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As the Acquisition World Turns: OFPP turns heat up on primes

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Of the protests resolved on the merits during fiscal year 2024, our Office sustained 16 percent of those protests. The shipping addresses vary, but are typically commercial addresses accessible by the public, such as short-term storage companies, warehouses or freight forwarders. When the U.S.-based

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DecisionPoint Secures TRANSCOM Contract to Support GFM System

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Transportation Command has awarded DecisionPoint a $30 million contract to provide Global Freight Management, or GFM, system sustainment, enhancements and cloud-native refactoring services to the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command.

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The Benefits of Onshore Supply Chains

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Factors such as longer supply chains and reliance on long-distance shipping and freight operations can create big problems when disruptions, such as the Coronavirus pandemic, come about. . This gives you greater control over the details involved in your supply chain. Potential Cost Savings in Labor Production.

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3 Ways to Drive Value Through Supplier Diversity

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Sourcing optimization technology , once reserved for complex categories such as freight, has been simplified and can be found embedded in leading sourcing technologies. Leverage it to optimize among procurement’s growing list of objectives, from cost to sustainability to diversity.

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

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For significant inflation, especially over a sustained time period where there may be multiple adjustments, the superior approach seems to be an Agency-designed clause which relies upon a cost index. ]” [26] I take this as an implied acknowledgment that, generally, FAR 52.216-4 is suited to minor, not major, cost fluctuations.