Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This really just is category management in action when we look at the opportunity for the government to buy as a single enterprise. The bill calls for agencies to conduct an inventory and improve the overall management of software. Microsoft is the first of what is expected to be many enterprisewide deals.

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Inventory Price Purchasing Negotiation 87

FedScoop

AUGUST 20, 2024

Modernizing as a way to save money The GAO renewed its calls from 2016 for OMB to “commit to a firm date” for when guidance on identifying legacy systems to be updated or replaced will be issued; the watchdog said that it is aware of a draft guidance for this effort.

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Electronics Inventory Data Transparency 129

How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For example, if a product cost £10 in 2015-16 and reduced to £9 in 2016-17, Supply Chain would report a saving of £1. If it remained at £9 in 2017-18, Supply Chain would report a total saving of £2 (re-counting the £1 saved in 2016-17).

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Supply Chain Procurement Price Efficiency 64

Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

Strengthen preventive measures : Continue work to further reduce the number of justifications for single-source procurement in the Public Procurement Law and improve the qualifications of procurement officers, category managers, and employees of antimonopoly authorities. Footnotes 1.

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Procurement Public Procurement Tender E-procurement 52

ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

Challenges in this new manufacturer/supplier partnership Burton cites include: Risk management. This means category managers must work with suppliers much differently and evaluate them based on a wider array of factors. The post The Future of Procurement Is Upon Us. Are You Ready?

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Supply Chain Procurement Supplier Global Sourcing 45

Federal News Network

JANUARY 1, 2024

As part of this effort, OFPP proposed a new circular in November, which would establish a new acquisition data management policy that would require agencies to create policies, processes and tools for acquisition data sharing. Part of that effort means improving the management of software purchasing.

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Category Management Innovation Budget Management 83

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We are leaps and bounds ahead of where we were, especially since if you think about from the 2016 timeframe when I was here during the Obama administration, with the amount of data that we have across the federal enterprise,” Harada said in an exclusive interview with Federal News Network. “The

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Data Contract Price Negotiation 111