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Graduated pricing mechanism guidance: CPN 3/2024

Scottish Government Procurement

We have published a Construction Policy Note (CPN) to provide notification of new guidance which details an alternative method of determining the price score in tender assessments – the Graduated Pricing Mechanism (GPM). The principle is that the lowest price is awarded the highest score (i.e. What is the GPM?

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Michael Marzucco Named Amyx Finance VP

GovCon Wire

Michael Marzucco, formerly director of pricing at Amyx, has been named vice president of finance at the Reston, Virginia-based management and information technology services provider. Marzucco started his career

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Astrion Appoints Andrew Benson as Pricing VP, Announces Other Exec Moves

GovCon Wire

Andrew Benson, a nearly two-decade finance and pricing executive in the government contracting industry, was appointed vice president of pricing at Astrion, an Oasis Systems-ERC combination working to addressing cybersecurity, mission support, systems engineering and digital challenges across the defense, space and government sectors.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

This undermines business confidence, leading to low competition and higher prices for goods and services. This made it possible for the Committee of Internal Public Audit of the Ministry of Finance (CIPA) to block attempts to conduct single-source procurement, without proper justification, even at the procurement planning stage.

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GSA aims to make buying SaaS easier through new policy

Federal News Network

Koses wrote advance payment is a specific type of contract financing method where payments are made prior to delivery or completion of the product or a service. This move should increase competition and drive better pricing. GSA contracting officers have been asked whether such upfront payment is considered an advance payment.

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Price Reasonability in the New Public Procurement Law

BLP

Through the official letter MH-DCoP-OF-0458-2023 of the Public Procurement Directorate of the Ministry of Finance, an interpretation has been made of Article 44 of the Regulations to the new Public Procurement Law regarding the obligation of the Administration to conduc t market research.

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Economy and finance ministries in the face of climate change: 7 advancements in the green fiscal agenda

Inter-American Development Bank

There is no turning back now, the ministries of economy and finance are at the heart of climate action. What are finance ministries doing and discussing to advance green fiscal management? In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the development of these strategies, with around e 40 worldwide.

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