Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JUNE 22, 2017

Kitsap Transit Position: Purchasing Specialist Location: Bremerton, Washington Closing Date: Friday, June 30, 2017 at 4:00 pm Salary: $22.29 - $29.98 This position also prepares resolutions with applicable supporting documentation for the Board of Commissioners’ review and approval.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The General Services Administration has released a draft performance work statement for its proposed Ascend Blank Purchase Agreement, marking another step in the agency’s plans to simplify cloud purchasing processes. The original published date is listed as Dec. The response date is Jan.

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Purchasing Professional Services IT Government 101

Federal News Network

MARCH 1, 2024

GSA Chief Information Officer David Shive also says nobody at the agency intentionally misled the contracting officer into approving the purchases. also maintains that the purchase violated the Trade Agreements Act of 1979. also maintains that the purchase violated the Trade Agreements Act of 1979. Deputy IG Robert Erickson Jr.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

This report encouraged governments big and small to improve the “environment content” of their purchasing policies. As environmental issues have become more important to governments and administrations within the last few decades, it has gotten easier to identify ways to leverage purchasing to support these goals.

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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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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Multiple sources confirmed law enforcement agencies closed down the building and removed computers and boxes of documents. Justice says Carahsoft produced 2,650 documents, which “represented only a small fraction of the documents that Carahsoft has confirmed that it has in its possession, custody or control.”

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. Their comments are all published on the site, along with any responses from the procuring entity.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contract ceiling and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to increase in 2025. Several agencies incorporate, or are experimenting with incorporating, a Small Business Participation Commitment Document (SBPCD) into the resulting contract.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 14, 2025

The VA has made steady and significant progress in the management and operation of its prime vendor distribution contract and Supply Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) for the Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor (MSPV) program. These products represent higher volume items that are purchased by medical treatment facilities across the VA.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Treasury Department is gearing up to launch a blanket purchase agreement contract that will source and streamline enterprisewide cybersecurity services for its bureaus and offices. Treasury did not share the value of the contract in the draft documents.

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Redstone Government Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

If you are selling products/services under FAR 15 based contracts or subcontracts, submitting certified cost and pricing data and documenting other accounting and purchasing requirements that come along with it, when the products/services technically meet the definition of commercial under the FAR – it may be time to rethink your approach.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dan Ramish: So if it goes into effect, the rule would require that agencies, when they’re placing an order under an existing IDIQ contract, it would be mandatory for the contracting officer to set aside an award of an order that’s over the micro-purchase threshold.

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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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Procurement Public Procurement Green Public Procurement Tender 132

GovSpend

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At GovSpend, we continuously receive purchase order data with line-item detail from over 30K state and local agencies and public school systems. We’ll also be summarizing SLED and Federal opportunities and RFPs (documents included), allowing users to search across them semantically in addition to the current keyword-based lexical search.

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FedScoop

APRIL 15, 2024

That practice has been frequently criticized by civil rights groups that argue that by purchasing the phone location data from third parties, the government is essentially side-stepping the Fourth Amendment and violating peoples’ privacy. Within DHS, the use of this data has raised alarm bells.

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Data Impact Assessment Purchasing Electronics 145

American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

He adds that his firm can provide key pointers to project managers: “SiteOne is experienced in working with government agencies and departments through the bid process to make sure the correct products and services are sent to the field and with all the required documentation.” Michael Keating is senior editor for American City & County.

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ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

The Strategic Sourcing modules of Ivalua allow Punch Powertrain buyers to define Purchasing needs collaboratively, consolidate the tendering documents and ease costing by suppliers (cost breakdown files, dialogue with the projects on technical feasibility).

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FedScoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

The move comes amid ongoing bipartisan concern about law enforcement agency purchases of peoples’ location data without obtaining a warrant. As part of this policy, the Secret Service also works hand-in-hand with the DHS Privacy Office to determine if/when additional privacy compliance documentation is required. Rand Paul, R-Ky.,

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Data Impact Assessment Purchasing Electronics 140

Select GCR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

government is the largest purchaser in the world, significantly influencing the purchasing landscape. Government agency programs like the GSA Schedules provide long-term contracts, allowing businesses to sell commercial products and services at pre-negotiated prices, simplifying the purchasing process.

