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  • WSJ
    Schools Squander Millions to ‘Bulletproof’ Windows. It Doesn’t Work.

    Dallas Independent School District said it budgeted as much as $12 million to install window film at dozens of campuses. Nashville’s public schools put up $3.5 million. The school district in New Rochelle, N.Y., spent $5.5 million on film and security glass, according to contracting-data provider GovSpend. A spokeswoman for Avery Dennison, an Ohio ...

  • Sold a Story E9: The Aftermath (Podcast)

    Sold a Story Podcast | APM Reports Peak: So, this is GovSpend. They've been tracking basically every purchase order that comes out of a public agency that they're able to get their hands on since 2015. And it has everything from your state highway patrol all the way down to your local trash pickup. And ...

  • Deep Water Point & Associates and GovSpend Forge Strategic Alliance to Enhance Federal Contractor Success

    New Partnership Paves the Way for Accelerated Growth of Government Contractors McLean, VA, Aug. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Deep Water Point & Associates (DWPA), a federal firm specializing in consulting, advisory and growth services, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with GovSpend, a leading provider of government procurement data and intelligence. ...

  • Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

    The group shared the files with The AP, which independently found that Fog sold its software in about 40 contracts to nearly two dozen agencies, according to GovSpend, a company that keeps tabs on government spending. The records and AP’s reporting provide the first public account of the extensive use of Fog Reveal by local police, according to analysts and legal experts who scrutinize such technologies.

  • ‘Science of reading’ movement spells financial trouble for publisher Heinemann

    By Christopher Peak | April 30, 2024 | APM Reports Heinemann published some of the most widely used programs for teaching reading in U.S. elementary schools. Its roster of authors — including Lucy Calkins, Gay Su Pinnell, Irene Fountas, Jennifer Serravallo and the late Marie Clay — helped to define how literacy was taught ...

  • Women-owned small businesses win record $25.5B in federal contracts

    By Peter Musurlian | April 2nd, 2024 | Federal News Network Women-owned small businesses won more federal contracting dollars in fiscal 2023 than ever before. New data from Fedmine, a government business intelligence platform, shows women-owned small firms won more than $25.5 billion in federal contracts last year, up from $22.6 billion in 2022. ...

  • Cell Phone Pouches Promise to Improve Focus at School. Kids Aren’t Convinced

    By Andrew R. Chow | March 27th, 2024 | Time Magazine Eastlake High School now is one of thousands of schools across the world that have turned to Yondr in order to combat phone addiction and distraction. Founded in 2014, Yondr has rapidly expanded since the pandemic and now serves more than 1 million ...

  • Schools Adopt ‘Equitable Grading’ Despite Pushback

    September 15, 2023. FOX Business’ Lydia Hu joined ‘Varney & Co.’ to discuss her reporting on the rise of ‘equitable grading’ in certain school districts in the US, which leveraged GovSpend's Agency purchasing data to identify school districts spending on those initiatives. View News Report

  • Banned in D.C. Examining Government Approaches to Foreign Technology Threats

    By Jack Corrigan, Sergio Fontanez, Michael Kratsios, October 2022 Between 2015 and 2021, at least 1,681 state and local governments purchased equipment and services tied to the five companies named in Section 889. Every state except Vermont had at least one state or local government entity procure ICTS covered under Section 889 (there were ...