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LOVELAND, Colo., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In a series of new initiatives to enhance its customers' experience, Heska Corporation (Nasdaq: HSKA) ("Heska" or the "Company") announced today the launch of its new and improved website. The upgraded site is the result of several months of analysis, design and programming to align the site with the company's new brand image and strategic objectives.
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In addition to the site's many new technical features, the design and interface present a dramatic improvement. The site's navigation is streamlined, making it more intuitive and user-friendly. In the coming weeks, Heska will be introducing new site features including a login where pages are populated with user defined content, special offers and access for continuing education opportunities. Of special interest is an exciting new online customer rewards program that will be launching, unique to Heska, and designed specifically to benefit our veterinary partners.
"We think this presentation provides greater ease and efficiency as users access their resources while simultaneously inviting the veterinary industry to learn more about Heska's stream of new solutions for their practice. This new site coming online is part of a larger effort to offer our customers the best possible service and support," said Michael J. McGinley, President and Chief Operating Officer of Heska Corporation.
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As temperatures rise and summer settles in, many of us head outside.
Although temperatures havent been too bad yet the idea of a heavy, red wine sometimes just isnt appealing as we mingle with friends and family on our decks and porches, enduring hot, humid evenings.
A chilled white wine is certainly an option, but how about a rosé? Yes, those pink wines that often hail from France. And yes, some rosés can be sweet, but thats not universally true.
Sean Griffith, sales and marketing manager at Mulderbosch Vineyards in South Africa, admitted that many rosés have been known for their sweetness. But that is changing.
Rosés have, until recent years, had a fairly negative connotation in the South African marketplace because historically many were badly made and excessively sweet, he said via email.
South African rosés are typically made from cabernet sauvignon, merlot or syrah, but Mulderbosch decided on cabernet sauvignon for its rosé.
It gave a lovely peppery spiciness to the wine, good natural acidity and weight, Griffith said. (They) are incredibly versatile wines that are capable of handling the entire spectrum of red and white meats, vegetables and salads.
According to Griffith, South African rosés are made using one of three techniques, each of which imparts a different character.
In the skin-contact method, black-skinned grapes are crushed and the skins briefly left in contact with the juice to impart a pinkish hue. Saignée, or bleeding, is a technique winemakers use to produce darker red wines. To do this, they press or bleed out some of the pink juice. That juice can then be made into a rosé. The third option is blending, in which a little red wine is added to a white to impart a pink color.
Last weekend I poured a chilled 2012 Mulderbosch cabernet sauvignon rosé ($11) to accompany some appetizers. The wine, which is produced using the skin-contact method, had an almost salmon-colored pink hue and somewhat unusual aromas perhaps oranges and cherries. Unsure of what to expect, I took a sip and was treated to a crisp, refreshing wine with some fruitiness and acidity.
According to the wines tasting notes, the cabernet sauvignon used in the wine is grown specifically with rosé production in mind. Once pressed, the wine is cool fermented and bottled early to give it a crisp, fresh taste that I think most wine drinkers even those of us who prefer reds will find appealing.
In addition to being a great choice to serve with appetizers, this rosé would work well with summer salads, fish, lighter Asian fare, pork and chicken.
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GAO discussed the U.S. counternarcotics efforts in the Caribbean, Colombia, and Mexico, focusing on the: (1) challenges of addressing international counternarcotics issues; and (2) obstacles to implementing U.S. and host-nation drug control efforts.
