Hacker News with Generative AI: Procurement

Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA (theregister.com)
President Trump's latest executive order takes aim at federal IT procurement, moving to centralize how Uncle Sam buys tech across agencies.
Understanding Doge as Procurement Capture (anildash.com)
For the last few months, there's been a lot of conversation around the "Department" of Government Efficiency, which is ostensibly an effort at improving government efficency, with a primary narrative being around government spending.
Russia's largest platform for state procurement hit by cyberattack (therecord.media)
Russia’s main electronic trading platform for government and corporate procurement confirmed on Monday that it had been targeted by a cyberattack after initially claiming that outages were caused by “maintenance work.”