The Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released itsAnnual Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2024 (B-158766), summarizing bid protest activity during the 2024 fiscal year. The FY24 bid protest statistics reflect a continuation of recent trends, and course correction after the FY23 statistic...
A third difference is who takes the decisions. In X-Road, although there is no strict control in place of the development as stated by one of the contractors, the final decision -be it technical or not- is taken by NIIS. In comparison, in other OSS projects these type of decisions are...
Transitioning to a non-incumbent is always considered a risk because there is no guarantee the existing workforce will remain with the new contractor. We solicited employment letters of intent for over 80 percent of the incumbent workforce (contingent upon our winning the contract) and provided a ...
By comparison to these industry best practices, most Federal Government IT projects are too large and not sufficiently integrated into business unit operations. Multi-year Federal IT efforts are typically driven by technology managers—who often turn over during the life of the project—rather than ...
The second one is the exploration and production sharing agreement (EPSA). Unlike the tax and royalty agreements; the host government retains all the hydrocarbons in place. In this type of agreement, the contractor shall bear all exploration costs and shall also bear all associated risks. If exp...
(CSL). Quiggin found that presumed public benefits of contracting out have been overestimated. There may be benefits in cases where peripheral government risks can be successfully transferred to a contractor who is able to manage those risks, but badly designed contracts can result in governments,...
.COM, July 06, 2010 ) NEW YORK CITY -- Savant Services Corp., a leading public–sector business management consulting firm, announced today that it has been awarded the Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Contractor Certification Level 1.The Department of Veterans Affairs Federal Contractor....
“My interpretation is that they’re trying to find that sweet spot of how to make it viable for a contractor while staying true to their mission of improving quality of life for service members, families and other authorized commissary customers,” CEO Todd Waldemar told the publication, which...
Meanwhile, a comparison with the P2TL-CPT-TODIM method was performed to demonstrate the stability and effectiveness of the designed method. Keywords: multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM); Pythagorean 2-tuple linguistic sets (P2TLSs); TODIM method; cumulative prospect theory (CPT); ...
What really bothers me is that no one has really given much in the way of a description of how this really helps “fight the bad guys.” I’m not even sure who the “bad guys” are. You know this person Osama bin-Laden. Last I heard he was dead. And China? Well if the US ha...