GAO noted that: (1) its work over the past 10 years indicates that there is no panacea for resolving all of the problems associated with illegal drug trafficking; (2) despite long-standing efforts and expenditures of billions of dollars, illegal drugs still flood the United States; (3) although U.S. and host-nation counternarcotics efforts have resulted in the arrest of major drug traffickers and the seizure of large amounts of drugs, they have not materially reduced the availability of drugs in the United States; (4) a key reason for the lack of success of U.S. counternarcotics programs is that international drug-trafficking organizations have become sophisticated, multibillion-dollar industries that quickly adapt to new U.S. drug control efforts; (5) as success is achieved in one area, the drug-trafficking organizations quickly change tactics, thwarting U.S. efforts; (6) other significant long-standing obstacles also impede U.S. and source and transit countries drug control efforts; (7) in the drug-producing and -transiting countries, counternarcotics efforts are constrained by corruption, limited law enforcement resources, institutional capabilities, and internal problems such as insurgencies and civil unrest; (8) moreover, drug traffickers are increasingly resourceful in corrupting the countries' institutions; (9) some countries, with U.S. assistance, have taken steps to improve their capacity to reduce the flow of illegal drugs into the United States; (10) among other things, these countries have taken action to extradite criminals, enacted legislation to control organized crime, money laundering, and chemicals used in the production of illicit drugs, and instituted reforms to reduce corruption; (11) while these actions represent positive steps, it is too early to determine their impact, and challenges remain; (12) U.S. counternarcotics efforts have also faced obstacles that limit their effectiveness; (13) these include: (a) organizational and operational limitations; and (b) planning and management problems; (14) over the years, GAO has reported on problems related to competing foreign policy priorities, poor operational planning and coordination, and inadequate oversight over U.S. counternarcotics assistance; (15) GAO has also criticized the Office of National Drug Control Policy and U.S. agencies for not having good performance measures to evaluate results; and (16) GAO's work has identified ways to improve U.S. counternarcotics efforts through better planning, sharing of intelligence, and the development of measurable performance goals.
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share. Accordingly, for the three months ended March 29, 2008, the Company
calculated net income per share using the if-converted method for the
entire period while the two-class method was used for the entire period
ended March 31, 2007.
We believe that the following non-GAAP earnings per share information is
relevant and useful information that can be used by analysts, investors
and other interested parties to assess our performance on a comparable
basis to future reported earnings per share. Accordingly, we are
disclosing this information to permit additional analysis of our
performance (in thousands, except share data):
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Three Three Three Three
months months months months
ended ended ended ended
March 31, March 29, March 31, March 29,
2007 2008 2007 2008
Net income attributable
to common stockholders:
Net income - two class
method $9,097 NA
Accretion of preferred
stock (1,956) NA
Income attributable to
preferred stockholders (4,828) NA
Net income attributable to
common stockholders $2,313 NA
Basic net income per
common share:
Weighted average common
shares outstanding - two
class method 16,592,163 NA
Basic earnings per share
for period during which
two classes of equity
securities were outstanding $0.14 NA
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How X-rays Work" X-rays are basically the same thing as visible light rays. Both are wavelike forms of electromagnetic energy carried by particles called photons (see How Light Works for details). Ablation. Ablation is removal of material from the surface of an object by vaporization, chipping, or other erosive processes. Examples of ablative materials are described below, and include spacecraft material for ascent and atmospheric reentry, ice and snow in glaciology, biological tissues in medicine, and passive fire protection materials.
Nuclear Fission Basics. The debate over nuclear power plants has been going on for some time, with nuclear physicists and lawmakers alike throwing around terms like nuclear fission, critical mass, and chain reaction. But how does nuclear fission work, exactly? In the 1930s, scientists discovered that some nuclear reactions can be initiated and controlled. Scientists usually accomplished this task by bombarding a large isotope with a second, smaller one — commonly a neutron. The collision caused the larger isotope to break apart into two or more elements, which is called nuclear fission. How does fission work? Ryan, It's not so much the kinetic energy of the neutron - but the fact that it is falling into a nuclear potential well. Imagine you had an old well - the type people used to haul water up from in a bucket. Except this well is dry - it's just a very deep hole in the ground lined with stones.
