Utrecht University

MARCH 11, 2025

Organised by UUCePP and IOS platform The Transactional State, Bastian Krieger (ZEW Mannheim) presents his research on price-based procurement and innovation.

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WashngtonExec

AUGUST 6, 2024

5, and we want your help finding the most impactful pricing executives. The Pinnacle Awards is an annual program that embodies the WashingtonExec spirit of highlighting successful executives and businesses saving money and fostering innovation for federal clients across the region. For the pricing [.]

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ivalua

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This means companies are under more pressure than ever to innovate at pace. As a result, the role of the supplier has grown in importance – for example, much of the innovation in the aerospace market comes from suppliers rather than traditional aerospace firms. Cost-focused approaches block innovation.

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Federal News Network

MAY 17, 2024

Unfortunately, Schedule contractors now face a long, painful slog negotiating contract pricing at the contract level, instead of relying on competition at the task or delivery order level to provide fair and reasonable pricing.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

But timelines, bureaucratic hurdles, and intricacies of the procurement process prevent the swift adoption of cutting-edge technology and potential for collaboration with innovative organizations that are essential for reforming existing processes. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

Open contracting innovations in Ukraine have since been used to drive down the cost of vital medicines , get better value from the sale of state assets , and improve defense spending. Thats a return on investment of 200:1! 2) Partnerships sustain change Procurement is too vast and complex to transform alone.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Competitive Pricing and Cost Savings Procurement teams are always looking for ways to stay within budget while maximizing the value of their contracts. By utilizing OMNIA Partners, organizations can secure competitive pricing on security and safety solutions without sacrificing quality.

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JANUARY 14, 2025

When thinking about benchmarking the most common area that is reviewed is price, but as we know (and as mentioned in previous blogs) price is not the sole factor. Price forms part of cost, and cost is what we should be benchmarking, therefore in procurement areas such as the following should be regularly checked against standards.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In its search for commercial partners, the city needed to promote competition in a concentrated marketplace, learn more about the latest bike share technology and innovations, and provide better and expanded service at the same or lower budget.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 21, 2024

the Alliance for Digital Innovation threw its support behind the Federal Improvement in Technology Procurement Act ( H.R. 9595, if passed, will facilitate a competitive, flexible procurement environment that encourages innovation, reduces acquisition delays, and creates new opportunities for businesses to enter the federal contracting space.”

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

Navy has awarded Integration Innovation Inc. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract seeks to help the Navy meet its Ready Relevant Learning Content Conversion Aviation training requirements, the Department of a potential five-year, $187.3

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FedScoop

APRIL 1, 2024

For agencies that continue to embrace cloud innovation strategically, this future is closer than many might think. Instead, agencies should reconsider opting for fixed-price, fixed- timeframe contracts. Adopting modular components with fixed prices benefits both government agencies and service providers.

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ivalua

JANUARY 29, 2020

No organisation does everything itself, and whether we’re looking at buying raw materials, components, innovative technology, or sourcing the best in marketing or professional services, the whole process of engaging and working with suppliers must reflect this need for speed and agility. .

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Innovation is key in achieving sustainability goals across the public and private sector. While using recycled fuels lowers their emissions, Stockholm Exergi knows there’s more to innovate. Read this post in Finnish. Read ths post in Swedish. Käytä muutama minuutti kertoaksesi kokemuksestasi AWS Public Sector -blogista tässä kyselyssä.

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Public Contracting Institute

JUNE 5, 2024

Offerors are sometimes distressed when an agency selects a significantly higher priced, higher technically rated proposal in a best value determination. Jacobs protested that the agency had failed to reasonably justify the award at a $37 million (32 percent) price premium. Bulova Techs, LLC, B-281384, Feb.

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FedScoop

MAY 15, 2024

During the Scoop News Group-produced Amazon Web Services Innovate Day event, Skip Jentsch, cloud products manager for GSA, shared that the agency is focused on “new” special ordering procedures implemented for procuring cloud computing on a consumption basis. “GSA

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 21, 2024

SBA is also contemplating eliminating the HUBZone price evaluation preference to HUBZone joint ventures formed under the Mentor-Protégé Program. Currently, this preference allows a certified HUBZone small business concern (including a HUBZone joint venture) to have a 10% price preference when competing in a full and open competition.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 27, 2024

Celeste also shares his observations on the diverge between government unique requirements and the commercial market and what it means for competition, pricing, and innovation. Finally, Celeste discusses opportunities for small business and the critical role they play in the federal market.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 26, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and inspiration dominated today’s AWS Summit Washington, DC keynote. AWS also announced a $3 million philanthropic commitment to three nonprofit organizations who are mission-driven innovators for pediatric and children’s causes. Learn more about the Impact Initiative and get started.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, are trying to correct a misunderstanding of congressional intent when it comes to how and when agencies should consider price when reviewing proposals for contracts.

