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Price Verification – ‘Basic Function or Lost Art’
Oct 11, 2017
When making a purchase using a State, Federal or Cooperative contract, or even a purchase off a public agency’s own contract, that is based on a percent discount off a manufacturers list price; are public agencies performing the extensive due diligence necessary to ensure they are being charged...
Technological and Digital Procurement Category Strategy
Oct 10, 2017
The Local Government Association of the UK issued a comprehensive category strategy guide for purchasing technology products and services. In the foreword to the document, Theo Blackwell, cabinet member for finance, technology and growth at the London Borough of Camden, said: “‘Digital is...
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 Big is YOUR Procurement Team—And Can You Really Justify It?
Sep 26, 2017
I’ve always held the view that as a Procurement leader you must be able to demonstrate value – and to me that includes the cost of your team vs. the savings, cost reductions efficiencies and business improvements you look to achieve. Essentially a good return on investment.
Lately, however,...
Modernizing Legacy Systems through a Share-in-Savings Approach
Sep 21, 2017
Government professionals looking to modernize their legacy IT systems have reason to be optimistic as we begin the new fiscal year. Building on the Trump Administration’s sustained interest in improving government technology (a trail well blazed by his predecessor) is a renewed appetite for...
Here’s How the Government Could Better Track Contract Spending
Sep 21, 2017
Lexis Nexis and the Data Foundation, a government-transparency focused advocacy group, released a report that makes a case for a decentralized but standard ID tag for all legal entities. A unified and verified code could “create a single electronic view of all legal entities, knit together from...
Procurement Technology Could Be The Answer To Government Efficiency And Effectiveness
Sep 19, 2017
Download a preview of Public Spend Forum’s inaugural Public Procurement Technology report today! Join us for the first ever Public Procurement Technology Symposium, to be held on October 18, 2017.
As governments all around the world search for ways to be more efficient and better serve their...
The Next Big Thing in IT Procurement
Sep 14, 2017
At the beginning of the summer, I published a blog on how the Department of Homeland Security had tried an innovative approach to its FLASH competition for an agile contracting BPA, run into problems evaluating bidders, and finally withdrew the procurement — with DHS Chief Procurement Officer...
4 Things You Market to the Government that Won’t Win a Contract
Sep 8, 2017
Momma always told me, “If someone else can claim it, it ain’t a competitive advantage.” Take that as Rule #1 in marketing to anybody, whether B2C, B2B, or B2G. OK, maybe it wasn’t my sainted mother that memorialized that piece of wisdom. It may have been a Vistage speaker I saw years ago...
Strategies for Procurement Success
Sep 7, 2017
Government Technology provides examples on how to find procurement success at federal and local levels by examining models that other jurisdictions have explored. Taking direction from industry leaders, this article describes a current state where agencies are historically reluctant to adopt...
Crown Commercial Service Has Ambitious Plans for All Public Sector Buying
Sep 5, 2017
The UK’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) buys common goods and services for much of the UK central government, and its deals are also widely used amongst the wider public sector (health, local government etc).
CCS and its predecessor organisations have not exactly been at the forefront of...