How do nuclear fusion and nuclear fission work. Compton Scattering. In Compton scattering, an incoming photon of energy E (shown in black) undergoes an elastic collision with a weakly bound (assumed free) outer-shell electron (shown in blue). The electron is scattered with kinetic energy K at an angle j with respect to the x-axis (direction of incoming photon) while the scattered photon of energy E' (shown in green) makes an angle q with respect to the x-axis. Electrons, photons, and the photo-electric effect. We're now starting to talk about quantum mechanics, the physics of the very small.
Planck's constant. Plasmas. Plasmas exist in a wide range of settings and varieties.
Most stars are made up of plasma. The Aurora Borealis is a plasma light show in our upper atmosphere caused by the bombardment from space of the solar wind - another kind of plasma. Lightning bolts are visible plasma trails left by the passage of the electric current that formed it. As stated in the definition, plasma is a gaseous type of state where the matter making the plasma consists of electrically neutral and charged particles.
Overall, plasma is electrically neutral having as many positive ions as free electrons distributed through it. Accelerating electrons through ordinary gas can create plasma, in just the way they create lightning. New Cold Fusion Evidence Reignites Hot Debate. 25 March 2009—On Monday, scientists at the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Salt Lake City announced a series of experimental results that they argue confirms controversial "cold fusion" claims.
Chief among the findings was new evidence presented by U.S. National Ignition Facility. The National Ignition Facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
The target assembly for NIF's first integrated ignition experiment is mounted in the cryogenic target positioning system, or cryoTARPOS. The two triangle-shaped arms form a shroud around the cold target to protect it until they open five seconds before a shot. The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a powerful laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. NIF uses powerful lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel to the point where nuclear fusion reactions take place. National Ignition Facility & Photon Science - Bringing Star Power to Earth. Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star. How scientists brought the power of the Sun to Earth « Goodheart's Extreme Science.
Fusion power. The Sun is a natural fusion reactor.
106, 085004 (2011): Demonstration of Ignition Radiation Temperatures in Indirect-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Hohlraums. Big science in a small space. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore in California was designed with a specific goal: to use high-powered lasers to ignite a fusion reaction that releases more energy than the one million joules needed to start it.
Now, in a pair of papers appearing in Physical Review Letters (Kline et al. and Glenzer et al.), scientists at NIF are reporting some of the first tests at the new facility. In experiments that simulate "real" conditions more closely than any previous attempt, the team shows they are able to successfully generate the almost sunlike levels of heat needed for laser-driven fusion.
Nuclear Fusion : WNA. (Updated February 2014) Fusion power offers the prospect of an almost inexhaustible source of energy for future generations, but it also presents so far insurmountable scientific and engineering challenges.
The main hope is centred on tokamak reactors which confine a deuterium-tritium plasma magnetically. Today, many countries take part in fusion research to some extent, led by the European Union, the USA, Russia and Japan, with vigorous programs also underway in China, Brazil, Canada, and Korea. Initially, fusion research in the USA and USSR was linked to atomic weapons development, and it remained classified until the 1958 Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva. Following a breakthrough at the Soviet tokamak, fusion research became 'big science' in the 1970s.
Fusion technology Fusion powers the Sun and stars as hydrogen atoms fuse together to form helium, and matter is converted into energy.


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Research and development expense was $8.0 million for the second quarter of this year, compared to $14.5 million for the same period last year. For the first six months of 2008, R&D expense was $20.6 million, compared to $27.2 million for the first six months of 2007. Our research and development expense in the first six months of the year reflects the conclusion of clinical pharmacology studies in our most advanced drug development programs, the launch of our prostate cancer and glaucoma diagnostics tests, and the advancement of gene and target discovery work in a range of major disease areas.
Selling, general and administrative expense for the second quarter of 2008 was $7.1 million, compared to $6.8 million for the 2007 period. For the first half of the year, SG&A expense was $14.4 million in 2008 and $12.3 million in 2007. The increases in SG&A expense year-on-year reflect principally the build-up of our sales efforts for the company's diagnostics and deCODEme(TM) businesses.
