Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JUNE 22, 2017

Kitsap Transit Position: Purchasing Specialist Location: Bremerton, Washington Closing Date: Friday, June 30, 2017 at 4:00 pm Salary: $22.29 - $29.98 This position also prepares resolutions with applicable supporting documentation for the Board of Commissioners’ review and approval.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When local governments purchase technology, it’s crucial they understand the unique constraints and responsibilities they face. Here are a few more skills Cunningham feels belong on the IT purchasing team: project management, financial analysis and communication skills.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Welcome back to the Cost Corner, where we provide practical insight into the complex cost and pricing requirements that apply to Government Contractors. 3] TINA defines cost or pricing data to mean all facts that, as of the relevant date, a prudent buyer or seller would reasonably expect to affect price negotiations significantly. [4]

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Inflationary pressures can cause frustration levels among suppliers due to increased costs or reduced demand from customers, particularly when it comes to repeated orders or fixed pricing contracts. This could include negotiating more favorable terms with suppliers or renegotiating existing contracts to ensure that prices remain competitive.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

This report encouraged governments big and small to improve the “environment content” of their purchasing policies. As environmental issues have become more important to governments and administrations within the last few decades, it has gotten easier to identify ways to leverage purchasing to support these goals.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 14, 2025

The VA has made steady and significant progress in the management and operation of its prime vendor distribution contract and Supply Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) for the Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor (MSPV) program. These products represent higher volume items that are purchased by medical treatment facilities across the VA.

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JANUARY 9, 2024

As a procurement professional one of your main objectives will be achieving value for money on purchases. One way to reach this objective is to focus on the cost of acquisition rather than the price of acquisition. Price and cost are often terms that are used interchangeably but in reality, the terms are quite different.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. This revelation motivated him to bring more transparency to government purchasing.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The district recently used cooperative purchasing to enhance its school environment with outdoor seating areas—a move that reflects both the district’s financial responsibility and focus on student well-being. Why Cooperative Purchasing?

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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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Redstone Government Consulting

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

If you are selling products/services under FAR 15 based contracts or subcontracts, submitting certified cost and pricing data and documenting other accounting and purchasing requirements that come along with it, when the products/services technically meet the definition of commercial under the FAR – it may be time to rethink your approach.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As such, the fact that the Army received any work during October 2013 obligated it to pay the full contract price for that month. .” In addition, the Antideficiency Act also might restrict an agencys ability to obligate new funds under existing contracts.

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GovCon Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

million blanket purchase agreement to provide Red Hat software licenses for on-premises and cloud environments. The Department of Defense said Tuesday the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific in San Diego awarded the firm-fixed-price

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

OMNIA Partners combines the purchasing power of its members to enable better pricing and service levels from suppliers, increasing an organization’s buying power and accelerating the time to savings. OMNIA Partners is the largest and most experienced purchasing organization for public and private sector procurement.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contract ceiling and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to increase in 2025. Here are few of the biggest changes on tap: Micro-purchase threshold would increase to $15,000 from $10,000. In a proposed rule from Nov. million from $4.5

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In addition to the initial purchase price, the deal has a potential earn-out of up to $250 million, payable in 2027 and subject to J&J meeting certain performance thresholds, the Austin, Texas-based mission support services provider said Monday.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

So the Rule of Two requires federal agencies to set aside procurements for small businesses where there’s a reasonable expectation that at least two small businesses will be able to submit offers at fair market prices and otherwise competitive in terms of quality and delivery. Tom Temin: And that goes back to the 1980s, right?

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 19, 2024

The Buy American Act “[r]estricts the purchase of supplies, that are not domestic end products, for use within the United States” unless an exception applies. If the contractor with the lowest priced domestic end product is a small business, the penalty is 30%. However, this law does not actually prohibit the acquisition of non-U.S.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

million to settle allegations that it misrepresented their commercial pricing practices and overcharged the government on VMware software products and related services purchased under the General Services Administration schedule. In 2015, the company and VMWare agreed to pay a fine of $75.5

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 24, 2025

Embrace dynamic pricing models that leverage competition from the commercial market. There simply needs to be greater flexibility in pricing to meet customer demand across the federal market. Static pricing ultimately hinders competition and reduces value for customer agencies.

