Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

The lectures and interactive sessions covered the foundations of modern public procurement, basic skills for monitoring and analyzing the level of transparency and quality of procurement, as well as practical exercises to apply these skills. It inspired the creation of a free self-guided e-course on Open Contracting Basics too.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Participation 52

AWS Public Sector

MAY 9, 2024

We’ll utilize Amazon EC2 GPU instances and the Hugging Face Inference Container to host and serve custom LLMs in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Converting the weights to a smaller representation affects the quality of the LLM output. The g4dn instance class utilizes Nvidia T4 GPUs.

Data 69

Data Import Utilities Networking 69

The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The more complex the procurement the greater the requirement to utilize the above process to develop the procurement strategy to lead to a good procurement outcome. Following these steps while not guaranteeing a perfect procurement outcome should go a long way to ensure a quality procurement document with a strong foundation.

Procurement 52

Procurement Bidder Procurement Strategies Evaluation 52

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

SaPHIRE transforms the data into a format that CDPH can ingest, perform rapid analysis on, and then distribute to local health departments (LHDs) for use. LHDs and CDPH have access to disease and laboratory reports in near real-time for disease control measures, public health investigation, and case management activities.

Data 128

Data Quality Electronics Innovation 128

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 17, 2024

AWS Shield Advanced protects your app against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by analyzing traffic patterns and automatically detecting malicious activity. You then build a knowledge base utilizing your data, taking advantage of the knowledge base capabilities of Amazon Bedrock.

Utilities 72

Utilities Purchasing Data Government 72

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On Tuesday, the General Services Administration and Southern Company — a gas and electric utility — signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for federal facilities in Southern Company’s territory to buy more CFE to work towards the government’s sustainability goals. This is the fourth MOU GSA has signed.

Sustainability 110

Sustainability Utilities Purchasing Distribution 110

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 13, 2023

However, a key concern is to maximize the utilization of capacity to meet demand while avoiding overprovisioning. Customers typically purchase satellite bandwidth, measured in MHz, and have some degree of flexibility in the distribution of bandwidth across each of the beams. This is where Amazon Forecast provides great benefit.

Capacity 74

Capacity Demand Distribution Data 74

Govshop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Ohio University received a Grant through the Department of Energy for the utilization of carbon supply chain waste and byproducts to manufacture graphite for energy storage applications. They utilize organic materials to generate electricity and heat.

Government 52

Government Government Sustainability Transportation 52

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 31, 2024

AI and ML empower transportation agencies to extract valuable insights from their raw data collected using IoT devices like sensors and cameras, enhancing the quality of services. However, these organizations encounter challenges in data accuracy validation due to issues related to data quality and occasional missing information.

Transportation 69

Transportation Transportation Export Data 69

The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 25, 2024

The purpose of the RFI was to provide DoD with information to “support their efforts in developing policies, initiatives, and resource distribution to ensure support for the DIB in integrating AI into defense systems.” CIO-SP4 is designed as an infinite-delivery and infinite-quality contract with a ceiling of $50 billion.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Evaluation E-procurement Manufacturing 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 1, 2024

Multiple factors are contributing to the need to downsize, including a decrease in Federal building utilization rates, which in 2023 were 30 percent lower than pre-pandemic rates. area had excess space, and 17 of these headquarters had an average building utilization rate of just 25 percent. Reporting should begin by September 1, 2025.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Bidding E-procurement Risk Management 52

AWS Public Sector

MAY 14, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) convenes partners to collaboratively design market-based solutions that meet facilities and communities’ needs while making it easier and less costly to invest in the systems that power access to high-quality healthcare and productive uses of energy. System health and fault indicators from installed hardware sensors.

Telecommunication 69

Telecommunication Utilities Real-time Visibility Sustainability 69

The Contractor's Perspective

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

These new regulations recognize that “infrastructure” encompasses “broadband infrastructure,” which utilizes fiber optic cables as a main construction input. 2 CFR §184.4(c). 2 CFR §184.4(c) 2 CFR §184.6(b). 2 CFR §184.7(a).

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Supply Chain Engineering Distribution 52

Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

That means daily detailed attention to timesheets, payroll records, utilization reports, and other records that will capture the particulars as to how the delay/disruption impacts the contractor. Finally—and this may be the most important point of all—delay/disruption costs are substantiated with record-keeping. 21] See id. [22] 22] See id.

Government Contracts 52

Government Contracts Government Government Contract 52

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Using cutting-edge cloud capabilities, the system simplifies the ingestion, storage, batch processing, ad-hoc analysis, visualization, and distribution of scientific data to unite innovative research in preventing and eliminating cancer and infectious diseases.

Warehouse 126

Warehouse Supply Chain Data Capacity 126