GovCon Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to procure uranium enrichment services to help establish a domestic supply chain of high-assay low-enriched uranium used for deploying advanced nuclear reactors. The Department of Energy has begun soliciting proposals for a potential 10-year, $2.7

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 12, 2024

million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from NASA for safety and mission assurance, audits, assessments and analysis services. KBR‘s government services business unit has secured a potential five-year, $75.3

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Federal News Network

JUNE 4, 2024

And at the same time, we’re seeing this growing swell of compliance costs, whether it be cybersecurity, increasing audits, supply chain regulations that are all creating an environment where doing business with the federal market is actually getting more expensive and the barriers are going up.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 30, 2024

The company said Monday it will provide life support, equipment readiness, training and supply chain tools to the U.S. Army under the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Army Northern Command and European Command.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How I got into procurement My peers all have a 'story' about how they got into procurement without knowing they were actually working in a Supply Chain Management (SCM) role. ​I've never met anyone who studied supply chain management at university because they knew that's what they wanted to do.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The new FAR clauses implementing these changes will apply to all contracts, including contracts below the simplified acquisition threshold (SAT), contracts or orders for commercial products or services (including commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) items), and orders under indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracting vehicles.

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ivalua

JUNE 10, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the fact that many supply chains remain inadequately prepared for a crisis. Supply chain management and procurement sit poised on the frontlines of managing global supply risks for their brands. Today’s supply chain managers deal with higher financial risks than ever before.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MARCH 15, 2024

Such criteria include an assessment of the “scale and severity of the suspected forced labour” as well as the “quantity or volume or products placed or made available on the Union market.” This is in contrast to the current US approach, where entire products are detained.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

Principle is of another small business unless those products are not available in sufficient quantities. Or they’re small businesses or providing additional value in this process in the supply chain to drive that base. Yes, the non-manufacturing rule permits the small business set asides to provide products.

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

First of all, we must identify the suppliers with the highest emissions either by physical quantity or amounts spent. C Supply Chain Leaders” and digital platforms such as “CDP Supply Chain”, for example, are proving helpful in reducing supplier overwhelm and advancing efforts to achieve emission targets (see box on the right).

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

AUGUST 23, 2023

Strategic sourcing is a contemporary approach to supply chain management. Consider the departments involved, the quantity, where they are located and the processes that are used. The next step is to analyse the supply market and create a supplier portfolio.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MAY 21, 2024

gigawatts “to ensure domestic module manufacturing continues to grow while manufacturers scale production throughout the supply chain.” Commerce has also requested that certain exporters and producers submit information with respect to the quantity and value of their recent exports to the United States.

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Select GCR

MARCH 12, 2024

These industry leaders have a proven track record of successfully executing major contracts, and being part of their supply chain enhances your reputation in the eyes of clients and investors alike. Enhanced Credibility Associating with prime contractors adds a layer of credibility to your business.

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The Procurement School

MAY 27, 2024

Supply chain issues” has become an accepted catch-all term to explain a range of circumstances. Until recently, public owners have relied on a common approach of drafting conceptual drawings, commissioning quantity surveys, and buffering their budgets to allow for a percentage contingency.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This method decreases the number of bids to control and evaluate, concentrating on the quality rather than quantity. It includes project plans, bills of quantities, contract conditions, drawings, and occasionally submission templates. For contractors to accurately bid, this is a crucial document.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Considers all of the ways to meet a business need rather than just updating the prices, quantities and terms of the past and carrying them forward. In too many cases, Procurement has been conditioned to robotically execute Strategic Sourcing projects in response to a need expressed by the business.

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University of Bristol

APRIL 6, 2020

The importance of public procurement and supply chain management has rarely been so prominently in the public eye and political debate—except, perhaps, in the case of notorious procurement scandals, such as the recent Brexit-related #ferrygate.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 24, 2024

During the training, Jason, Liam, and Alex will cover the following topics and more: Pricing – Transactional Data Reporting (TDR)/Commercial Sales Practices (CSP); Domestic Preferences; Supply Chain; Enforcement/Mandatory Disclosure/Ethics; Sustainability Requirements/Policy; and Bid Protests Update. James Peake , M.D.,

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 10, 2024

During the training, Jason, Liam, and Alex will cover the following topics and more: Pricing – Transactional Data Reporting (TDR)/Commercial Sales Practices (CSP); Domestic Preferences; Supply Chain; Enforcement/Mandatory Disclosure/Ethics; Sustainability Requirements/Policy; and Bid Protests Update. James Peake , M.D.,

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

James Peake , M.D., ‘Ask the PMO Tables:’ One-on-One Sessions with Government Officials As part of our efforts to facilitate engagement between government and industry, we are excited to announce that the popular “Ask the PMO” Tables will return for both days of the Fall Training Conference!

