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Should Public Sector Be Contracting for Outcomes
Sep 29, 2017
There has been much talk in recent years about the need for public sector procurement of services (in particular) to focus more on outcomes rather than specifying in detail the activities that the supplier will carry out.
That principle can be applied to many services, from cleaning to professional...
An e-Library for Accessing Best Practice Public Procurement Across the EU
Sep 29, 2017
Next month the European Commission intends to release a new tool for sharing good practices and solutions to common public procurement challenges, to improve the compliance and quality of public procurement across the EU. A special workshop “Procurement for better results: sharing of good...
How a Taiwanese Government Innovation Could Solve a Peculiarly American Problem
Aug 30, 2017
The latest excuse for Americans to divide themselves into warring camps is over the fate of Confederate Civil War monuments. One camp says these are offensive lionizations of slaveholders, while the other says they are part of our heritage and that taking them down disrespects our history.
I will...
What Can Blockchain Do for Public Procurement?
Aug 28, 2017
How Government Agencies Can Revolutionize Their Interactions with Citizens
To some extent, blockchain technology is like an iceberg. What you see is just one tiny fraction of what is hidden beneath the surface. Most people have heard of the blockchain in connection with digital currencies, such as...
Agile Procurement for the Public Sector
Aug 19, 2017
TRADITIONAL PRACTICES VS MODERN-DAY REALITIES
Public sector procurement practices are based on the fundamental principles that procurement must be fair, open, and transparent. That you must say what you will do, say so in a public fashion, and do what you said you would do. This is founded on the...
Public Procurement Technology Symposium
Aug 16, 2017
Technology is changing procurement—in nearly all aspects.
Yet, adoption of technology in the public sector, in spite of global government spending almost $10 trillion every year, is very low.
Public Spend Forum, in collaboration with academia and experts from around the world, will...
Procurement Technology: Why is the Public Sector Absent from the Table?
Aug 9, 2017
While private sector companies invest billions to innovate and create commercial technologies that streamline and improve the procurement process, the federal government (especially) and local governments (to some degree) continue to lag way behind, choosing to build custom applications and...
Why Government Contractors Don’t Have Private Sector Clients
Aug 9, 2017
If you pay attention to the federal market, you’ll notice something strange. Few small businesses successfully manage to support commercial and federal sector clients at the same time. Here’s some data: Over the past five years about 80 companies have scored repeat performances on Washington...
The Five Ways to Get the Most Out of Category Management
Aug 9, 2017
In the never-ending quest to deliver more value, procurement organizations are trying to squeeze more savings and innovation out of spend categories. But, eventually the well starts to run dry, and when that happens, you need to either get more out of that well (fracking for spend savings,...
6 Guidelines for Drone Acquisition
Aug 2, 2017
Drones have many potential and diverse applications for government, but with the technological and regulatory environment quickly evolving, purchasing them presents different procurement challenges. The National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) recently released guidance on the...
4 Signs the RFP is Wired
Aug 1, 2017
Summer is the silly season in federal government contracting. When it comes to business development, many events that most of us go to are on temporary hiatus until September to allow for vacations that limit attendance, so what do we do? Well, there tends to be no shortage of bidding...
Supporting Public Procurement in Europe – Recommendations for Open Data Sharing Published
Jul 28, 2017
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of public sector data across Europe. Supporting Public Procurement in Europe it released this week (24 July) 4 Recommendations for Open Data Sharing published as ICT technical specifications. The...