At June 30, 2008, the company had $49.4 million in cash and investments. This includes $23.7 million in cash, cash equivalents and current investments, $5.1 million in restricted cash equivalents, and $20.6 million in non-current investments in auction rate securities. At December 31, 2007, the company had $94.1 million in cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash equivalents, and investments.
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The main theme from the recently held JDA FOCUS 2012 conference (I could not attend in person, but JDA Software kindly briefed me) was that the leading supply chain management (SCM) software company is aggressively moving to the cloud and managed information technology (IT) services. (To be clear, JDA is not yet moving into managed logistics fulfillment services, unless we are unaware of some partner offering). But this move towards more packaged and hosted offerings and away from the heavily customized projects of the past has been hinted at during the last two conferences, and is not a major surprise.
In addition, the conference confirmed that the roadmaps for heritage JDA products and acquired i2 Technologies and Manugistics products are converging. Here are a couple of concrete product deliveries highlighted during the conference:
Retail has always been JDA's industry of focus (see figure 1), and these announcements confirm its standing, with support from some recently acquired and partnered applications. Some products from former Manugistics and i2 have contributed to the JDA Shelf-Connected Cloud solution suite, which enables manufacturer and retailer trading partners to collaborate at the shelf level for enhanced competitive advantage and performance. JDA's Shelf-Connected Cloud, which among other pieces includes JDA 3D and JDA Assortment, improves the flow of information from the retail point of sale (POS) back to consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers.
Figure 1. JDA Retail Portfolio
Retail Maturity Evolution
Most recently, JDA's focus has been on helping retailers accommodate "connected, always-on" consumers, which are now the driving force in retail (see figure 2). As JDA outlined its strategy and vision in a press release in early 2012, "the information [consumers] need to make a buying decision can be found in mere seconds and shapes what they buy, when and where they buy it, and at what price. Empowered and emboldened, these connected consumers expect personalized relationships and offerings delivered through flexible options" (see figure 3).
Figure 2. Retail Maturity Model
Figure 3. New Customer Expectations
JDA believes that these trends require a new approach:
one that allows retailers to attract, win, and keep profitable customers. It starts with retailers understanding the urgency of the situation and the need to quickly adopt the following strategies:
Manage with a consumer (rather than a product) focus
Adopt a culture that offers a seamless, consistent cross-channel experience
Gain a multi-dimensional view of the customer
Eliminate ineffective and disjointed planning processes
Respond quickly to consumer demand with an agile and optimized supply chain
Retailers seeking customer-centricity in every interaction must consider the following issues:
The increasing frequency and scope of demand shifts within planning cycles, which commands intelligence and interaction during execution to ensure customer satisfaction and profitability
How to deliver endless aisles—sourcing and delivering from the broadest network in real time to offer greater assortment flexibility and to cement loyalty
The need to empower store associates with customer, product, and availability information that is equal or superior to that accessible to consumers, allowing for increased customer satisfaction [see figure 4]
Inventory allocation flexibility and utilization control to meet growing demands
one that allows retailers to attract, win, and keep profitable customers. It starts with retailers understanding the urgency of the situation and the need to quickly adopt the following strategies:
Retailers seeking customer-centricity in every interaction must consider the following issues:
Figure 4. Mobile for Store Associates
JDA's consumer-connected retail approach, enabling retailers to successfully serve today's wired consumers, is "built on the simultaneous management of the customer experience, the product lifecycle, and channel synchronization. These three inter-related strategies drive a company's ability to effectively plan, execute, and satisfy customers."
JDA Customer Engagement Cloud: Some Concrete Product Delivery at FOCUS 2012
Prior to the FOCUS 2012 conference, JDA Software at the National Retail Federation (NRF) BIG Retail Show in January 2012 launched the blueprint for JDA Customer Engagement Cloud. The idea behind this offering is to balance profitability and customer satisfaction. FOCUS 2012 provided the opportunity to see the product in action. Retailers can convert "connected" shoppers into buyers if they can provide consistent experience, access, and brand image for customers. To that end, JDA Customer Engagement Cloud captures customer interactions across multiple channels—mobile, e-commerce, partners, social media, and store—to understand cross-channel customer preferences.
