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Government should be making sure that they are re-using content and avoiding vendor lock-in. Need to focus on collaboration and contributing upstream.

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Add DITAP grad Procurement specialists to the USDS DOGE teams embedded in agencies

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Add DITAP grad Procurement specialists to the USDS DOGE teams embedded in agencies

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SBA's new rules on M&A and Recertification Requirements will negatively impact small GOVCON business

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Change SBA rules back to previous and more favorable rules

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This will disincentivize entrepreneurs from entering GOVCON markets as the new rules will negatively impact valuations and M&A market of SBs 

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Lots could be improved with how RFPs are written, but it should be easy to figure out what government wants. With a clear ask, it would also be possible to find out who may have successfully delivered this for government in the past by looking at past RFPs using AI.

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Increase speed of commercial Item purchases for efficiency

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Increase speed of commercial Item purchases for efficiency

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Increase the requirement to the SAP of $250k for non SOW goods/services 

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Open source posting requirements on FBO/Sam.gov for anything over 25k is restrictive to the concept of commercial item purchases

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It should be faster to deliver smaller RFPs more quickly. Organizations need to be able to fail-fast, learn and iterate.

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reduce complexity

break up large contracts

performance based contracts (focus more vendor performance rather than simply meeting requirements

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"Efficiency" isn't just a buzz word for the DSC members.

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"Efficiency" isn't just a buzz word for the DSC members.

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We could highlight with proof that we are indeed focused on website working correctly and efficiently.

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It's not very often that you see bragging comments towards getting a project completed for less money, in less time than proposed.

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As DOGE folks go into new agencies, compare & contrast USDS driven product delivery teams (and contracts) vs more traditional teams (e.g., Deloitte) to determine who is delivering modern tech

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If a vendor is delivering for government, and the client is satisfied, it should be easier to extend the contract if the work still needs to be done.

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The best way to evaluate whether a service works is to ask users. 

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The best way to evaluate whether a service works is to ask users. 

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Build UX research into all contracts

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Creating centralized platforms for sharing data across agencies, which can decrease costs in the long-run by de-duplicating data warehouses. This also ties into building APIs and exploring other data sharing methods.

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Reduce middleware systems and simplify network paths

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Reduce middleware systems and simplify network paths

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Agencies should be directed to improve UX of the innermost data layer where possible, and avoid introducing intermediary systems that neither serve end users of the data nor act as the system of record.

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Many agencies have applications that call APIs that call APIs that call APIs. 

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Vendors & Procurement Officers need a Social Score

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Vendors & Procurement Officers need a Social Score

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We know that there are people in the process of delivering government services who just don't deliver. This can happen on multiple levels, but having some sort of a rating system could be useful for finding those who are under-performing.

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Treat Digital Service Procurements as Capacity Investment contracts

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Treat Digital Service Procurements as Capacity Investment contracts

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Require budget posting as part of RFQs to have bids show how much return on the $dollar is being proposed for digital product delivery.

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Too many of these are evaluated with LPTA -style evaluations

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DITAP for product owners/project managers

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DITAP for product owners/project managers

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Teaching people how to manage technology vendors

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Often small business outperform the larges. 

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Often small business outperform the larges. 

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Continue small-business set-asides.

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Stop the "Sams Club - One Stop Shop" RFP for all aspects of digital modernization.

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Break down the responsibilities throughout a family of small businesses to complete the modernization, safety, and design aspects of the contract. 

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Too many contracts get sourced to bigs because they can do all the digital things.  

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Perhaps DSC could create a library of successful digital modernization projects built by DSC firms to contrast with huge/costly/failed engagements in the "traditional" way

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Look to global approaches like GovStack to simplify services

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Look to global approaches like GovStack to simplify services

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https://www.govstack.global

So much room to re-use components within projects.

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Train Public Sector & Have Sufficient SMEs in Government

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Train Public Sector & Have Sufficient SMEs in Government

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The public sector needs more training to be able to ensure that they can manage contracts effectively. This includes having staff who understand 508 and technical projects.

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Having teams ideate who understand roles like legal, accessibility, procurement and user research. DIEA folks are also valuable, but not likely to be heard by this administration. Ultimately teams should reflect the communities they are trying to serve.

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I was listening to a podcast today and realized that the Business to Government process is broken, partly because vendors can't really delight their customers to ensure that they get future business. What is the incentive to dazzle the customer (or the customer's customer) if that isn't rewarded by procurement.