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Ten Ways to Improve Federal IT Acquisition and Procurement
Oct 24, 2016
With many agencies still struggling to implement the requirements in the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), a new white paper from Censeo Consulting Group and Rich Beutel—the original staff author of FITARA—makes ten recommendations to help agencies take the...
Building Healthy Buyer-Supplier Relationships
Oct 24, 2016
From local government all the way up to federal agencies, the public sector often has a tough time working closely with the private sector, and understanding its needs. Regulations, fear of appearing to violate a code of conduct, there are many barriers to strong buyer-supplier relationships at...
Understanding Total Lifecycle Cost
Oct 24, 2016
If you’ve read our previous paper on the levers of procurement value, (“What Drives Public Procurement Value?,” available to registered members of Public Spend Forum) you know I outlined four areas where you can achieve the many goals of procurement while also fulfilling your mission needs....
Strategic Market Intelligence
Oct 24, 2016
Strategic market analysis is a much-needed tool in the public sector shed, and yet it’s often overlooked for more short-term, transactional capabilities.
This introduction to strategic market analysis helps define why market intelligence is important, what role it plays in...
How the Navy Is Helping to Lead the Way with Green Procurements
Oct 23, 2016
Green Tech Media reports that the U.S. Navy has made strides in lessening its carbon footprint and adopting green energy through “massive solar procurements, used submarine battery storage projects and microgrids on bases.” The site points to the recent opening of a solar farm in Arizona that...
How Technology Can Improve Public Procurement
Oct 21, 2016
It’s no secret that procurement technology can have a major impact on how public organizations perform. It’s a topic we’ve written about over the last couple years, and it’s one we’ve seen crop up in a variety of news stories of late. Often, the news stories, like so many, focus on what...
Watch our Webinar: Procurement and Spend Analytics
Oct 20, 2016
Public Spend Forum recently hosted a webinar on procurement and spend analytics, with Professor Joseph Sandor of Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business giving an introduction to analytics, and Dan Warn of our sponsor BravoSolution walking through a couple of case studies of how...
Breakthrough Event: Driving Public Value through Private Sector Innovation
Oct 20, 2016
We know governments face enormous challenges, and we know the innovation fostered by private sector partners and suppliers that is critical to tackling those challenges. And yet all over the world governments have placed huge and unnecessary barriers in place in the name of protecting themselves,...
Is the U.S. Bid Protest System “Absurd?”
Oct 20, 2016
Former Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra called the current bid protest system “absurd,” saying it mostly just delays progress, without actually helping contractors, according to an article in Nextgov. “This protest thing really ticks me off; it is so pathetic,” Chopra said at...
Public Spend Forum Celebrates Open Markets with Launch Party
Oct 20, 2016
If I had to sum up the Public Spend Forum launch party in one anecdote, it’d be this one. Just before the party got going, before I was wearing a name tag that identified me as a PSF loyalist, I was chatting with an early arrival. The conversation inevitably turned to why he had chosen to...
Risk Aversion in Public Sector Procurement
Oct 18, 2016
One of the topics that came up at the recent Public Spend Forum Europe Exchange kick-off meeting was attitudes towards risk amongst the public sector procurement community. Our senior group, from across many different parts of the public sector, discussed how risk aversion could hold back...
Is DIUx Innovating the Way the Pentagon Intended?
Oct 18, 2016
While the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental (DIUx) was set up to engage smaller, innovative firms that typically are outside the defense market, Federal News Radio notes that the two largest contracts recently awarded through DIUx went to established defense...