This capability then leads to mobile empowerment of consumers as well as store and field associates through real-time access to customer details, including universal cart, purchase history, and order details (see figure 5). The associates that know their customers well can answer product questions in a more knowledgeable and confident way and access inventory availability globally, thus increasing sales and better completing their tasks in general.
Figure 5. Mobile Empowerment
One of JDA's main competitors, RedPrairie, having acquired Escalate Retail 2011, now provides an all-channel commerce platform for managing customer interactions (engagement) across every conceivable customer touch-point (i.e., e-commerce, call center, store, kiosk, mobile, etc.). While not necessarily covering all the bases that RedPrairie does, JDA nonetheless can fulfill orders across a number of retail channels (customer touch points) and fulfillment methods in its "omni-channel commerce" offering.
Figure 6. Order Management
The old way of retailing was to have disconnected customer, inventory, and order management systems. For the order capturing needs, the call center workflow capability was repurposed from i2's renowned Order Sequencing & Slotting product for manufacturing to be used within the retail context, based on JDA's vast industry experience and knowledge (see figure 6). Flexible, data-driven product catalogs are delivered from a single source in the application, whereas simplified order delivery splitting aims to ensure customer satisfaction while maintaining profitability.
In other words, JDA Customer Engagement Cloud integrates formerly disconnected systems to provide a single seamless customer order management experience. It also enables third-party direct-to-consumer fulfillment if necessary, and many more order facilitation alternatives (see figure 7). The capability for consumer store pickup accommodates multiple buying strategies—e.g., whether the consumer needs all or part of the order immediately or later, etc. As retailers continue to struggle with synching up their online and bricks-and-mortar businesses, these multichannel fulfillment capabilities became increasingly important.
Figure 7. Order Facilitation
Who Has the Most Complete Retail SCM Offering (and Does It Matter, Yet)?
Contrary to Manhattan Associates and RedPrairie, JDA does not provide it own warehouse management system (WMS). So how is JDA able to truly provide a "buy anywhere, fulfill anywhere" experience without having own fulfillment (execution) solutions? RedPrairie also touts its capabilities in labor management and task management in warehouses and retail stores, but JDA has the former Timera Retail Solutions (now JDA Workforce Management) product for some of those capabilities. JDA admits the lack of its own WMS, but the vendor points out that hardly any retailer will have all of the products from the same vendor, and the lack of WMS capabilities might be moot if you know how to integrate.
Single-vendor retail SCM solutions are not currently feasible—traditionally, retailers have preferred some level of customization and have strong in-house integration teams. Since retailers are used to picking and choosing their solutions from multiple vendors and require best-of-breed (BoB) WMS and workforce management (WFM) capabilities, maybe they don't really need a "one-stop-shop" offering. At any point in time, a retailer will have different needs. Once the company closes a functional gap (e.g., store labor and tasks), it moves on to the next issue.
What JDA Can Talk Up
JDA has superior retail pricing optimization and multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) capabilities, which are not really present in the offerings by its competitors. Thus, JDA Customer Engagement Cloud utilizes real-time MEIO to create profitable-to-promise decisions to still satisfy customers (via a JDA-patented profitable promising algorithm). Real-time MEIO provides the ability to look across the network and leverage inventory more effectively (by taking into consideration incoming inventory and inventory thresholds), to deliver significant inventory reductions while improving service levels.
Instead of handling inventory in the traditional way, segregated by channel, JDA Customer Engagement Cloud allocates inventory based on demand forecast and dynamically adjusts to reflect shifting demand and supply. Needless to say, it supports cross-channel fulfillment from a single distribution center (DC).
