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Six Ways for Public Procurement Buyers to Get the Best Price
May 31, 2017
Competitive pricing is predicated on a keen understanding of a number of factors, including a market and its suppliers, internal user requirements and their demand patterns, and alignment with the user community. Several sophisticated techniques can and should be explored to determine their...
Welcome to The World’s Largest Library of Public Procurement Best Practices
May 31, 2017
At Public Spend Forum, we believe knowledge is the key to unlocking the potential value of public procurement, government contracting and acquisition. That is why we are pursuing an ambitious goal, to organize and make available practical and actionable information, data and learning content that...
GSA and DHS to Use Alliant for Cybersecurity Program
May 31, 2017
The General Services Administration and the Department of Homeland Security announced they have chosen the Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC) for its future continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program purchases. GSA and DHS expect to spend around $3 billion through a new...
Defense Contractor Settles Fraud Allegations for Nearly $350 Million
May 31, 2017
Agility Public Warehousing Co. KSC, a Kuwaiti company, has agreed to resolve criminal, civil, and administrative cases that alleged Agility overcharged the Department of Defense (DoD) on contracts to supply food to U.S. troops from 2003 to 2010. The company will pay $95 million to resolve civil...
Three Former White House Officials on Challenges in Federal Acquisition
May 31, 2017
I’m personally fatigued by the never-ending dialogue on procurement and acquisition reform in the public sector, and specifically in the federal government. One reason I strongly believe we don’t get anywhere is we’ve never had agreement on what we’re trying achieve from the procurement and...
CGI Joins Collective Buying Program
May 31, 2017
The National Association of State Procurement Officials’ (NASPO) ValuePoint cooperative procurement program helps states and local governments leverage their collective buying power to procure goods and services at reduced costs. The latest large company to join the program is CGI, which...
The False Promise of Scale in Public Procurement and Government Contracting
May 31, 2017
Procurement and acquisition professionals often struggle with the tradeoffs of “scale economies” versus “socio-economic goals.” The assumption derives from a false premise that bigger companies and bigger contracts inherently yield lower cost. But, that assumption fails to understand the...
Top 5 Stories of the Week for Government Procurement Leaders
May 30, 2017
As leaders in government procurement and contracting, you have enough challenges to keep you very busy, making it nearly impossible to keep up with the latest leadership advice, best practices and case studies. To make things easier, I have compiled my favorite stories of the past two weeks. ...
NAO on Commercial & Contract Management – Properly Evaluate Bids
May 30, 2017
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...
Procura+ Awards 2017: Call For Applications From European Cities
May 30, 2017
The Procura+ Awards, run by ICLEI, showcase the achievements of European cities’ sustainable and innovative procurement projects.They are now open for 2017 applications. There are three award categories: Sustainable Procurement of the Year, Innovation Procurement of the Year and Tender...
Israel Discussing Reciprocal Defence Procurement With Italy
May 30, 2017
Israel is discussing the purchase of new helicopters from Italian firm Leonardo, through Elbit Systems Ltd. the subcontractor on the project. This is on condition of a reciprocal defence procurement between the two governments. Also in the bidding are US company Bell and European company Airbus....
Case Studies on E-procurement Implementation in the Public Sector
May 30, 2017
This report released by the Government of Australia Information Management Office provides a summary of the issues, key learnings and challenges associated with the five public E-procurement implementations that participated in the review of public E-procurement implementations. This information...
