The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

While it aligns with Liberia’s approach, the Model Law places greater emphasis on transparency, the documentation of justification for using restricted bidding, and minimizing disruptions to competition. Solicitation tools typically take the form of standard bidding documents tailored to specific procurement needs.

Procurement 105

Procurement Competitive Bidding Bidding Supplier 105

FedScoop

JULY 25, 2024

“TIGTA’s Office of Investigations review of IRS CSP baseline requirements determined that they omit critical investigative audit trail data elements listed in its Audit Trail Needs document.” The post Tax watchdog says IRS has work to do on Login.gov security controls appeared first on FedScoop.

Impact Assessment 124

Impact Assessment Data Transparency Quality 124

FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Department of Labor is spelling out how artificial intelligence can boost job quality without harming the rights of workers, releasing a roadmap this week that aims to empower workforces in underserved communities as use of the emerging technology proliferates.

Impact Assessment 128

Impact Assessment Transparency Quality Ethics 128

GovLoop

MAY 8, 2024

Make documentation part of your delivery. Treat data as code and use infrastructure as code in development environments and quality assurances phases, in addition to production. You can’t know where the challenges lie or how to prioritize addressing them without fully understanding the situation. Embrace infrastructure as code.

Quality 94

Quality Data IT Management 94

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The National AI Advisory Committee unanimously voted in favor of the findings presented in the Law Enforcement Subcommittee’s 24-page document on the field testing of AI tools, a move that followed approval earlier this summer of three recommendations regarding the practice.

Impact Assessment 119

Impact Assessment Inventory Transparency Quality 119

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The HR Line of Business and Quality Service Management Office completed this year-old effort earlier this summer to update the HR business reference architecture. Pollack said what comes from that are these final standards, which is a living document and will be updated over time.

Management 111

Management Quality Data Import 111

FedScoop

JUNE 26, 2024

Mill said that DISA has been “really vocal” about aligning efforts with the GSA and having both teams work together to develop understanding, confidence and agreement to ensure structure and quality for the product of DISA’s process. The agency, in response, is moving to a machine-readable approach to authorizations and documentation.

Capacity 127

Capacity Import Government Government 127

FedScoop

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Digital Service engineer, the intent is to eliminate any distinction of quality between authorizations and bring the “same high watermark that says, ‘This meets the expectation for reuse across the government.’” Moving documents into machine-readable formats and being as transparent as possible aligns with those plans.

Transparency 122

Transparency Quality Collaboration Government 122

FedScoop

APRIL 12, 2024

“These tools have the potential to lower the barriers and costs of practicing before the office as well as helping law practitioners offer services to their clients with improved quality and efficiency,” the notice states. “As USPTO pointed to word processing software and other computer tools that have generative AI capabilities.

Ethics 131

Ethics Innovation Quality Efficiency 131

SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This lowering can be detrimental in obtaining the quality of professional services needed for adequate contract performance.” However, the documentation NOAA provided apparently said that such an issue was not worthy of further consideration. Under FAR 52.222-46, the agency had to address how such lower pay could affect staffing.

Sustainability 104

Sustainability Evaluation Price Professional Services 104

Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

From late 2019 through 2022, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) issued twenty-one whistleblower awards to individuals who provided high-quality information about wildlife crime. For whistleblower advocates, the documents provided by FWS continue to tell a story of untapped potential.

Utilities 127

Utilities Accountability Quality Networking 127

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The OIG found that CISA planned to “establish the Quality Service Management Office to create an online marketplace so CISA could advertise AIS to potential data producers,” but never made it to launch. The agency said it will deliver recommendations from its findings and communicate changes to participants as needed by July 31, 2025.

Participation 126

Participation Quality Data Evaluation 126

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Federal agencies have increasingly looked to RPA “bots” to offload basic but cumbersome processes to free humans up to focus on higher-quality work. The IRS is looking to shore up the staffing of its robotic processing automation arm, as the program aims to develop and deploy 35 to 50 automations annually for the tax agency.

IT 105

IT Electronics Quality Engineering 105

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).

Strategic Sourcing 98

Strategic Sourcing E-auction Automotive Total Cost of Ownership 98

The CGP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines transparency as “the quality of being in an open way without secrets” and is defined in the Cambridge Business English Dictionary as a “situation in which business and financial activities are done in an open way without secrets, so that people can trust that they are fair and honest.”

Transparency 100

Transparency Negotiation Price Procurement 100

FedScoop

APRIL 17, 2024

For a federal agency charged with administering health insurance programs, upholding quality standards at facilities and enforcing a seemingly countless number of arcane rules , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is especially reliant on institutional knowledge.

Insurance 115

Insurance Management Finance Utilities 115

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.

Collaboration 57

Collaboration E-procurement Tender Bidding 57

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.

Ethics 90

Ethics Data Integration Integrity 90

American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Cooperative purchasing , by combining the needs of many agencies, not only lowers costs but also improves access to quality products and services, simplifies procurement processes, and ensures compliance with regulations. OMNIA Partners checks suppliers to ensure high quality, providing organizations with many options in various categories.

