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Ten years later, agencies still making gains on category management

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And while no one would say government purchasing has exactly become simple in the intervening 10 years, category management and best-in-class contracting have done their share of work toward making things better. The increase in the value of best-in-class contracts over the past four years. of spending was characterized as under management.

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This is NOT thought leadership, it’s practical talk about Supplier Value Management

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attempt to make a point about the relative value of strategic sourcing, I failed to realize that thought leadership is apparently the exclusive domain of pundits. The co-dependency that is increasingly common between suppliers and their customers is gradually eroding out-of-date bullying tactics in purchasing.

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This is NOT Thought Leadership, it’s Practical Talk About Supplier Value Management

ivalua

attempt to make a point about the relative value of strategic sourcing, I failed to realize that thought leadership is apparently the exclusive domain of pundits. The co-dependency that is increasingly common between suppliers and their customers is gradually eroding out-of-date bullying tactics in purchasing.

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Friday Flash 09/20/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

The plan includes five FOCAL Priority Areas considered essential to aligning with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014. The only exceptions are for contracts solely for the purchase of Commercial Off-the-Shelf items or contracts under the $10,000 micro-purchase threshold. James Peake , M.D.,

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Friday Flash 01/17/2025

The Coalition for Government Procurement

CSF, first published in 2014 and updated in 2024, offers detailed guidance on cybersecurity. Army contracts: the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 3 Services (ITES-3S) and the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3). The draft updates NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) from version 1.1