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Redstone Government Consulting

JUNE 13, 2024

Submitting data to the government, certified or not, carries significant risks, making compliance with FAR/DFARS essential.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Case studies: In Colombia , rather than the government trying to document and standardize all possible technologies, the framework agreements created for the IT sector link directly to the providers’ public web pages, which list all of their services and prices. Purchased systems need to replace or work within existing systems.

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FedScoop

MAY 15, 2024

And all it does is that any kind of contract or [blanket purchase agreement] led against the GSA schedule, cloud special item number, is firm fixed price.” “GSA has stepped in and created this special ordering procedure,” Jentsch said during the event.

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A Blanket Purchase Agreement (“BPA”) is a “simplified method filling anticipated repetitive needs for supplies or services by establishing ‘charge accounts’ with qualified sources of supply. BPA’s may only be used for purchases that are otherwise authorized by law or regulation. FAR 13.303-1(a). Crewzers Fire Crew Transp.,

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We generally negotiated those pricing and terms and conditions with our contracting officers. The cool thing too, is that we used to run separately a pricing compliance report and we’re actually running this report before the vendors even submit their modification.” And so we relaxed that to one process.

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Federal News Network

JULY 12, 2024

The BAA, however, is a price evaluation preference, which means if the price of a Chinese product is low enough, the federal government will buy that product. For large business offerors, the price preference added to non-domestic offers is 20%, and for small business offerors, it is 30%.

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Capital Edge Consulting

MAY 10, 2024

Two Quick Ways to Fail DCAA T imekeeping Requirements The federal government is the biggest purchaser of goods and services, so it's important that you have a good grip on your accounting practices. Inadequate recordkeeping can lead to low rankings in an audit or even worse: loss of contract.

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (SBJA), Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 8.405-5, and the setting aside of General Services Administration (GSA) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Schedule Orders ? Schedule contracts provide for an extensive volume of competitive cost/price offerings. agency-specific vehicles—IDVs, GWACs, etc.

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Public Contracting Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (SBJA), Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 8.405-5, and the setting aside of General Services Administration (GSA) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) Schedule Orders? Schedule contracts provide for an extensive volume of competitive cost/price offerings. agency-specific vehicles—IDVs, GWACs, etc.

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ivalua

MARCH 27, 2019

Ivalua’s suite will enable the strengthening of internal collaboration between the various Group Procurement entities around the world by industrializing and improving reliability of the Chemicals Price List Publication processes. With Ivalua, we have a unique and reliable tool to pool all the resources that contribute to making a purchase.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Key Takeaways Understand the unique decision-making dynamics and purchasing policies of government buyers to tailor your offerings and build strong relationships. Government buyers operate under strict purchasing policies designed to ensure accountability and compliance in their procurement processes.

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ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

The Strategic Sourcing modules of Ivalua allow Punch Powertrain buyers to define Purchasing needs collaboratively, consolidate the tendering documents and ease costing by suppliers (cost breakdown files, dialogue with the projects on technical feasibility).

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The best part of these conversations is their delight when they see the consolidated purchasing analytics. They might even haggle over prices if they’re buying a large amount of an item, but the organizer of the market never gets involved in this negotiation. I get to talk with procurement teams about AWS Marketplace daily.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2021

– Spend control through real-time visibility into budget consumption, negotiated prices, preferred suppliers, engagement channels. Think about all the users (requisitioners, approvers) of a P2P process and the amount of time they spend purchasing if the process is inefficient. A typical example is purchase order (PO) updates.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

On February 5, 2025, the Council of the District of Columbia discussed their recent purchase of Salesforce and the hope to transfer data and start using the new software in August of 2025. Spending & POs give you historical purchasing data down to the line item, enabling you to price your services competitively.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Despite the rapid growth of software marketplace usage in recent years, some state and local government (SLG) purchasers are holding back. Myth #2: The prices in the marketplace are much higher than the ones I got quoted by my software vendor AWS Marketplace is a public website, so many software manufacturers choose to post MSRP-like prices.

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PNWC's Government Contracting Update

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The purpose of Section 803 is to deal with the problem when contractors refuse to provide the Government with cost or pricing data to support their proposal prices. Ultimately, contracting officers need to determine that a price is fair and reasonable to the Government, irrespective of how the product or service was priced.

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