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Strategic sourcing enters a new age. Are you keeping up? (Part 1)

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Since its inception in the late 1980s, strategic sourcing has always been about getting the best value for the goods and services purchased from third party suppliers. Strategic sourcing requires an intense focus on the total cost of ownership, while incorporating customer needs, organizational goals, and market conditions.

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5G: The Transformation of Defense Networks

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Ben joined GSA in 2015 as an IT Specialist. In his role he works closely with multiple government agencies to address their unique enterprise and mission enabling communications requirements, as well as commercial industry partners to identify capabilities and emerging technologies to address customers’ mobility and SATCOM requirements.

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The Future of 5G in Defense and Beyond

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Ben joined GSA in 2015 as an IT Specialist. In his role he works closely with multiple government agencies to address their unique enterprise and mission enabling communications requirements, as well as commercial industry partners to identify capabilities and emerging technologies to address customers’ mobility and SATCOM requirements.

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5G as a Digital Transformation Accelerant

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Ben joined GSA in 2015 as an IT Specialist. In his role he works closely with multiple government agencies to address their unique enterprise and mission enabling communications requirements, as well as commercial industry partners to identify capabilities and emerging technologies to address customers’ mobility and SATCOM requirements.

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AI effort to improve contractor performance ratings stalls

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Mike Smith, a former director of strategic sourcing at DHS and now executive vice president at GovConRx, said with the successes of the DHS and other pilots, he hoped the FAR Council would take up this project and support CPARs reforms. But if everyone is rated satisfactory, then CPARs has little to no real value.”