Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Our next episode will cover FAR Part 36 (Construction and Architect-Engineer Contracts), Part 37 (Service Contracting), Part 41 (Acquisition of Utility Services), and Part 48 (Value Engineering)! Contracting officers are required to procure architect-engineer services under FAR Part 15 negotiation procedures. FAR 36.204.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate’s National Collaborative Procurement Division (NCPD) administers the Scottish national collaborative frameworks and contracts for the whole of the Scottish Public Sector, as well as agreements that can be accessed by central government organisations of the Scottish Government.

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. In partnership with industry, public safety practitioners and standards development organizations, DHS provides policy and guidance to enable procurement of land mobile radio solutions by public safety practitioners.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

The Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) gives contracting officers significant flexibility in selecting the procurement method they choose to use. Five days later, the Corps advised Great Lakes that it was changing the method of procurement from IFB to RFP (negotiated procurement). In Great Lakes Dredge & Drydock Co.,

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Bidding Procurement E-procurement Negotiation 52

FedInsider

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Featured Experts: LT COL Benjamin Pimentel × LT COL Benjamin Pimentel USMC, FutureG, OUSD(R&E) Lieutenant Colonel Pimentel entered the Marine Corps in May 2007 through the United States Naval Academy. His personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with gold star.

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aptac

JUNE 22, 2018

use the same company name, address, numbers, e-mail and web addresses). See below for information on federal agencies (like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers) as well as for state and local agencies in Texas and Florida. This will make it easier for government agencies to cross check your information.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. Mr. James has a broad background in network and systems engineering, information security, operations and service delivery. In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 50 minutes equals 1 CPE. Government.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We may be approaching such a moment in the federal procurement landscape, when changes that were in the works for years converge and create significant shifts in what seems like the blink of an eye. The tectonic procurement plates have been shifting for years as multiple federal procurement vehicles are taking the next step in their evolution.

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Procurement E-procurement Leadership Data 59

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

What does Procurement mean? An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis. What is Direct Procurement?

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 18, 2024

Some good takeaways are below: Alan E. CBCA continued, clarifying that a “suretyship arrangement is not a contract for the procurement of good or services” and would not be seen as a procurement contract under CDA. Fricke Memorials, Inc. Department of Veterans Affairs , CBCA 7352, et al.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most of these protests involved interpretation of procurement law, which may be the reason why the protesters chose to pursue their protest in Court rather than at the GAO. 5] In this case, the procurement had two phases. Here is a brief summary of the other successful protests before the Court and what made them victorious.

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ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

Invoice to Pay sits at the end of a Procurement process that starts with a need, moves through selecting and contracting with a supplier and ends with delivery of goods or services. . At each step of this Procurement process, data is gathered, suppliers are onboarded, and deliveries are accepted. Invoice to Pay from Ivalua.

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Supplier E-procurement Accountability Networking 52

ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

At the heart of every procurement process is the Accounts Payable team and our AP Automation software module has been built to support these skilled workers. This allows any content from the invoice, the supplier, order, receipt or the contract to guide the matching engine and improve straight-through process rates.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Challenge : The City of Des Moines in Iowa wanted to leverage procurement to improve equity and sustainability, but knew its current procurement processes and tools were insufficient. City employees are now able to collaborate on procurement more efficiently, and better plan and track their aspirations around equity and sustainability.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

PKP Energetyka, launched the implementation of Ivalua’s state-of-the-art Procurement and Sourcing solution with the participation of OptiBuy. Paris, France – 15 th January, 2019 – PKP Energetyka is a leader in the construction and maintenance of contact line systems as well as railway electrical power engineering in Poland.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 30, 2024

The construction, engineering and energy sectors alone accounted for over 40% of these cases. However, it is likely that energy transition-related construction and engineering disputes are generally on the rise as investors aim to capitalize on subsidies and commence construction of new CCUS projects.

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Engineering Capacity E-procurement Networking 52

FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. He led a team that developed a search engine function for people using census data and working to solve discoverability issues. In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 50 minutes equals 1 CPE. A native of St. Navy for six years.

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Engineering Data Innovation Transportation 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Until then, users were either experts, engineers or IT specialists. Intuitive” is a notion that comes from our experience with B2C applications, whether on e-commerce sites or using mobile applications that supply content. History of the user experience: ( read this article in French ). Why is this important? .

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Procurement E-catalogue E-procurement Supplier 40

FedInsider

APRIL 22, 2024

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. In that role, he oversees a program portfolio that includes Procurement Services, Business Service Center, and Project Management Office. In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 50 minutes equals 1 CPE.

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Public Contracting Institute

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

South Dade submitted a proposal for a Blanket Purchase Agreement (“BPA”) under a General Services Administration (“GSA”) solicitation for facilities engineering, operations and related services at 14 locations in Alabama. The protester’s assertion that the agency used risk as an unstated evaluation factor was dismissed by the GAO.

