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Simplifying Public Sector Procurement: Strategies to Increase Sme Participation

The Procurement School

This article explores practical approaches to streamline public sector procurement processes and focuses on increasing participation from Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The intention is to encourage consideration of ways to simplify and open opportunities for SMEs to efficiently participate in more public procurements.

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Friday Flash 02/09/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Williams, and Mickey Liebner; Mayer Brown Bipartisan, bicameral legislation in the US Congress would mandate the use of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (“NIST”) Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (“Framework”) by federal agencies. We look forward to your participation!

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Friday Flash 02/02/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Williams, and Mickey Liebner; Mayer Brown Bipartisan, bicameral legislation in the US Congress would mandate the use of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (“NIST”) Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (“Framework”) by federal agencies. The guidance does not apply to the Federal Supply Schedule.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

The key red flags include ties between providers and politicians, large contracts that have been broken up into smaller ones to undercut thresholds, and links to prohibited practices. DGCP trained staff on public procurement, risk management, and supplier due diligence. The team continues to add new variables.

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Navy’s journey to new procurement system remains in peril

Federal News Network

And experts said merely withdrawing the technical assessment, which the Navy’s Program Executive Office for Manpower, Logistics and Business Solutions (PEO-MLB) asked for as part of its risk management strategy, doesn’t offset the critical findings. Today, more than 100 contract actions worth more than $1.5

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

GSA Requesting Feedback on Draft Supply Chain Risk Management Questionnaire The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Office of Information Technology Category has developed a supplier assurance questionnaire to gather information regarding cybersecurity supply chain risk management (C-SCRM).

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Friday Flash 04/12/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

The document, officially titled “Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management: A CSF 2.0 The new draft guidance also shifts the focus away from “detecting, analyzing, prioritizing, and handling incidents” to incorporating incident response into overall cybersecurity risk management activities.