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Federal Addendum to Standard Contract for AWS Marketplace now available

AWS Public Sector

In 2019, AWS Marketplace worked with legal, procurement, and sales leaders from our buyer and seller communities to develop the SCMP, a pre-negotiated agreement designed to capture common ground between buyers and sellers. The SCMP has helped accelerate contract approvals by up to 80 percent. Who can benefit from SCMP+FA?

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. The data also indicates that buyers are making a concerted effort to improve their planning.

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Is e-Procurement Free For Buyers?

Mercell

By telephone, the buyer let me know that the offer seemed very reasonable and that she was going to ask for approval from her manager. As a seasoned buyer, she went to her manager with 2 other offers. Why would the ‘free-for-buyers’ solution care about increasing the efficiency and raising the quality of the work of buyers?

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Procurious Webinar, September 3, 2019

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Date: 3 September 2019. This involved designing and building solutions to support the Source to Pay and Order to Cash journeys for Buyers and Suppliers. The post Procurious Webinar, September 3, 2019 appeared first on Ivalua. Event Type: Webinar in partnership with Procurious. Speaker: Steve Carter. Time: 11 am.

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Eworld Procurement & Supply, 24th September 2019, London

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This involved designing and building solutions to support the Source to Pay and Order to Cash journeys for Buyers and Suppliers. The post Eworld Procurement & Supply, 24<sup>th</sup> September 2019, London appeared first on Ivalua. If you would like to register for the event, please click here .

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How South Korea enables its green transition through green public procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

By 2019, there were 109 MGS products, including office appliances, air conditioners, LED lights, vacuum cleaners, fans, and refrigerators. Starting in 2010, Korea’s Public Procurement Service (PPS) designated categories of products that could only be purchased if they met certain criteria known as “Minimum Green Standards” (MGS).

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The misguided attacks on the 8(a) program must end

Federal News Network

The government imposes unique requirements and rules that are disconnected from the commercial sector and often require different business systems and compliance mechanisms.   We have not solved these challenges.

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