Government of South Australia Shares Guidance on Market Analysis in Public Procurement
May 2, 2017
The Government of South Australia shares their guidelines for conducting in-depth and rigorous market analyses. Organizations often conduct basic “market research” or gather up some “market intelligence”, but without conducting rigorous and practical analyses and/or lacking in an eye toward...
Procurement and Supplier Relationship Management at the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command
May 1, 2017
This report begins with an in depth discussion on suppler relationship management (SRM) best practices with an emphasis on early engagement and supplier development.
The majority of the report is focused on a robust case study of current SRM practices at the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command, and the...
Eight Trends in Federal Contracting
Apr 30, 2017
Bloomberg Government’s Kevin Brancato, director of government contracts research, discussed eight trends in federal contracting he sees continuing to grow in the near futures. Some of those were initiatives kicked off by the Obama administration, including an emphasis on category management,...
Reverse Auctions: Guidelines for Federal Contractors
Dec 23, 2016
Acquisition professionals and contract officers are besieged by a variety of different sourcing solutions designed to help them reduce their purchased cost of materials and services. For example, the FedBid reverse auction tool was widely recommended as a competitive tool available to contract...
Procurement Problems in Texas: Workforce Solutions Alamo
Dec 8, 2016
Ask anyone in procurement what they most worry about, and most times, you will get an answer that includes the word “afraid.” From fancy corner offices to the cubicles filled with those of the front lines of the agency, there is always that “afraid” factor—worried that an unintentional...
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...
Roundup of weekly news from the European Public Market
Sep 21, 2016
This is our weekly European public procurement news round-up. We will be bringing you recent public sector stories and information from around Europe’s news portals, reporting on how more than a trillion Euros of taxpayer money is being spent. This will become part of a future initiative to bring...
Know Your Agreements: The Difference Between BPAs and BOAs in Federal Contracting
Aug 30, 2016
Federal Contracting Professionals Can Use These Flexible Arrangements To Maximize Procurement Outcomes
We ran a story in our daily Public Spend Forum Newswire about the Army’s intent to establish a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to support its transition of legacy applications into the commercial...
2015 Challenges for Public Procurement – Austerity
Jan 25, 2015
We listed our six challenges for public procurement in 2015 at the beginning of the month. Here they are again.
Challenge no.1; Implementation of New Directives
Challenge no.2; Austerity continues
Challenge no.3; Social issues
Challenge no. 4; Value and Innovation
Challenge no.5; The Fight against...
Contracting Authorities Post Brexit with No Deal
Lexology outlines what an EU departure will mean for the UK without an exit deal. A range of outcomes remains possible, it says, and it is important for businesses to plan. It looks at the potential impact of a no-deal Brexit on public sector procurement law and explains how UK contracting...
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 …