Empowering Small Business: A Matchmakin...
PurposeTo create a forum that fosters interaction and knowledge sharing between small businesses, government officials, industry experts, and large/ prime businesses. The aim is to equip attendees with knowledge and tools to help access government contracts, navigate regulatory demands, explore contracting, subcontracting, or teaming arrangement opportunities, and stay updated on pertinent topics important for small business growth. Objectives...
February 29, 2024
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ACT-IAC Location:
Washington, DC
Making AI Work for Us - Improving Acqui...
DESCRIPTION: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies have entered the government procurement environment and from everyone’s perspective these technologies are here to stay. These newer technologies enable us to re-imagine service delivery and provide more efficient operations; however, there are still concerns about ethical and legal implications, intellectual property rights, data and privacy protection, and more....
January 31, 2024
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ACT-IAC Location:
Reston, VA
Acquisition Innovation Forum
DESCRIPTION The COVID-19 pandemic has altered how the business of government gets done. Within acquisition, new opportunities have presented themselves to innovate and collaborate more effectively with industry. In this changing landscape with a new Administration, an increased focus on supporting the federal workforce, continuing telework, and a new urgency to address supply chain and cybersecurity challenges, it's a different world and we ma...
April 20, 2021
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ACT-IAC Location:
Virtual
Small Business Alliance: Category Manag...
Category management is a strategic business practice that the Federal Government is applying to buy smarter and more like a single enterprise. It enables the government to eliminate redundancies, increase efficiency, deliver more value and savings from the government's acquisition programs, and meet the government’s small business goals. Accordingly, the government-wide IT Category has a strong commitment to small businesses and wants to...
June 29, 2020
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ACT-IAC Location:
Virtual
NASA SEWP at Imagine Nation - ELC 2018...
Deep Dive into NASA SEWP's Acquisition Tips, Tools and Innovations Get a Deep Dive into NASA SEWP - this session starts with a quick overview of the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) contract vehicle and promptly moves to an interactive web-based demonstration with participant engagement activities. You will learn in-depth details on SEWP as an IT acquisition vehicle that provides simplified acquisitions using customer frie...
October 14, 2018
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ACT-IAC Location:
Philadelphia, PA
ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance: Broker...
All too frequently, good ideas that could benefit the federal government never make it to their attention due to the costs of creating and marketing such innovations. Many small and mid-sized businesses are starved of resources and capital that can allow their company to succeed in the federal marketplace or do not have the access to secure additional funding to make their dream idea a reality. Does your company have ideas, innovations or serv...
July 25, 2017
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ACT-IAC Location:
Washington DC, DC
Acquisition Excellence 2017
Acquisition is a Team Sport The acquisition process has several phases: research, proposals, pricing negotiations, accounting, legal, and ultimately, the integration of two, or more, entities. No one single person can be an expert in all of these segments, so teammates engage when needed and slip out when they've successfully completed their piece. While there is never really a large group of active people working on all of the tasks together...
June 13, 2017
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ACT-IAC Location:
Washington, DC
ACT-IAC Small Business Alliance: Agile...
Agencies such as Department of Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and General Services Administration are among the many that indicate they rely on the Agile approach to IT development. Additionally several agencies have recently urged their procurement offices to operate using Agile principles in addition to buying from known Agile Services vendors. As the pressure continues to mount on Federal agencies to embrace Agile development...
May 2, 2017
Organizer:
ACT-IAC Location:
Washington DC, DC
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