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (SBJA), Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 8.405-5, and the setting aside of General Services Administration (GSA) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Schedule Orders ? Purchases among BPA holders are normally rotated between all BPA holders large and small for repetitive needs. The post FAR 8.4

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (SBJA), Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 8.405-5, and the setting aside of General Services Administration (GSA) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Schedule Orders? Purchases among BPA holders are normally rotated between all BPA holders large and small for repetitive needs. The post FAR 8.4

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Purchasing Thresholds Price Accountability 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Case studies: In Colombia , rather than the government trying to document and standardize all possible technologies, the framework agreements created for the IT sector link directly to the providers’ public web pages, which list all of their services and prices. Purchased systems need to replace or work within existing systems.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

We’re also looking at it from a more predictive sense to … foresee a failure before the purchase.” Other AI use cases with the USPS involve documenting legacy code and writing new code, strengthening logistics and transportation networks and using a natural language processing agent to handle customer calls regarding passports.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 31, 2024

And this is despite the fact that in each case the Justice Department observes that at least initially, they were failing to produce documentation at a reasonable rate. Again, the Justice Department points out that in each case, they were initially very slow in document production. Tom Temin We’re speaking with Greg Williams.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It’s not another big governmentwide contract like Alliant 3 or the ASCEND cloud blanket purchase agreement. This one is the second generation of the COMET blanket purchase agreement that is going to be used only by GSA. GSA has their whole IT playbook and it has been developing the document over last five years.

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Bidder Bidding E-procurement Purchasing 103

Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

An investor in a "public benefit" company that provides sensitive software to government agencies and allies sued the business Friday in Delaware Chancery Court, seeking documents on a stock purchase agreement and other moves purportedly made without required consents.

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Purchasing Government Government 52

Federal News Network

JANUARY 24, 2025

Institute a commercial ordering/logistics system at the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical supplies, to take advantage of negotiated pricing under established contracts and reduce patient safety risk due to gray market purchasing and order errors.

Efficiency 52

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Access Board, agencies must meet technical requirements when purchasing information and communication technology products and services. Through the standards issued by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, or the U.S.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

With the help of automated analytical tools, the agency has been able to focus its prevention and control efforts on transactions with the highest risk, and in turn, harness the power of data to institutionalize better purchasing practices among government entities that conduct procurement through the Mercado Publico online platform.

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Procurement E-procurement Tender Purchasing 62

Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

Additionally, NAVWAR also said it mislabeled the document as unclassified, again raising even more questions among observers about how a well-worn process fell apart in so many different places. The spokesperson said NAVWAR is reviewing the document sign-off and release processes.

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Procurement Electronics Contract Evaluation 118

Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

42] Review the purchase order history and the complete buyer’s file ( e.g. , quotes, negotiation summary, correspondence, purchase orders (PO), etc.) 45] If the actual supplier is different from the baseline supplier, assess the risk that the contractor purchased an inferior component ( i.e., product substitution). [46]

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

” Evans said DLA analyzes risk in relation to vendors and the item being purchased, in relation to the price quoted for that item. And then it’s going to be an overlap where we start to update our systems to implement CMMC.”

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Polk County, Texas, home to approximately 53,000 residents, established a dedicated Purchasing and Procurement Department in 2023, spearheaded by Nacole Reeks, the county’s Purchasing and Procurement Coordinator. When asked if the use of OPUS had resolved any of the challenges Reeks was facing, she did not hesitate to say yes.

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Efficiency Procurement Purchasing Supplier 58

GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

From public meeting transcripts discussing planned spending to Bids & RFPs announced to contracts awarded, and finally the actual purchase orders themselves and their individual line items – we endeavor to tell the story behind every government purchase. One specific example is classifying purchase order records.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 11, 2024

Often, people believe these jobs are low-wage, low-skilled, monotonous, and dangerous, and that they are a poor alternative to nonindustrial jobs,” according to the document. “In Officials said they’re also seeking to “destigmatize” careers in the industrial sector.

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Supply Chain Capacity Public Private Partnership Manufacturing 107

Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Further information can be found here: Procurement – publishing, print and design (PPDAS) framework – 2018 – gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Electronic Purchasing Card (ePC) The existing Cat B contract for the Electronic purchasing card is due to expire on 31 July 2024.

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Collaboration E-catalogue Framework Agreement E-procurement 67

The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 24, 2025

Institute a commercial ordering/logistics system at the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical supplies, to take advantage of negotiated pricing under established contracts and reduce patient safety risk due to gray market purchasing and order errors.

Efficiency 40

Efficiency Procurement Government Government 40