Federal News Network

MARCH 27, 2024

“This is about meeting our customers where they are with a modernized user experience and streamlined process for government purchase cardholders,” said Tom Howder, the acting Federal Acquisition Service commissioner, in a release. Pacific Ink offers office supplies and Social Glass provides access to small purchases across 50,000 products.

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E-procurement Buyers Procurement Purchasing 94

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

They are encouraging dialogue about who bought what from whom to improve visibility and accountability over the spending and the improved outcomes seen in the examples provided. From there, the buyer can define the specific requirements for the solution and move to a request for a quotation to build the solution.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The best part of these conversations is their delight when they see the consolidated purchasing analytics. We’re responsible for the marketplace’s functionality for both the seller and the buyer. The buyer is a customer of the reseller or software vendor for the SaaS product, as well as of AWS for use of our marketplace.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

City and county governments are often key buyers of landscape equipment and supplies, says Keith McGinty , director of bids and government accounts at SiteOne Landscape Supply , a firm that sells soil maintenance products, irrigation, lighting, nursery products, tools, equipment, safety items and hardscapes in addition to landscape supplies.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to Forrester, “AWS continues to raise the bar for transacting and contracting, with real dollar benefits…[and] continues to work with procurement executives and other technology buyers to ensure its marketplace is solving their buying challenges.” Being able to click a button to purchase was also fantastic.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

It was impossible to analyze the decisions of Ukraine’s procurement review body, the Antimonopoly Committee, in a comprehensive way to understand when the outcome favored the buyer and when it favored the vendor. percentage points more than the average success rate for appeals in Prozorro (72%), excluding Clarity App buyers.

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Procurement Tender Buyers Public Procurement 67

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This does not appear to be a case of the most senior people likely to have been aware of the behavior being held accountable. You need to look at every single purchase and make sure you’re getting the best deal possible. Greg Williams Yeah.

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The Procurement School

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For example, a Buyer was tasked with ordering scientific equipment and lab supplies for a university in Africa. The Buyer received a frantic call from their onsite contact that they needed an additional $2000 CDN for the truck driver to unload the crate from the plane. On a global perspective, ethics may be different.

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Ethics Import Procurement Public Procurement 98

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Or how could buyers minimize the very real risk of greenwashing?

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Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

ivalua

MARCH 19, 2019

Ivalua’s intuitive user interface provides a consumer-like purchasing experience and is used by over a million people across the globe. As a result, Ivalua customers consistently achieve the highest levels of digitization, regularly exceeding 99% paperless procurement and accounts payable processes. “We Broad user adoption.

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Procurement Supplier Buyers Purchasing 58

Select GCR

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Gov has thousands of Gov buyers or procurement officers that work for different departments or branches of the gov, they post the award, and then chose the right business for the contract. Now on the other hand, businesses must register their business with the Gov so they can be seen by these buyers.

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Networking Government Contracts Buyers Contract 104

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Public sector procurement relies heavily on framework agreements as a streamlined purchasing tool for goods and services. Additionally, they provide flexibility through call off contracts where purchases can be placed on an ‘as needed’ basis.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Seasoned practitioners in public procurement can be jaded from situations that have gone wrong, and it is common for inexperienced public buyers to experience risk aversion and fear of the unknown. Relationships will benefit when buyers promptly respond to SMEs’ queries and consider them as a valuable and positive part of the job.

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ivalua

JULY 13, 2022

Buyers are expected to scrutinize every aspect of the purchasing process to identify ways to reduce their carbon footprint, source sustainable materials, and promote diversity. As the sourcing function evolves, digital procurement technologies have become crucial tools for buyers to capture and report their sustainability achievements.

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Sustainability Buyers Supplier E-procurement 52

Select GCR

MAY 7, 2024

Multiple-award contracts mandate a fair opportunity to all awardees for orders over the micro-purchase threshold, though there are exceptions like urgency or specialized service needs. Market research can provide crucial contracts awarded insights into government agencies’ purchasing patterns, helping you target future contract opportunities.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Where once both hardware and software could be budgeted as one-time purchases, cloud-based solutions require ongoing contracts that need a maintenance-style budget. The rise of cloud and of software-as-a-service (SaaS) based tools has changed the way expenses are accounted for. Use Cloud Solutions to Align Software Use and Cost.

