This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
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.
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.
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.
To that end, we will be developing new training programs, website resources, whitepapers, 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.
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.
However, its findings are sufficiently worrying as to require a much more robust policy intervention that the proposals in the recently released WhitePaper ‘AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach’ ( for discussion, see here ). None of this features in the recently released WhitePaper ‘AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach’.
This opportunity allows industry to submit whitepapers 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.
Department of Labor (“DoL”), Bureau of Labor Statistics (“BLS”) Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (“CPI-U”). There are four major categories of purchases covered in the CPI-U: food, energy, commodities like cars and clothes, and services like rent and healthcare.” [1] CPI First, consider the U.S. 4] Below shows how the 6.0%
Watch the interview on ABC 7 at 10:30 AM ET or stream it on YouTube via Fed Gov Today: [link] DoD to Fast-Track ATO Process for Software Meritalk reports that DoD is launching a new fast-track acquisition process for purchasing software. DOD Instruction 5205.87 introduces a split process and decision-making approach.
Each procurement will need to be supported by market research and price analysis. The page includes: A whitepaper on exempting commercial acquisitions from burdensome clauses; Detailed GPEL reform tables highlighting issues like contract duplication and MAS inefficiencies; and Draft analyses of several FAR parts.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content