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The Nebraska Purchasing Group now provides centralized access to all state government bids, RFPs, and contracts through the BidNet Direct platform.
Government professionals in NE can streamline vendor research and stay competitive on state procurement opportunities through a single portal.
FindRFP offers a centralized database of Nebraska bids, RFPs, and government contracts from state and local governments.
Government professionals in NE can streamline procurement research and identify new contracting opportunities in one place.
GOVCB now provides centralized listings of Nebraska state government bids, contracts, award histories, bid matching, forecasts, and sealed bids across state, local, and educational purchasing agencies.
Nebraska government professionals can streamline vendor research and competitive bidding by accessing a single repository of active and historical procurement opportunities.
Nebraska Bid Network aggregates construction bids, government bids, and procurement solicitations including RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
Government professionals in NE can streamline vendor discovery and stay competitive on state and local contracting opportunities.
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Less-restricted federal employees may engage in partisan political activity off-duty — but never on-duty, never in the workplace, never using government property, and never while wearing identifying agency clothing. Social media posts from a personal device while on duty count as on-duty activity.
Hatch Act violations carry penalties from reprimand to removal. Career employees with strong records have been removed for posts that took 30 seconds to write at lunch.
Before incurring any cost on a federal grant, the question is whether 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Guidance) treats the cost as allowable, allocable, and reasonable. "Reasonable" is the most-litigated of the three; auditors will second-guess it after the fact using a prudent-person standard.
Disallowed costs must be repaid, with interest, and in serious cases trigger pass-through audits of other grants. The standard does not distinguish between intent and oversight.
Most state open-meeting laws require posted notice with sufficient specificity for the public to know what is being decided. Generic "discussion of personnel matters" or "old business" descriptions routinely fail challenge, voiding any vote taken on items not specifically noticed.
A voided action requires a re-vote at a properly noticed meeting — including any contract execution that depended on it. Counterparties to voided contracts have leverage they did not have before the defect surfaced.
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