Purchasing 58

Purchasing Procurement IT Quality 58

Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

DLA’s efforts to increase the use of automation in their contracting system include using that information to asses a supplier’s risk and quality score as a necessary validation before making an award. “Over the last few years, we really made a push to automate processes where we can.

Contract 111

Contract Supplier Logistics Efficiency 111

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.

Procurement 138

Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 138

Extract Systems

MARCH 12, 2024

While data accuracy and quality are topics that have always been top of mind for top information officials, errors were often self-contained, only affecting the document with the problem or those mentioned within it. Certain roles, like the CIO’s, have and will always require a focus on data quality.

Data 52

Data Government Government Quality 52

Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JUNE 22, 2017

This position also prepares resolutions with applicable supporting documentation for the Board of Commissioners’ review and approval. This position also prepares resolutions with applicable supporting documentation for the Board of Commissioners’ review and approval.

Purchasing 100

Purchasing Insurance E-procurement Bidding 100

USFCR

AUGUST 7, 2024

His certification in Google Project Management further enhances his ability to manage projects effectively and deliver high-quality documentation. With a strong educational background from Tallahassee Community College and practical experience in various customer-focused roles, Coye brings a fresh perspective to the team.

Project Management 52

Project Management Education Quality Management 52

Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2023

An IG investigation also found members of Teixeira’s unit had wide latitude to access and print classified documents without any oversight. ( But Air Force officials said more than a dozen other personnel – from staff sergeants to a colonel – failed to deal with suspicious behavior leading up to those illegal disclosures.

IT 122

IT Networking Evaluation Data 122

GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Data is the core of the GovSpend value proposition, and increasing data coverage and quality is a top objective. Today we are dramatically improving the overall volumes, quality, and refresh rates of data – and we’re not letting up. It’s rare that a day goes by without a new possibility arising. Any final words?

Data 105

Data Quality Purchasing Transparency 105

GovLoop

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s been pretty fast, and great quality. AI capability built into PowerPoint has improved the quality of training slide decks, too. CGO now produces one-page documents that provide an overview of a legal issue. “To Looking to bring things in house and lower costs, CGO used AI to write the training scripts.

Quality 64

Quality Participation Import Demand 64

FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

Enhancing collaboration Public sector agencies operating worldwide are adopting cloud-based collaboration tools to create a more integrated work environment where documents and projects are easily accessible anytime and on any device.

Collaboration 78

Collaboration Innovation Efficiency Integration 78

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Customers may select the best offer from submitted tenders based on quality, price, and terms thanks to its transparency, equity, and efficiency of the tender process. This method decreases the number of bids to control and evaluate, concentrating on the quality rather than quantity. What is a Tender Document in Construction?

Tender 52

Tender Bidding Bidder Competitive Bidding 52

Select GCR

JULY 9, 2024

An RFI is a formal document issued by an organization for gathering information about the capabilities, products, and services of potential vendors. Read and Understand the RFI Document Thoroughly read the RFI document to understand the requirements, objectives, and specific questions or sections that need to be addressed.

Quality 52

Quality Supplier Evaluation Quality Management 52

Extract Systems

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Quality Assurance (QA) is commonly thought of as one of the final steps in the development cycle prior to release, which makes sense as generally a final round of testing is the last hold before a release goes out. Communication between developers and quality assurance as code is being built is very mutually beneficial as well.

Quality 52

Quality End to End Utilities Efficiency 52

GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 23, 2023

Socially disadvantaged individuals are defined as “those who have been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities.” The regulations outline what it takes for an individual to prove they are socially disadvantaged.

Participation 130

Participation Negotiation Quantity Contract 130

Public Contracting Institute

JULY 12, 2024

Key Areas for Due Diligence: Financial stability Past performance Technical capabilities Compliance history Quality control processes 3. This plan should be a living document, regularly updated as new risks emerge or project circumstances change. It should clearly define roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and performance standards.

Management 52

Management Government Government Quality 52

Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 4, 2024

Former employee, Daniel Kokotajlo, who left OpenAI “due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI,” has confirmed publicly that he had to surrender what would have likely turned out to be a huge sum of money in order to quit without signing the document.

Whistle-blowing 83

Whistle-blowing Quality Leadership Networking 83

GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the culture around data hygiene, the quality of the data, the way we collect it, how we keep it clean.” Use AI to Make More Data Accessible Most agencies have documents that aren’t formatted for databases. But the difficulty of that is you have to be able to accept all types of data. That’s all unstructured data,” Chang said.

Data 98

Data Influencing Quality Engineering 98

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 19, 2024

The steps that follow the architecture are: Data preparation – You start with processing and cleaning the relevant datasets using AWS Glue or by using a custom notebook to safeguard quality input for forecasting. For document translation, you can use the batch API to translate a set of documents.

Data 75

Data Efficiency Demand Import 75

FedScoop

OCTOBER 23, 2023

To help alleviate those issues, the working group recently put out a document with minimum required error code recommendations in hopes that companies start flagging issues in the same way, Smart said. Often that means field service technicians show up to fix something without information about what’s broken, he added.

Participation 105

Participation Transportation Transportation Networking 105