeping on top of all the legal and cybersecurity compliance requirements and much more.

Supply Chain 114

Supply Chain Price Government Government 114

Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For example, due to an increased focus on value with tighter margins, price disputes in LNG projects are becoming more likely and frequent. LNG Price Reviews in Asia Versus Australia Historically, LNG price reviews in Asia were compromised and settled.

Price 59

Price Negotiation Finance Accountability 59

Whistleblower Network News

JULY 10, 2024

This allows the government to receive the benefit of any price concessions provided by drug manufacturers. Under Medicare Part D, sponsors must inform the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of any rebates or renumeration the plans received. The bill is widely supported by whistleblower advocates.

Insurance 109

Insurance Manufacturing Negotiation Demand 109

GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

Many see the need to shift to an on-demand approach to buying IT resources. Commercial cloud offerings lean in this direction, but with the ever-increasing demand for data, many in government have seen their cloud expenditures skyrocket. Adapt on Demand. This model delivers simplified and predictable pricing.

IT 59

IT Capacity Demand Supply Chain 59

ivalua

MARCH 11, 2020

Companies will face a variety of short and long-term challenges, such as balancing the effects of downward prices, output cuts, movement of demand to alternative energy sources, heavy capital investment for new capacity, complex government regulations and rising operating costs.

Supplier 52

Supplier Demand Procurement Team Price 52

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The General Services Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) set forth the policies and procedures for the evaluation and negotiation of “fair and reasonable” contract level pricing under the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program. Price protections — most favored nations clauses.

Negotiation 59

Negotiation Price Government Government 59

GovLoop

JANUARY 2, 2023

But agencies have another choice beyond on-prem and public/private/hybrid cloud operations: an on- demand, single-tenant infrastructure. On-demand, single-tenant infrastructure isn’t exactly a private cloud, which can be described as a shared resource that you own. On-demand infrastructure, however, offers a familiar look.

Demand 59

Demand Data Networking Management 59

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 19, 2024

Organizations traditionally emphasize pricing to control costs when selecting vendors. Figure 1 show a comparison of on-premises and cloud procurement models against nonlinear application demand. Workloads typically follow fluctuating demand curves. Why can’t we just focus on price? We have a limited budget.

Procurement 80

Procurement IT Price Sustainability 80

ivalua

DECEMBER 2, 2015

At the introduction stage, it is imperative that your suppliers have the capability and capacity to meet demand at launch and the subsequent ramp to volume…and profitability. Once product volumes have ramped to maturity, there is often competitive pricing pressure that will erode revenues and profitability.

Supplier 56

Supplier Strategic Sourcing Manufacturing Demand 56

Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

​ My job was to ensure I had enough stock to fulfil demand and beat my sales targets. I needed to predict when demand would peak and how fast it would decline. No matter how good a supply chain is, sudden peaks in demand can cause disruption. T rends came and went fast! On occasion, this didn't happen.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain IT Warehouse Demand 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The fat has been trimmed and rising market costs make it difficult to demand better pricing from their suppliers. Those who succeed at margin enhancement will outperform the market and be rewarded in their stock price performance. Unfortunately, most manufacturers are already operating in a lean environment.

Manufacturing 60

Manufacturing Supplier Innovation Price 60

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2023

DFS on AWS is a multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment using Elastic Load Balancers to distribute incoming application traffic across multiple targets, allowing it to scale up or down based on ever-changing demand. AWS Partners should use these services to quote pricing. Both Radiant Logic and Immuta products require licenses.

Data 78

Data Price Integrity Integration 78

SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This week in federal government contracting news looked at a new CR, cloud procurement requirements, and another push towards category management.

Category Management 52

Category Management Government Contracts Quality Demand 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

And as time passed, this critical talent has evolved well beyond the ability to squeeze vendors and suppliers down to the lowest price. In Greg’s last blog post , he discussed three areas where supplier collaboration is creating value for the manufacturer from product design through demand planning: innovating, costing, and planning.

Supplier 69

Supplier Collaboration Management Negotiation 69

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Parts of it were fixed price and parts of it were cost-plus. And so when DOE you wanted to see their internal records, it sounds like the company was worried that they would see the DOE would see their records concerned with the fixed price, which is none of the government’s business. There were actually two different audits.

Government 59

Government Government Contract Price 59

GovSpend

MARCH 18, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. To further illustrate the importance of price validation, Paige then walked the audience through a spending search for Chromebooks.

Procurement 52

Procurement Purchasing Price Bidding 52

ivalua

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Procurement Rising: The Silent Inflation Tax on Manufacturers February 27, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley Last year, the Consumer Price Index was the highest it has been in four decades, making inflation one of the most concerning macroeconomic factors facing the business world today.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Supply Chain Procurement Supplier 52

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 3, 2024

Plus, they needed a system that could scale up during peak demands without worrying about infrastructure resiliency. “A Specifically, the pay-as-you-go pricing model of Amazon Connect was a better value for MVD needs compared to traditional contact center platforms that require fixed per seat licensing fees.

Transportation 81

Transportation Transportation Efficiency Telecommunication 81

FedScoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Instead, agencies should reconsider opting for fixed-price, fixed- timeframe contracts. Adopting modular components with fixed prices benefits both government agencies and service providers. It also demands tapping the expertise of experienced “digital accelerator” partners.

Innovation 58

Innovation Demand Budget Price 58

Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

GSA said this requirement was to ensure price reasonableness of the services any one company is offering. Deltek forecasts that agency demand for vendor-furnished cloud computing goods and services will grow from $15.9 The desire to use cloud services is clear across government. billion in fiscal 2023 to $23.5 billion in 2027.

Bidding 104

Bidding E-procurement Consulting Procurement 104