AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To better support its clients, Acentra Health implemented an intelligent document processing (IDP) solution using AWS services. In this post, learn how Acentra Health’s IDP solution reduced document processing times by more than 50 percent and lowered document processing costs by 40 percent.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Federal agencies typically collect, manage, use, and distribute a wide array of documents. Storing and distributing federal agency documents is often a complicated process; documents can range from structured formats to free-flowing documentation with personal identifiable information (PII) that needs careful redaction.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 31, 2024

This is often attributed to configuration management, total asset inventory, compliance with agency third-party security tools, and agency authorization documentation. The key to ensuring security and compliance is ensuring proper documentation and securing the baseline template utilized.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Printing remains an important part of the workday for most federal users, whether they are working onsite at their agency or remotely from a home office. Stats as far back as 2009 show that federal employees on average print about 30 pages per day, totaling thousands of pages per user, per year.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Court of Federal Claims concerning an agency's decision not to hold post-award discussions, a timeliness trap in certain Federal Supply Schedule procurements and the importance of providing contemporaneous documentation in price-evaluation protests.

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Select GCR

MARCH 11, 2025

The certification process by WBENC includes a comprehensive documentation review and a site visit to ensure womens control and ownership. Preparing Your Documentation Preparing documentation is a critical step. These documents verify income sources and financial stability. providing a wide network of support.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Public sector organizations worldwide face a common challenge: processing an ever-growing volume of document-heavy applications across various services. While we focus on naturalization as our primary example, the solution discussed can be applied to any public sector use case involving large-scale document processing.

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

MARCH 22, 2024

Part of the due diligence should be identifying, understanding the importance of stakeholder management related to the project or procurement. When embarking on a procurement it is important to understand who may be affected and who may affect the business so the first thing to do is to identify your stakeholders. you suppliers.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The second thing is that this list of documents is not subject to debate by the agency. This means the agency must produce the whole list, and the agency cannot object to producing any of the documents. Finally, the list of documents includes the proposals and evaluation record for all offerors.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Two data points help us understand some important facets of federal contracting. It is important to note that a significant number of protests filed with our Office do not reach a decision on the merits because agencies voluntarily take corrective action in response to the protest rather than defend the protest on the merits.

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USFCR

JANUARY 14, 2025

Documentation Requirements: Gather necessary documents, including your DUNS number, CAGE code, and proof of insurance. Verify Documents: Double-check that all required documents are accurate and current. Verify Documents: Double-check that all required documents are accurate and current.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The importance of inclusion There are 1.5 Not all citizens have the same ability to identify and digest the information that’s important to them, so councils have to invest in alternative versions of documents in a format known as Easy Read. An average document of five pages would take two weeks to adapt, and cost £500 ($750).

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Capital Edge Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2024

Importance of maintaining compliance with DCAA for government contracts. While the term " DCAA-approved accounting system " is commonly used, it’s important to clarify that, according to the DCAA, there is no officially "approved" accounting system. Why is a DCAA Approved Accounting System Important?

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 25, 2023

By law, all employers are required to confirm the work eligibility of newly hired employees by checking their documents through a process that people may in here refer to as the I-9 process. Rebecca Gambler Yes, this is a really important point from our report, Tom. Rebecca Gambler That’s right, Tom.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A recent OHA decision reminds us that it’s important to show and tell the SBA how a company seeking certification is meeting the SBA’s requirements for control of a socioeconomic company. Signatures on documents are valid electronic signatures, and SBA rules allow for such signatures. 128.302(d).

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Select GCR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This article will explore what is prime contractor roles, responsibilities, and the importance of prime contractors in government projects. Importance in Government Projects The successful realization of federal contracts greatly depends on prime contractors fulfilling their contractual obligations.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The agency said it did not comment on documents obtained through public records requests. After FedScoop pointed out that the use case has been discussed publicly and in other public documents, the agency again said it declined to comment. Obviously you can see the efficiency rationale for them using a tool like this,” Patel said. “I

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Capital Edge Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Importance of maintaining compliance with DCAA for government contracts. While the term " DCAA-approved accounting system " is commonly used, its important to clarify that, according to the DCAA, there is no officially "approved" accounting system. Why is a DCAA Approved Accounting System Important?