Moreover, JDA Customer Engagement Cloud throws out manual decisions based primarily on cost, which delay deliveries on contractual agreements, to hail the new approach: selecting optimal shipping location based on profitability factors including costs, shipping, price, timeliness, and strategic variables such as customer priority (see figure 8). The product also offers consistent price execution across channels, as opposed to the outdated practice of determining price by each channel (to the dismay and irritation of customers). The system takes into consideration store promotions, time-limited promotional campaigns, dynamic price groups, customer loyalty pricing and promotions, coupons, and consumption management. It also protects margins by guiding store associates who are asked to match prices on the fly.
Figure 8. Optimization
Until one retail SCM suite can consistently win, it will be a BoB world, and most vendor marketing will be just noise. Still, it can only help a vendor to be able to offer most (or perhaps all) of the requirements on its own can. If RedPrairie and Manhattan Associates can make JDA's lack of WMS an issue, they could play it to their advantage in some competitive situations.
A combination of JDA and Manhattan Associates, RedPrairie, or HighJump would go a long way. To my mind, JDA needs to tightly partner for or buy the supply chain execution (SCE) capabilities. In theory, retail enterprises can already get almost everything from one enterprise vendor, and it's called SAP, IBM, or Oracle (and perhaps Infor and Epicor). But there is room for one more megavendor in the SCM space. JDA should go that last mile and manage the entire SCM process.
References and Recommended Reading
Successful Cross-channel Retailing: 4 Concepts to Master. May 28, 2012.SAP SCM—Stepping Out of Obscurity. February 28, 2012. RedPrairie: Enabling End-to-End Supply Chains (from Manufacturer to Retail Shelf). December 29, 2011. JDA FOCUS 2010 Impressions – Part 2. September 7, 2010.A Tale of a Few Good SCM Players – Part 4. November 4, 2009.


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@DamonI think your posts are pretty much on the ball most of what you said I would agree with,I also notice "Rossi Stoned" used the word "cheat" in one of his posts I would advise him to withdraw that statment or we might have to talk about TAXATION that a certain rider tried not to pay but was caught cheating,so to "Rossi Stoned" be careful.
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I would not say that the yamaha is clearly the best bike, it may have be been the best around catalunya, and is best under braking, but it clearly loses out to honda on exit and down the straight. Stoner is now only 20 points ahead of his team mate, Rossi is 21! which is interesting, although the pattern is likley to reverse. Something else that is interesting: i have been trawling through the race laps times this year and found that Jlo and Rossi are very similar in one respect, they better than any other riders are able to string together 10-15 laps that are close to their best lap time in a race. You can see this when you compare free practice with races, Jlo and Rossi generally dont qualify that well but do better in the race, Stoner is the opposite.
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August 31, 2012 The tax incentives are intended to defray the organ donor's cost in medical care, travel and lost wages. By federal statute, it's illegal to pay someone for the organ itself. But the modest breaks available in some states haven't made a dent.
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Welcome to the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies (CALS) at Sonoma State University
The department is housed in the School of Arts and Humanities at Sonoma State University and offers several programs of study. Our degree programs offer students the opportunity to employ an interdisciplinary approach to the study of one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. Courses in CALS invite students to critically examine the experiences and contributions of Latino populations in relation to issues of political representation, linguistic policy, educational inequality, poverty, immigration, and symbolic struggles in media, literature, and the arts.
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The science and engineering capabilities that underpin the nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship and nonproliferation missions at the nation's three national security laboratories are "healthy and vibrant," says a new report from the National Research Council.
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GSA's reverse auctions won't have an auctioneer with a gavel, but Steve Kelman wonders if they'll even be fair to other players. (Stock image)
As FCW has reported, GSA launched a reverse auction site last week. As many blog readers are aware, I sit on the Board of Advisors of FedBid, the commercial company that has introduced reverse auctions to many government agencies and is the leading reverse auction services provider in this market. I have been asked, not surprisingly, what my reaction is to GSA's new site, which appears to have been developed to compete with FedBid and other commercial reverse auction providers. (Let me note that I speak only for myself here, not FedBid.)
