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What will Donald Trump’s management agenda be?
Nov 17, 2016
There is one thing I think I know about Donald Trump’s management agenda: I am guessing he likes the General Services Administration.
After all, GSA awarded him the contract to redevelop the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue into a Trump hotel, which opened ahead of his scheduled commitment...
Admitting How Little You Know Will Help You Build Genuine Relationships
Nov 17, 2016
It’s well established that “the best leaders are insatiable learners,” as Bill Taylor, founder of Fast Company, once said. I would argue that that same trait is true of people that are best at building genuine relationships. In fact, “Learn every day through every interaction” is one my...
When Corrective Action is Incorrect
Nov 16, 2016
Sometime in the next month, we’ll receive the annual report on the number of bid protests filed against federal agencies, and if the trendline continues, there will have been more protests filed in fiscal 2016 than in previous years. And while the number has been increasing, the percentage of...
Procurement: Friend or Foe of Innovation?
Nov 16, 2016
The first panel discussion at the recent European Commission Innovative Public Procurement conference in Berlin was titled Procurement of Innovation – Friend or Foe? A slightly obscure title – we think it means whether public procurement is a friend or foe of innovation generally?
There has...
U.S. Public Sector News 11/16
Nov 16, 2016
It’s difficult to keep track of all of the news published that impacts the public sector market every day. That’s why the Public Spend Forum Newswire captures and synthesizes the new policies, regulations, thought leadership and legislation that is changing and influencing your job. Here are a...
A Toolbox for Challenging Procurements in Central Europe
Nov 16, 2016
Those who know a little about public procurement probably assume that all EU countries work to the same rules – the “EU Regulations” as we tend to say. The slightly more knowledgeable will know of the Directives that define how public procurement should be executed. But actually, because the...
U.S. Public Sector News 11/15
Nov 15, 2016
It’s difficult to keep track of all of the news published that impacts the public sector market every day. That’s why the Public Spend Forum Newswire captures and synthesizes the new policies, regulations, thought leadership and legislation that is changing and influencing your job. Here are a...
DIUx: Raj Shah on the “Art of the Possible”
Nov 15, 2016
We so often hear about how difficult it is for the Department of Defense to work with smaller or newer businesses, that it’s often easy to write off any potential working relationship as dead in the water. But that’s exactly why the Pentagon created the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental...
Willem Janssen on in-house contracts and public cooperation issues
Nov 15, 2016
Dr. Pedro Telles of Swansea University has been conducting a series of interviews, the Public Procurement Podcasts (PPP), supported by the British Academy Rising Star Engagement Awards, where he interviews leading academics, researchers and graduates who have an interesting viewpoint on aspects of...
It’s Time to Fix the Presidential Election Process
Nov 15, 2016
Whether you were on the #TrumpTrain and supported #HillaryforPrison or whether you were with her all along, wanted to make #NeverTrump a reality and to elect #HillaryClinton as the first female President, we can all agree on one thing on the “morning after” the election: Our long national...
Can Economics Fix Public Procurement
Nov 14, 2016
From Governing Magazine – By Raj Sharma
We talk a lot about “procurement reform.” Instead, we should be looking at government purchasing through the lens of economics and how markets really work.
There is plenty of consensus that government procurement needs a lot of fixing. But do we...
Global Public Procurement Benchmaking
Nov 14, 2016
The World Bank is about to roll out its 2017 Global Public Procurement Benchmarking Report. It will be presented on December 5 at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC:
https://www.uschamber.com/event/benchmarking-public-procurement-2017
About Benchmarking Public procurement...