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Accountability Internal Control Government Contracts Consulting 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 6, 2024

We set out to use AI to label sentences in procurement documents that match green criteria (that is, criteria designed to reduce the environmental impact of a purchase). We chose to focus initially on furniture purchases as governments buy products in this category regularly and their green requirements are well documented.

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Select GCR

MARCH 19, 2024

These businesses are important because they bring the unique skills and experiences gained during military service into the business world. At Select GCR, we understand the importance of obtaining VOSB certification for your business, and we’re here to seamlessly guide you through the entire process.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Dion Turner, the supervisory contracting officer at the Interior Department, said while CPARS can be somewhat subjective based on the contracting officer, documentation is key to ensuring fair evaluations. What’s not subjective is your documentation and what you did performing under that contract.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 15, 2024

But it’s important not to confuse ease of use with effortless deployment. In other words, you’ll need to do important groundwork before you produce results. This makes it important to monitor reliability and detect when data may be drifting, which triggers the need for retraining.

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FedScoop

MARCH 15, 2024

When pressed by the GAO on how agencies could overcome technical challenges and pare down backlogs, some officials pointed to governmentwide adoption of technology upgrades, ensuring that FOIA offices use identical systems to streamline document review and general coordination.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

“Since its launch, DOJNet has served as the Department’s primary intranet providing a centralized location for news and announcements, access to shared documents and databases, calendars and scheduling tools, and training resources,” the posting states.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I think it’s important for all sorts of agencies whose work affects the rights and safety of the public,” said Heydari, a Vanderbilt University law professor who researches policing technologies and AI’s impact on the criminal justice system. “If

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Bridging the digital divide: Implementing open procurement for effective digital transformation Digital transformation is arguably the most important administrative undertaking of governments around the world. This involves breaking down larger projects into smaller, more manageable components and using iterative development processes.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 26, 2024

And so I just wanted to give you a little bit of context and an example of why it’s important to have full year appropriations. And so is the government staff to do all of this additional work, this documentation requirement that’s written into this rule. And we think it’s very important for the U.S.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 11, 2024

So our goal with the implementation plan is to really outline some of the key areas that are important, and that we within Industrial Base Policy have control over. Promoting industrial careers early is important to confront negative stereotypes and increase visibility.” This helps bring that focus,” he said.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Expect a lengthy document The CMMC rule won’t make for light reading. Travis said he expects the rule will be in the “hundreds of pages” when you factor in supporting documents. The rule and other supporting documents could also shed more light on DoD’s plan for eventually implementing the requirements.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For whistleblower advocates, the documents provided by FWS continue to tell a story of untapped potential. Wildlife Whistleblower Success Stories The FOIA documents provided to WNN tell numerous whistleblower success stories. The documents demonstrate that whistleblowers are critical for effective enforcement,” says Kohn.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 15, 2024

The documents do not show the results of the investigations or which countries the pings were from. The documents were obtained through a public records request for reports about lost or internationally carried devices from the past three years, as well as for other information explaining rules for mobile device security abroad.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 9, 2024

But I do think an important piece of this is that the VA contracting officers, there is already priority consideration given to veteran owned and service disabled veteran owned businesses that have been certified by the Small Business Administration. In meeting those goals, both of those priorities are listed and documented in the process.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 16, 2024

A 2021 study by White & Case and Queen Mary University of London indicated that 49% of arbitration practitioners never or rarely employ AI tools such as data analytics or technology-assisted document review. AI extends beyond the mere document review. According to another study , the numbers remained on a similar level in 2023.

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The CGP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the past, FAS did, in fact, post operational policy documents, essentially providing the public, including its industry partners, with a virtual library of the guidance governing and shaping contract administration and management across the organization. Currently, operational policy guidance is not posted for the public.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Pollack said once the working group completed the initial draft, the OPM policy office approved the document, and then the HR LOB posted it on the OMB max.gov site to gather further comments. Pollack said what comes from that are these final standards, which is a living document and will be updated over time.

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It contains some important insights for how GAO bid protest numbers have changed from prior years. One important point about the GAO bid protest process: GAO met its 100-day deadline to process a bid protest in all cases. This report is GAO’s summary of bid protests for the previous fiscal year.

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