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Commercial Opportunity for the VA Medical Supply Chain 

The Coalition for Government Procurement

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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Want to be a Strategic Sourcing Rising Star? Think New Products.

ivalua

The needs and desires of the purchasing public (business or consumer) quickly evolve and change. Market timing and pricing is a big part of that failure. Let’s start with pricing. This allows you to have flexibility in market pricing and creates various promotional and strategic pricing options.

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Procurement policy spring cleaning checklist

Federal News Network

Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Price Evaluation. Significantly, the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is revising its guidance to contracting officers regarding the evaluation/negotiation of MAS contract pricing. How is that data validated and being used to avoid bias? The world, however, has changed in four decades.

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NITAAC Strategic Priorities for FY22

NIH NITAAC

To that end, we will be developing new training programs, website resources, white papers, blogs, videos and other resources, such as virtual industry days, to support our federal partners and their information technology (IT) missions. Agencies get the same low price regardless of the quantities ordered.

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Procurement Policy Spring Cleaning Checklist

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Price Evaluation. Significantly, the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is revising its guidance to contracting officers regarding the evaluation/negotiation of MAS contract pricing. How is that data validated and being used to avoid bias? The world, however, has changed in four decades.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

However, its findings are sufficiently worrying as to require a much more robust policy intervention that the proposals in the recently released White Paper ‘AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach’ ( for discussion, see here ). None of this features in the recently released White Paper ‘AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach’.

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Friday Flash 02/23/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

This opportunity allows industry to submit white papers at any time that are aligned with one of the DPA’s areas of focus, including sustaining critical production, commercializing research and development investments, and scaling emerging technologies.