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

ECo Talks , which are presented by Georgetown’s Earth Commons, “bring together experts, thought leaders, and innovators to explore the most pressing challenges facing our environment and to showcase transformative initiatives and research shaping our world.

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Select GCR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

HUBZone-certified businesses not only gain eligibility for set-aside contracts but also receive a 10% price evaluation preference in full and open contract competitions. Challenge.gov Challenge.gov hosts competitions and prize challenges where small businesses can showcase their innovative solutions to meet federal agency needs.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The AWS framework helps EdTechs improve cost efficiency, assess functionality expansion, and grow market share, by aligning pricing with solution value to students and institutions. At AWS, we believe that optimizing IT costs (including cloud) helps unlock budget to invest in more innovation. Review your sales pricing model.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

With pre-approved products, GSA MAS provides agencies the following: Faster acquisitions by eliminating costly and time-consuming RFPs Pre-qualified contractors government can connect with Pre-negotiated terms and conditions, and competitive prices.

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ivalua

AUGUST 25, 2016

Johnston best of luck in her next price negotiation with a “proven enterprise technology company.” This is an open post to all those corporate types out there who pretend to be interested in “innovative and disruptive” enterprise technologies: please stop wasting our time. I sincerely wish Ms.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Set against the vibrant backdrop of Berlin, the conference brought together distinguished practitioners and experts from across the globe to explore the latest trends, challenges, and innovations in international arbitration. A Morning Coffee Debate: Will Diversity Kill the Party-appointed Arbitrator?

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This is my 11th year participating in re:Invent and I continue to be awestruck by the innovative ideas and value that AWS Partners bring to our customers. AWS Partners are already scaling innovation for citizen services rapidly through AWS generative AI services. Watch a recording of this session.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Businesses more reliant than ever on suppliers as the pace of innovation increases, but two-thirds view their relationships as primarily transactional. This comes at a time when pressure is growing on businesses to develop new, innovative products, faster and at a lower cost.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 9, 2024

This TDR expansion is another positive step forward for GSA as it seeks to modernize the program by creating a market-centric framework that enhances competition, value, and innovation. The performance results showed that contract level pricing was better under TDR than under Most Favored Customer (MFC) pricing.

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ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Ultimately, the buyer can efficiently compare offers and select the optimal supplier(s) according to a best value/best price logic or lower total cost of ownership. It is a true boost to efficiency and competitiveness in innovative sectors of the automotive industry to be able to rely on the expertise of experienced partners.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

We’re definitely are looking at innovation from places like the Homeland Security Department’s Procurement Innovation Lab (PIL) and what they have,” MacGillis said. “We’re The digital capabilities office also released a request for information (RFI) earlier this year as another approach to collecting feedback from industry.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 26, 2024

Riverside Research Institute will provide the Defense Innovation Unit with engineering and technical support services under a $26.2 million hybrid firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials contract from Washington Headquarters Services.

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Gemini Technical Services Joint Venture will provide support to the Space Training and Readiness Command under the Innovation, Integration and Information Support contract awarded by the U.S.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This year’s tables include: November 20: GSA MAS PMO GSA Pricing Tools Medical/Surgical Supply BPAs SAM.gov PMO VA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) November 21: VA FSS Community Care Network (CCN) View the agendas for more details. Requests for transparent pricing across the AI lifecycle. We discuss the first two goals below.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“Carahsoft, for example, provides infrastructure at reasonable cost to have all contract vehicles that allows the government to buy things especially from innovative companies,” she said. They do a great service and provide innovation.” Carahsoft does this at an extremely low margin compared to going through a big systems integrator.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The release includes a broad set of innovations to help organizations better manage their spend and suppliers. Specific release highlights include: Supplier Management Innovations: . Sourcing Innovations: . Ivalua streamlines the process of building, quoting, and analyzing supplier proposals.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 4, 2024

I think most government contractors have contracts that are negotiated and the prices are negotiated upfront, and then they have to adhere to those prices over the course of the entire five-to-10 year contract. Not the case if they’re just commercial, even if it’s a brand new type of innovative product.

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