Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JUNE 22, 2017

per hour ($46,363 - $62,358 Annually) Benefits: Full-time employees receive a generous benefits package including subsidized medical insurance and fully paid dental insurance for employee and dependents, as well as disability insurance and life insurance.

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The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

The implied outcome is that we are seeking to insure value for taxpayer dollars. A Request for Tender (RFT) is used for low complexity / price only solicitations for MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) such as construction, office equipment and routine maintenance. Determine the Procurement Approach.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 21, 2022

According to Lomba, cybersecurity insurers, which help organizations reduce their liability and financial exposure following a cyber breach, base their pricing and coverage decisions on probabilities and other statistics that agencies also can use. Weighing only price and potential features is shortsighted, he said.

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 4, 2024

This is, in the words of Italy’s diplomacy , “to have secure, stable and predictable supplies at competitive prices for households and businesses, without failing to meet the binding commitment to long-term sustainability…” under the Paris Agreement.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The evaluation can be simple, such as tenders which are price only, or complex which includes technical criteria, pricing and sometimes an interview or demonstration. The pricing evaluation follows the completion of all technical evaluation stages and is usually the easiest to evaluate.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Companies face the cost of redressing the breach, reputational harm, potential declines in share price, and government proceedings. Governments, insurers, and real estate owners will find themselves in more lawsuits concerning responsibility for the impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events and coastal erosion.

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Federal News Network

JULY 10, 2024

This award was for health insurance marketplace and financial management analytics. Before GAO got to a decision there, the agency took corrective action, held exchanges with Cogent and ASG, got revised quotations, and then decided that actually it was going to award to Cogent which had a substantially lower price. Tom Temin All right.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Alberta Motor Association ( AMA ) is a multi-service member-run organization that provides driving education, rewards, roadside assistance, travel, insurance, banking, and many other member-focused services. Their core mission is defined as “protecting what matters most” to members.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 3, 2024

Enforceable through investor-state arbitration, the generous protections provided by these treaties have, in effect, served as a free insurance policy for foreign investors. Regardless of whether this is ethical, is it still solid advice? Relatively few countries sign new treaties that include investor-state arbitration.

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The Procurement School

DECEMBER 19, 2022

insurance, if travel expenses apply, etc.). Consider what vendors need to know to propose a competitive approach and price. Use minimum scores to avoid awarding to vendors with inadequate experience but a low price. To ensure a shared understanding of scope Language used in the solicitation is overly complicated.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 24, 2024

The rapid rise of renewables (as well as EV, which is also reliant on such minerals) has put massive pressure on mineral supplies, exposing projects to sharp price increases and delays. Most notably, rare earth minerals are essential to renewable technologies (such as wind turbines and solar panels).

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Supply Chain Demand Price Insurance 52

Procureware

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Insurance management If you require insurance as part of a pre-qualification process or have a significant number of supplier contracts, look for a system with integrated supplier insurance tracking. Spreadsheets are error-prone and expired insurance represents significant risk.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Insurance : Disputes emerging from changes in the criteria for insuring certain assets along the away. Thus, a growth in the number of arbitrations relating to compliance, insurance, supply chain and a range of disputes focusing on a mix of soft and hard law is to be expected. The last panelist, Ms.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Contractors should track and document any changes in workload to ensure that any increases in scope and associated cost or price adjustments are appropriately reflected in a contract modification. On fixed-price contracts, any recovery from the government will likely depend on whether the contractor is entitled to an equitable adjustment.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 18, 2024

Note the Proposed Rule explicitly allows a third party (such as an Incident Response (“IR”) company, insurance or other service provider, or law firm) to submit reports on behalf of a covered entity, a practice that already occurs in the cyber reporting world and is now explicitly acknowledged here by CISA.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A testament to this is the common contractual provision in Brazil, deeply rooted in the nation’s tumultuous relation with hyperinflation, which stipulates a monetary correction index to adjust prices for inflation. But contracts cannot foresee everything.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

JANUARY 19, 2024

Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government contractors. This is the second article in a multi-part series on the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Cost Principles applicable to contracts with commercial organizations.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

The conference begins with remarks from Christine Harada , Senior Advisor in OMB’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), on the governmentwide Better Contracting Initiative , a four-pronged initiative to ensure that the Federal Government receives optimal terms and prices when purchasing goods and services.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

Particularly, the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (“PCE”) core inflation rate for January 2024 was 2.8%. [30] 33] Importantly, since the inflation high water marks of 2022, mostly what has occurred is disinflation (decrease of the inflation rate), not actual deflation (price decreases). down from 5.5%

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 16, 2024

And we need to get to a point where those can be off the shelf, and so you can start to proliferate the access to the hardware and start to typically reduce down the price instead having to buy lots. And so how can we go capture that in a way that provides economic pricing power? So particularly like for AI training.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Rather than contract a single, large vendor offering the lowest bid price, the public tender aimed to select multiple specialist teams, from multiple vendors, each offering important capabilities and knowledge. They set up a project team to assemble a group of technology industry specialists to drive the project forward.

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Procurement Notes

JULY 28, 2021

And the CO’s protégé, the Contract Specialist, wrote a price analysis that is a modern art masterpiece (it was based on adequate price competition). Postal Service , the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , and nonappropriated fund activities are beyond GAO’s bid protest jurisdiction as established in 31 U.S.C. [§§] 3551-3556.” [27]

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GovCon & Trade

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under FAR 52.222-46, agencies must compare the compensation of incumbent employees to the proposed compensation provided in the other offeror’s proposals to ensure price realism.

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Procureware

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Certifications The original release of ProcureWare supported supplier insurance and diversity certification management. Ranked reverse auction In a standard (English) reverse auction, bidders see the current low price and can submit bids that are lower than other suppliers. Clients can configure the certifications they want to track.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 12, 2024

As climate-related disclosures emerge, such as the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) , and asset owners and insurers consider climate risk impacts for their operations, heat represents a chronic risk to many organizations and activities.

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 13, 2021

FAR Clause 52.243-4 ), including submitting a price adjustment claim and, if necessary, filing a claim appeal. Practically speaking, the contractor’s best opportunity for doing so is in its price proposal submitted in response to a covered solicitation. Is the vaccine mandate enforceable by a prime contractor against a subcontractor?

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Procurement Notes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Price , the Supreme Court stated that “[p]rivate persons, jointly engaged with state officials in the prohibited action, are acting ‘under color’ of law. Price, 383 U.S. 50] It is the term “other person acting under color of law” that is the most interesting. [51] 51] In United States v. 49] See id. at 491-92. [50] 50] 42 U.S.C.

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Procurement Notes

JUNE 5, 2021

101] That increase is to be no less than the percentage increase of the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (“CPI-W”) , and rounded to nearest nickel. . [§] 3502(5).” [58] 58] In turn, a host of Government entities were not required to implement the 2014 minimum wage increase.

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ivalua

MARCH 3, 2020

Despite greater past media attention on pharmaceutical pricing, the single greatest contributor to overall healthcare costs (a whopping 18 percent of the U.S. As a result, there has been growing attention on hospital pricing. Various factors frustrate patients when it comes to hospital pricing.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Despite greater past media attention on pharmaceutical pricing, the single greatest contributor to overall healthcare costs (a whopping 18 percent of the U.S. As a result, there has been growing attention on hospital pricing. Various factors frustrate patients when it comes to hospital pricing.

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