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FedInsider

APRIL 22, 2024

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. He currently leads a growing team of over 450 data scientists, engineers, consultants and domain experts. He gravitated towards software engineering and was involved in a couple of software start-ups prior to joining the Consulting industry.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Correspondingly, it also will increase competition and access to commercial services, solutions, and products by eliminating the significant variations in the application of the key MAS procurement rules across the program, all to the benefits of customer agencies, GSA, and industry partners.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This, in turn, opens the door to powerful analytics engines and AI-fueled applications that can answer increasingly complex questions by pulling data from more than one source or transaction. Given these needs, let’s think back to the current state of public procurement technology. Frankly, they are struggling.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 19, 2024

At the heart of the initiative lies the Prosper Africa Tech for Trade Alliance , a collaboration uniting leading American and African tech companies behind the mission of accelerating e-commerce and digital trade in Africa. This effort focused on enabling the deployment of Choppies’ state-of-the-art Farmer’s app across its supplier network.

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Public Private Partnership Inventory E-procurement Supply Chain 69

American City & Country

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“This is an issue that has been prevalent for a very long time for the city of Victorville and not only the city of Victorville, but also for the county of San Bernardino and the town of Apple Valley, and even some of the residents of the city of Hespiria,” says Harry Mayo, senior civil engineer for the city of Victorville. did the work.

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Engineering Transportation Transportation E-procurement 58

Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

34] And DFARS 252.216-7000(e) gives the Contracting Officer the option of terminating the cost-increase-impacted portion of the contract/order. [35] However, “[CICA sets forth no standard for determining when modification of an existing contract requires a new competition or falls within the scope of the original competitive procurement.” [57]

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Procurement Notes

JUNE 15, 2021

13] However, to be clear, the predicate for this being the case is that the procurement must rely upon the debriefing provisions of FAR Subpart 15.5—such 15] Not For All Procurements Just as important as knowing how to get a required debriefing is discerning what is not a required debriefing. 2305(b)(6)(A) and 41 U.S.C.

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 50 minutes equals 1 CPE. Morton assumed her current duties in July 2016 as Deputy Chief Veterans Experience Officer, Veterans Experience Office (VEO), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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Procurement Notes

JULY 28, 2021

Jay Blindauer Bid protests are crucial to the proper functioning of the procurement system. And the CO has a Supervisory CO, Chief of the Contracting Office (“CoCO”), or Head of Contracting Activity (“HCA”) who needs the CO to finish the award so the CO can move on to the next procurement. Break out the champagne.

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Bidding E-procurement Procurement Evaluation 40

The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 1, 2024

have adequate accounting systems) Management & Advisory Services 829 115 Technical & Engineering Services 816 119 Intelligence Services 241 35 Research & Development Services 219 53 Logistics Services 160 31 Facilities Services 141 0 Environmental Services 87 8 A complete listing of all companies selected for award is posted on SAM.gov.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Effective communication between government officials and industry partners is of paramount importance in fostering a thriving procurement landscape. The comments herein do not necessarily reflect the views of The Coalition for Government Procurement. government should be careful in its procurement and use of these tools.

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In addition to the bright-line violation of the ASO exception, this language is modeled on the Architect-Engineering (A&E) Service acquisition process. [7] 7] In the A&E process, all best suited submissions are “selected” and ranked. 8] The issue with utilizing the A&E-like process in the FAR 8.4

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

OMB Aims to Increase Small Disadvantaged Business Spending in FY24 On October 25, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo informing agencies of Federal goals to award 13 percent of Federal procurement dollars to small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs) in fiscal year (FY) 2024. in the Federal marketplace.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Kigali is the center of Africa’s public procurement community this week. In time for this year’s Africa Public Procurement Network conference, hosted by Rwanda’s Public Procurement Authority (RPPA), the agency has developed a new open contracting portal that allows anyone to access data on government contracts dating back to 2016.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 6, 2025

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. Also serving as a Senior Data Engineer at NOAAs Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, NJ Before joining NOAA Mr. Indiviglio was a Senior Research Associate at Cornell Universitys Weill Medical College and a Director of IT services in Columbia Universitys Department of Pharmacology.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. She is a 1993 graduate of Spelman College with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, where she was a NASA Women in Science and Engineering Scholar. Patrick received her Juris Doctorate in 1996, from the Howard University School of Law.

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GovSpend

MARCH 21, 2025

Analyzing the top federal agencies that allocated contracts to WOSBs and comparing these allocations to the total awards at each agency allows us to get a more comprehensive understanding of an agencys contracting practices with WOSBs. The US SBA maintains a list of industries that are eligible under the WOSB program.

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