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Commercial Opportunity for the VA Medical Supply Chain 

The Coalition for Government Procurement

For example, the Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) has an opportunity to leverage commercial best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of medical supply logistics in delivering best value healthcare to veterans. Manual orders increase overall costs, undermine compliance, and limit transparency.

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Navigating the 5 Steps of the Procurement Journey Part 2

The Procurement School

The presentation and all questions and answers are posted as an addendum in keeping with the public procurement tenets of open, fair and transparent. To ensure bidders are qualified to provide the required good / service it is recommended they score at or above a minimum technical threshold to proceed to the next evaluation stage.

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Second, the realignment provides an opportunity to increase transparency for customer agencies and industry partners seeking to do business with FAS. The new structure also can enhance transparency with regard to guidance impacting the MAS program. Most DoD assessments were found to take place above a threshold of $111.4

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

Procurement Notes

18] And, for DoD, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (“DFARS”) 216.203-4 limits the use of the FAR EPA clauses to DoD contracts that exceed the simplified acquisition threshold (presently $250,000 with exceptions), and performance is longer than six months. [19] GAO’s competitive prejudice threshold should be similar.

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Responsible AI for mission-based organizations

AWS Public Sector

This approach will help ensure your AI systems are fair, transparent, and secure. Organizations can leverage Guardrails with configurable thresholds to filter hate speech, insults, misconduct, and prompt injection attacks. Transparency Transparency involves the communication from the organization to the users of the ML system.

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Friday Flash 11/03/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Importantly, this process should be transparent, providing all stakeholders, including the public, the opportunity to provide feedback on any proposed revisions. Increasingly, the question for FSS contracting officers is which controls: PAP 2021-05 or the EPA deviations currently in effect?

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Friday Flash 12/13/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

The Unrestricted awardees in the first rolling contract awards process are across six domains: Technical & Engineering; Management & Advisory; Environmental; Logistics; Intelligence Services; and Research & Development. Three years later, CISA published the third edition of Framing Software Component Transparency.