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Welcoming Dr. Ezgi Uysal to the PurpLE Project

Bestek Procurement

We are pleased to welcome from 1st January 2025 Dr. Ezgi Uysal as a Post-Doctoral Fellow on our Purchase Power Sustainable Public Procurement through Private Law Enforcement (PurpLE) Project. Her work focuses on public procurement, contract law, and sustainability.

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Federated Wireless Providing 5G to Improve Efficiency at Marine Corps Logistics Hub

ExecutiveBiz

Federated Wireless has secured a contract valued at over $6 million to deploy its private 5G network to the Marine Corps Logistics Commands logistics hub in Albany, Georgia. The company said Tuesday that work on the 42-month sustainment contract already started in November.

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FEMA to Recompete Operations Sustainment & Enhancement Support Contract

GovCon Wire

The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to launch a competition for a follow-on contract to continue providing operations portfolio sustainment and enhancement support to help keep FEMA’s information systems available and operational.

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

What is Smart Public Procurement? Smart public procurement refers to making optimal decisions to minimize waste and enhance the quality, efficiency and sustainability of public spending when purchasing and contracting goods, works and services.

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

Telles.eu

After the first two entries ( here and here ) of a more general nature, this one will be focused on contract specific critiques, in particular food procurement (contract types 9 and 15). Pigs are reared in similar ways both in the Alentejo and Andalusia, so from an actual sustainability point of view, the product is equivalent.

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Government Claim Appeals Nuggets from the ASBCA and CBCA 2023 Annual Reports

SmallGovCon

The CBCA however states that under the Contract Disputes Act (“CDA”), its jurisdiction is limited to contracts with an executive agency, and FEMA (the executive agency here) was not a party to the contract between PERPA and the contractor. Of those, 88 were sustained, 44 were denied, and 243 were dismissed.

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Bid Protest Hub – November 2023

Government Contracts & Investigations

Since the beginning of Fiscal Year 2024, the Government Accountability Office has published 35 decisions, but only two of which resulted in decisions sustaining the challenge. The GAO “Effectiveness rate” includes sustained cases and those for which the agency took corrective action and reflects a higher percentage of success for protesters.

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