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Embodied carbon refers to the quantity of carbon emitted during the erection of a building. The following can all produce embodied carbon emissions: The extraction of raw materials • The manufacturing and refinement of materials • Transportation • Installation and disposal of construction materials as well as old supplies.

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GovCon & Trade

AUGUST 28, 2023

In some cases, companies may need to carefully review supply chains to ensure their goods are compliant with domestic preference rules. Future changes may require updates to a contractor’s supply chain or procurement preferences, making constant awareness of regulatory updates just part of doing business with the federal government.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The FASC Improvement Act would grant the FASC the ability to directly issue binding removal and exclusion orders to “protect the Federal supply chain from technology companies and products owned or controlled by a foreign adversary.”

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The priority areas are: Asset Management Vulnerability Management Defensible Architecture Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) Incident Detection & Response Each priority area includes further alignment goals to address these variations.

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Inside Government Contracts

MARCH 12, 2024

That general waiver has been in place ever since. This change in policy comes in the wake of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s Build America, Buy America (“BABA”) provisions, which expanded Buy America coverage broadly in federal financial assistance programs for infrastructure.

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The Contractor's Perspective

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

How to Remain Compliant in Exceptional Circumstances One of the loudest criticisms of BABA is the potential to compound challenges with existing supply chain constraints. The lack of existing domestic capacity can make it difficult to produce certain types of materials, such as zinc and lumber, in the United States. 2 CFR §184.7(a).

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

60] Similarly, what the contractor provides as consideration should, if possible, not be a substantial change to work type or quantity. And, at that level of inflation, other defenses will likely arise (such as objective impossibility due to severe supply chain dislocation). Thus, under astronomical inflation (e.g.,

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The objective of the interim rule is to “…address risks in supply chains by reducing or removing threats and vulnerabilities that may lead to data and intellectual property theft, damage to critical infrastructure, harm to Federal information systems, and otherwise degrade our national security.”

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

MARCH 24, 2025

Aimed primarily at imports from key trading partners, these tariffs are set to significantly affect a wide array of goods, directly highlighting the impact of US tariffs on UK supply chains. The Impact of US Tariffs on UK Supply Chains 1. How Procurement Professionals Can Respond 1.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 26, 2024

This is a crucial step in supporting a diverse and resilient federal marketplace, driving cost savings, and improving the overall supply chain. “Government contractors have invested millions in indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts as they are fast and easy ways to buy.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Terms and conditions, among them, quality, quantity, delivery, warranty, capability, complexity and place of performance, factor into pricing decisions. Data context in assessing fair and reasonable pricing is foundational to sound acquisition business decisions. It is also a regulatory requirement. See FAR 15.405.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

Supply Chain Realignment Generally speaking, going into 2023, supply chains have significantly improved, alleviating some of the inflationary pressure caused by previous disruptions. 86] Hence, supply chain realignment is well underway. .” 86] Hence, supply chain realignment is well underway.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 16, 2025

This multiple award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (MA-IDIQ) consolidation of two current U.S. Army released the first draft request for proposal (RFP) for its newly merged contract, the Marketplace for the Acquisition of Professional Services (MAPS). A little over a month later, on Dec.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 9, 2025

COTS items are defined as any item of supply that is (1) a commercial item, (2) sold in substantial quantities in the commercial marketplace, and (3) offered to the government under a contract or subcontract at any tier, without modification, in the same form in which it is sold in the commercial marketplace.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As CISA has noted , [an SBOM] has emerged as a key building block in software security and software supply chain risk management. SBOMs are defined by CISA as a formal record containing the details and supply chain relationships of various components used in building software.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 13, 2025

Jason Oxman, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council a leading trade group that r epresents a host of software and AI companies said in a statement that the global export controls on AI-related advanced compute tools threatens to fragment global supply chains and discourage the use of U.S. technology.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 19, 2024

MAPS is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that is set to replace the ITES-3S and RS3 contracts in 2027. Interested parties please send your feedback on the draft sections to Michael Hanafin at mhanafin@thecgp.org by January 7.

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