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6 Reasons Smart Government Contractors are Turning to A/R Financing
Government contractors are increasingly discovering how accounts receivable (A/R) financing offer great overall value to their companies. So why are these businesses raving about this simple, cost-effective form of alternative financing, and how are they using it to help meet (and often times … [Read more...]
Help! I Can’t Find State and Local Bid Opportunities on FedBizOpps
Many government vendors rely on FedBizOpps as a source for federal contracting leads; the tool is free, the data is in a consistent format and users can easily set up “search agents” to deliver bid opportunities to them automatically via email. For vendors who also have a focus on the roughly … [Read more...]
17 Questions Everyone Should Ask At A Contract Debriefing
Article by AOC Key Solutions: You are at the post-award contract debrief. Win or lose, you search for the good, bad, and ugly about your proposal. In the past, you posed the usual questions to the government: Why did we win (or lose)? What was our score relative to other bidders–or at least the … [Read more...]
3D printing may radically change the defense industry
Experts are saying 3D printing will revolutionize war and foreign policy making incredible new designs possible and potentially radically changing the defense industry as we know it today. 3D printing still looks like a gimmick to some, used for printing useless plastic items and not much … [Read more...]
Limitations on Subcontracting: SBA Proposes Sweeping Changes
By Steven Koprince: The limitations on subcontracting would undergo sweeping changes under a recent SBA proposal. On December 29, the SBA issued a proposed rule to enact the changes implemented by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013–including a thorough re-write of the … [Read more...]
Finding a Bargain for Government Buyers Shouldn’t Be a Crime
In acquisition parlance, ‘low-price/technically acceptable’ really means ‘low-profits/taxpayer-approved.’ Important programs are being starved of vital funding because of inadequate revenues, congressional gridlock and sequestration. But contractors, who bill taxpayers a whopping $500 billion … [Read more...]
Defense Agency Faulted for Wrongful Challenge to Contractor
The Defense Contract Audit Agency’s decision to reject $6.6 million in a contractor’s claimed costs in fiscal 2008 did not comply with generally accepted government auditing standards, the Defense Department’s watchdog found. The probe of a complaint received over the inspector general’s hotline … [Read more...]
The Best E-gov Websites in the World
In Design Secrets of the World’s Best e-Government Web Sites, the Asia-Pacific online communications powerhouse FutureGov singles out eight national e-government portals as the best-designed in the world, and identifies the best practices these sites exemplify. “Ultimately, these … [Read more...]
Outlook: Big data and analytics in 2015
By Gigaom Analyst Andrew Brust: Executive Summary Big data and analytics technologies have been going gangbusters for several years, with companies, funding rounds, technologies, and releases occuring rapid-fire since Hadoop and NoSQL stepped onto the industry stage. Each of the last several years … [Read more...]
Opening Government Through Federal Crowdsourcing
DigitalGOV has featured crowdsourcing throughout the month of December and their post below is their latest in the series. You can find the entire series here: DigitalGOV Monthly Theme Crowdsourcing is a critical corner of the digital government landscape, and our December theme articles … [Read more...]
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