Evolving Procurement Through Technology, Diversity, and Cooperative Purchasing
Jun 19, 2019
Episode 16 of the Public Procurement Leaders Podcast featuring Tammy Rimes
As a career purchasing agent for the City of San Diego, Tammy Rimes has witnessed procurement evolution firsthand. “In the past, for something as simple as a streetlight, we’d look at the specs and buy the same light...
Opportunity to Boost Public Procurement Power
Jun 13, 2019
ICLEI has a couple of opportunities to help buyers engage with suppliers and other public authorities across Europe to discover and shape new innovative solutions for their procurement needs. It helps link up procurement plans and requirements with funded projects that can bring buyers and...
The Ultimate Guide to Finding Keywords for your Government Market Research
Jun 7, 2019
Conducting market research can be a long and difficult process in certain cases, especially for complex items and services or items that you may have never purchased. Many government contracting professionals don’t know where to begin, or how to research effectively, so they waste time and energy...
The Best GovCon Resources for Market & Supplier Research
May 31, 2019
When it comes to doing your best government market research, it’s not enough to simply rely on Google or web-based search. You need to use a mix of resources to find your top government contractors. Whether it’s a list of government contractors or a database of labor rates paid, you can find...
The Seven Steps to Superior Government Market Research
May 17, 2019
At Public Spend Forum, we think market research, expertise, and analysis is a critical capability for public sector contracting professionals. And we aren’t alone. In a study on workforce competencies commissioned by The Volcker Alliance and supported by our Public Spend Forum research team, we...
Relative Pricing of Commercial Items: GSA Advantage Pricing vs. State, Local and Educational Institutions
Mar 19, 2019
By Daria Mathew, VP of XSB
Federal, State, Local, and Educational (SLED) institutions buy tens of billions of catalog-type items (e.g., office supplies, MRO, IT, janitorial and sanitation supplies, electrical parts, medical supplies, emergency supplies, etc.) every year. Public sector buyers...
CMA Says Government Staff Need Training on Market Analysis
Mar 14, 2019
We wrote last month about the UK Gov outsourcing playbook to help improve government procurement, how government works with industry and deliver better public services. Catering Insight this month writes that the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) recommends that staff need to be trained in...
The Procurement Economy in 2019: UK and EU
Jan 24, 2019
As relevant for public sector as for private, Jaggaer, a specialist in the public sector procurement technology market, has produced a briefing paper on the 2019 economic outlook both in the US and the European Union, and examines how procurement organisations can best prepare. It discusses Brexit...
IT Public Procurement Predictions 2019
Jan 3, 2019
Computer World UK is running an interesting post on IT analysts’ public sector technology predictions for 2019. “The government will need to ensure that its IT systems can cope with any outcome of Brexit,” it says. “Brexit will lead to the increase in the number of UK central government...
Recap & Recording: Draining the Data Swamp with Smarter Procurement Analytics
Mar 9, 2018
What’s the Number One most important thing that an organization can do succeed with procurement analytics?
That question and several more were answered in a recent Public Spend Forum webinar with special guest Rob Handfied, Professor of Supply Chain Management at NC State University and Executive...
New Consolidated SDVOSB Eligibility Requirements: the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly
Oct 3, 2018
New, consolidated SDVOSB eligibility regulations kicked in on October 1. The new regulations replace the old VA and SBA rules, which provided separate eligibility standards for SDVOSBs.
Veterans have long been confused by the fact that the Government operated two separate SDVOSB programs, each...
Public Spend Forum’s Public Procurement Weekly Roundup
Sep 14, 2018
Spending on cloud services could reach billions in 2018, GSA moves closer to replacing DUNS, and a new GAO report calls out major cyber security challenges. All this and more in Public Spend Forum’s Weekly Roundup for September 14, 2018.
Federal Spending on Cloud Services to Reach $6.5 Billion...
Case Studies
The public sector is undergoing massive changes with greater fiscal spending, tax changes, constrained budgets and much more scrutiny and regulation. Public procurement and finance …
On Wednesday, June 6, Public Spend Forum convened a Technology Procurement Symposium to identify barriers to government’s adoption of emerging technology and to …
Public Spend Forum runs a series of best practice public procurement webinars which explore how procurement professionals can and are using technology, leaner processes and …