by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
The United States General Services Administration (GSA) wants to install a civilian version of the $8-billion dollar cloud services contract called DEOS (Defense Enterprise Office Solution) approved by the Department of Defense (DoD) that combines email, content...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
The tech revolution has been slow to catch on with the government procurement process but the transformation of public sector procurement is about to accelerate tremendously in 2019. Vishal Patel wrote about the coming changes in government procurement in this report...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
A recent study by The Hackett Group indicates that government agencies might be forgoing up to 20% of targeted savings when employees makes purchases outside of defined buying channels. The study further indicated that most government agencies do not realize the...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
Zaldy N. Sabino, a procurement officer with the State Department’s Office of Acquisitions Management (AQM) has been charged with 17 counts of conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud, and making false statements. Sabino worked in the Facilities Design Construction Division of...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
Contractors working with the government often have to estimate the amount of work to be performed in “person-years.” Person-years are used as a measure of how many hours a company is expected to contribute every year, yet it turns out that a single person-years is...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
Just last April, Colombia changed its law concerning government bidding to make it mandatory to use standard tender document for public transport works. The new law’s intent was to make public bidding more transparent and reduce corruption in the process. A study...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
A Defense Department report to Congress obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that at least $334 billion in taxpayer money was lost due to fraudulent defense contracting from 2013 to 2017. A similar DoD report covering the years 2001 to 2010 also...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 8, 2019 | Nonprofit Management
Today’s technologies pull data from everywhere and it is the proper understanding and the use of insights from the data that can keep nonprofits on the right track when it comes to organizational efficacy and sustainability. But where to start? Luckily, Carnegie...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 8, 2019 | Nonprofit Management
With the launch of the Centers for Civic Impact, Johns Hopkins University is advancing efforts to provide data-driven research muscle to better understand and enhance public life. “We know from experience that change is more effective when it is based on data and...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 1, 2019 | Nonprofit Management
The best first step any nonprofit can make toward protecting employee, donor, and volunteer data safe is by using updated software. If your organization is using Windows 7, for example, be aware that support from Microsoft ends in 2020, which will leave a gaping...
