Insights on Buying Strategies for the Public Sector
Jan 31, 2018
Public procurement veteran Steve Gordon talks best practices, future of cooperative purchasing, and much more. In interviews he’s conducted with officials at large public procurement agencies, Gordon has found that procurement teams tend to focus their research on price and cost-savings and not...
Ireland Joins OpenPEPPOL for eInvoicing Compliance
Jan 26, 2018
PEPPOL enables businesses to communicate electronically with any European government institution in the procurement process, allowing public agencies and private enterprises to do business easily and quickly. OpenPEPPOL is the multi-lateral agreement structure that governs it. Ireland’s Minister...
NAO on Commercial & Contract Management (Final Insight)
Jan 24, 2018
Around a year ago, the UK’s National Audit Office issued a very useful document titled “Commercial and contract management: insights and emerging best practice”. We did provide an initial overview of it here, and now we are into a more detailed review of its content and findings. For each of...
PEPPOL – Is Your Business Ready?
Jan 24, 2018
As we reported in our latest news roundup, Ireland’s Minister of State with special responsibility for Public Procurement, has signed an agreement with OpenPEPPOL. ‘As a PEPPOL Authority member, Ireland will participate in the development and governance of the PEPPOL network. Ireland will now...
Council Of Europe’s Anti-Corruption Monitoring Body Report
Jan 18, 2018
The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring body Groups of States Against Corruption (GRECO) assesses evaluations of countries’ levels of compliance with corruption prevention. These reports contain recommendations to the evaluated countries in order to improve their compliance. It has...
Buying Procurement Technology Webinar: Meet our Panel
Jan 16, 2018
We’re just a few days away from the next in our series of How to Buy Procurement Technology webinars. What started with advice on how to get started with a procurement technology acquisition has evolved to a panel of expert suppliers and industry consultants ready to share their wisdom with our...
Commercial & Contract Management – Contract End Upfront
Jan 15, 2018
At the end of last year, the UK’s National Audit Office issued a very useful document titled “Commercial and contract management: insights and emerging best practice”. We did provide an initial overview of it here, and now we are into a more detailed review of its content and findings. For...
3 Steps to Increase Your Agency’s FITARA Incremental Development Score
Jan 10, 2018
In our last blog, we addressed three steps your agency can take to get a better MEGABYTE grade on the FITARA scorecard. In the second installation of this series, we address steps your agency can take to improve your Incremental Development score.
Agencies have historically struggled to...
Satisfied with your procurement expertise? Jack Pellegrino shares advice for continual learning.
Jan 8, 2018
On this most recent episode of the Public Procurement Leaders podcast, host Raj Sharma interviewed Jack Pellegrino, Director of the Office of Purchasing and Contracting for the County of San Diego about what excites him about his job, his organization’s response to the wildfires that impacted...
After Consolidating, Louisiana IT Continues to Improve Cybersecurity
Jan 4, 2018
Louisiana set out to upgrade its computer systems and consolidating its IT efforts under the executive branch in 2014. Since the major overhaul, the state is saving millions of dollars and officials say that it’s well positioned to protect information from security threats. “A...
Simple Advice for Procurement Success in 2018
Jan 3, 2018
As Spend Matters gets back in the swing of things in the new year with full coverage of topics, Peter Smith addresses prospects for 2018 as well as suggesting some resolutions, ideas or goals that procurement professionals might want to adopt. He covers four key points wishes readers a happy,...
Doing Market-Making Doesn’t Mean You’ve Made a Market
Dec 27, 2017
Market-making is an activity or process that is a relatively new element within the procurement periodic table. It started being used in the public sector in the UK perhaps 15-20 years ago, although arguably something resembling it has no doubt been going on for longer.
It applies when an...
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Policies and Regulations
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Perspectives and Insights
I have been interested in the question of getting successful commercial companies, especially tech companies, to sell to the government from the time I was …
The Contractor Accountability and Transparency Act of 2017 (S. 651), introduced by Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Jon Tester, D-Mont., is yet another example of a …
Think you know all about public sector owned professional buying organisations (PBOs) and what they do? Here are ten interesting facts that might just surprise …