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Challenges and Prizes Toolkit: GSA’s Guide to Getting It Right

Dec 22, 2016
We’ve written a lot recently about the effectiveness of challenges and prizes in public procurement, particularly in bringing in potential suppliers who exist far outside the orbit of the standard marketplace. The U.S. Agency for International Development, for instance, has used challenges to...

Ebook: Market Insights For Purchasing IT Hardware

Dec 20, 2016
Understanding markets and supplier capabilities is critical to engaging a market, developing a purchasing strategy and meeting your organizational needs. Given how time intensive and time-consuming market intelligence can be, we have tried to make the job a little easier. Public Spend Forum teamed...

How to Measure Public Procurement Performance With the Right Metrics

Dec 18, 2016
The way government selects and analyzes procurement metrics is often not aligned with measuring value or desired outcomes. We see it again and again in Government Accountability Office reports, or in comments from industry, but telling someone what’s wrong only takes them so far. It’s a vital...

Five Minutes for Better Communication with Industry

Dec 15, 2016
Late last month, the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council proposed an unusual rule, one that specifically stated that agencies are encouraged to engage in “responsible and constructive exchanges with industry, so long as those exchanges are consistent with existing laws and regulations, and...

Public Procurement News Round-up | 12/6/2016

Dec 6, 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...

Public Spend Forum Newswire | 12/6/2016

Dec 6, 2016
Donald Trump Wants Government to “Cancel Order” on Air Force One President-Elect Donald Trump shone a spotlight on procurement this morning when he tweeted, “Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel...

Public Spend Forum Newswire | 12/2/2016

Dec 2, 2016
Concerns Over Category Management Policy Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, writes that there are “significant questions and concerns surrounding,” the draft circular put forward by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on implementing category...

Public Procurement News Round-up | 12/2/16

Dec 2, 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...

Public Procurement News Round-up | 12/1/2016

Dec 1, 2016
How Will GSA Resolve Potential Conflict of Interest with Trump Hotel? The pressure is growing on the General Services Administration (GSA) and President-Elect Donald Trump to determine the legality of the latter’s 60-year lease on the hotel he built at the old Post Office site. The ranking...

5 Minutes to Better Brainstorming

Nov 21, 2016
If you haven’t yet, you should check out our brand new Public Spend Forum YouTube channel, where we’re posting a lot of short videos that offer practical tips to help you in your job every day. In one of our latest, retired Air Force acquisition officer and author Dan Ward talks about a really...