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Commercial Opportunity for the VA Medical Supply Chain 

The Coalition for Government Procurement

As a threshold matter, it is important to note that the remaining 85 percent of supplies and products are ordered manually across the VA. This represents about 15 percent of the VHAs $5 billion annual spend on medical supplies and equipment. Significant challenges across the medical supply chain remain.

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Thoughts on the AI Safety Summit from a public sector procurement & use of AI perspective

How to Crack a Nut

This principle could be applied to the current generation of models, or applied when certain capability thresholds were met. This would create certain ‘gates’ that a model had to pass through before it could be deployed.

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Pentagon IG not impressed by effectiveness of DoD vendors’ award fees

Federal News Network

White papers are due by March 7, and winners will be announced on August 23. One change in the guidance reflects the April 2023 executive order that raises the monetary impact threshold to $200 million from $100 million. OMB said the new policy goes into affect on March 17. (

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Government Contracts Inflation Update

Procurement Notes

As part of this, in a February 2023 white paper released by Former Fed. In an August 19, 2022 white paper, Francesco Bianchi, Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins, and Leonardo Melosi, Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, argued essentially that. [71] The experts are presently debating the prospect. [58]

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Friday Flash 04/18/2025

The Coalition for Government Procurement

In addition, he will discuss GSAs efforts to rightsize the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Program, which includes allowing contracts that fail to meet sales thresholds to expire, removing items with insufficient customer demand, addressing contractor noncompliance, and reducing procurement redundancies.