As a general matter, competition is a good thing for any market, including the market for reverse auction services. Like any other market, as demand for reverse auctioning in government grows, it will inevitably create more and stronger competition. On the other hand, there could be intellectual property issues with GSA's tool (I claim no expertise in IP law), and there also is a philosophical issue about whether it is appropriate to use government funds to develop an application that is already commercially available, which will then compete with private companies while charging government customers nothing.
The bottom line, I think, is that from the perspective of government agencies, competition for reverse auction services is good, just as it is for other products or services. It is a good thing for two reasons. First, the GSA imprimatur adds a new level of legitimacy and visibility to reverse auctions as one of the techniques, in these tight budget times, for government to save money.
If reverse auctioning is a good thing at all, anything that helps it spread beyond where it is used now is good for agencies and taxpayers alike. It is very possible that an expansion of reverse auctioning as a technique will expand the market for commercial reverse auction providers as well as for GSA. I also expect that the presence of another significant player in the federal reverse auction market will encourage further improvement and innovation in the industry. That's a good thing.
There is a source of worry, however. GSA plans to limit its reverse auction vendor base to GSA Schedule contract holders. I am somewhat concerned that GSA may favor its own site as a place for schedule vendors to participate in reverse auctions or, in the extreme, forbid schedule holders to use any other site. It is even possible that GSA might seek to require agencies to get approval from them before using any other than GSA's reverse auction site.
These are not far-fetched possibilities: GSA unfortunately has a history of efforts to establish itself as the monopoly source of supply, including in the recent past trying to strangle inside-the-government competing GWAC contracts. This should be the last thing that agencies will want, since the danger would be to make them dependent on an inferior government supplier for reverse auction services. Hopefully, GSA will take this opportunity publicly to make it crystal-clear that reverse auction competition will occur on a level playing field.
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Reverse Auctions have their place. However, if GSA is doing its job effectively, allowing already vetted on-schedule GSA items to be auctioned adds FedBid's 3% to prices that are theoretically determined to be 'fair and reasonable'. And it covertly pushes these costs out to the agency/task order level. When evaluating so called 'cost savings' does anyone factor the costs incurred to originally negotiate and maintain these items on schedule? And underhandedly, FedBid says that they'll allow for relief of over priced transactions by reducing to equal to THAT VENDOR's GSA negotiated price. Have we lost sight of the original reason for the 'pre-negotiated' philosophy behind Multiple Award Schedules? If we're really about costs savings, let's look at the WHOLE cost and not just that portion that makes FedBid rich.
I'd encourage anyone who is curious about FedBid to do a little research about it. There is nothing shady about FedBid, there is nothing to hide. If you became informed about FedBid, I think you would be surprised at how many positive things are going on with the company and at how well they operate.
Before jumping to conclusions and making assumptions, please take the time to research the company.
Dr. Kelman has every right to write on reverse-auctions and policy. His opinions are as valuable today as ever. My only comments are: 1) the reference to 'intellectual property issues' should be explained because vendors and agencies should be made aware asap, and 2) GSA wont mandate only their RA tool. I think Kelman is stretching a bit for FedBid's benefit and it seems like he may have been fed the "IP issues" concern by FedBid, but that is his right as a blogger.
Steve Kelman has responded to some of the reader comments here in out blog "The Conversation." Check there for his thoughts.
Kelman's relationship with FedBid is adequately disclosed- don't understand the first two comments. This gist is "You're involved- shut up". No passing grade on first amendment knowledge here. I disagree with Kelman that the Government can compete with the private sector. It can only crowd out the private sector. Social Security crowds out the annuity market, for example. This will drive FedBid out of business, but not because of any merit on GSA's part.
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