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Procurement Budget Purchasing Buyers 52

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Specifically, the PAP states that “[t]he term “fair and reasonable” is generally considered to mean a price that is fair to both parties in a transaction , not higher than what the competitive market would bear or a price that a prudent and competent buyer would pay for a product or service under competitive market conditions.”

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Price Evaluation Negotiation Purchasing 63

ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

At the heart of every procurement process is the Accounts Payable team and our AP Automation software module has been built to support these skilled workers. The AP journey starts even before the Supplier Invoice is received, and before the Supplier’s billing team generates the invoice, it begins with the Buyer’s Order.

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Supplier Buyers Budget E-procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

However, to assess the (abstract) potential of procurement as a regulatory tool, it is worth distinguishing between practical and legal challenges, and to focus on legal challenges that would be present at all levels of public buyer capability. They are thus unlikely to operate as an adequate tool to support regulation by contract.

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Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52

Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

3] TINA defines cost or pricing data to mean all facts that, as of the relevant date, a prudent buyer or seller would reasonably expect to affect price negotiations significantly. [4] 42] Review the purchase order history and the complete buyer’s file ( e.g. , quotes, negotiation summary, correspondence, purchase orders (PO), etc.)

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Negotiation Price Government Contracts IT 98

ivalua

MARCH 19, 2019

Ivalua’s intuitive user interface provides a consumer-like purchasing experience and is used by over a million people across the globe. As a result, Ivalua customers consistently achieve the highest levels of digitization, regularly exceeding 99% paperless procurement and accounts payable processes. “We Broad user adoption.

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Procurement Supplier Purchasing Buyers 40

ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

Invoice to Pay is a request for payment by a supplier, and technology helps to make this simple, fast and more efficient for the Supplier and the Accounts Payable team. The result of bringing these three steps together with data from the whole Procurement journey is a seamless and almost touchless workflow that transforms accounts payable.

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Supplier E-procurement Accountability Networking 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Specifically, the PAP states that “[t]he term “fair and reasonable” is generally considered to mean a price that is fair to both parties in a transaction , not higher than what the competitive market would bear or a price that a prudent and competent buyer would pay for a product or service under competitive market conditions.” See Section 2.

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Price Evaluation Negotiation Purchasing 49

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Downstream activities include e-procurement , purchase orders, invoice automation and accounts payable and payment processes. The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay. Purchasing is also where value is captured (i.e.,

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Supplier E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Scope 3 emissions are the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for an organization–extracted from a wide range of activities–including purchased goods and services, waste disposal, capital goods, and business travel. This will ensure sourcing and purchasing decisions take emissions into account.

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Procurement Supplier Category Management Purchasing 52

ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Scope 3 emissions are the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for an organization–extracted from a wide range of activities–including purchased goods and services, waste disposal, capital goods, and business travel. This will ensure sourcing and purchasing decisions take emissions into account.

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Procurement Supplier Category Management Purchasing 52

Procureware

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Invite unregistered bidders Particularly for infrequent types of procurement, like accounting software, buyers need to research possible vendors and invite them to respond to an RFP. With ProcureWare, buyers can send the invitation and create the account in one step. They simply add the email to the invitation list.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Using Invoice-to-Pay to create a top performing Accounts Payable Team. The performance of your Accounts Payable department can have a significant impact on the organization. This is because controlling the flow of invoices into the Accounts Payable team has become increasingly complex to manage.

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Supplier Accountability Supply Chain End to End 40

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. However, data from only 20% of all call for tenders as submitted by public buyers is available and searchable for analysis in one place [ie TED].

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Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52

Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

It was hard to imagine a world where accountants and project managers would work in their pyjamas from the comfort of their home offices. However, it is more complicated than ever to determine whether an opportunity is real or if a buyer is using the process to pressure suppliers. It’s now the reality we live in, though.

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Tender Buyers Project Management Public Procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Since launching their platform in 2020, Diegues and Blanco have built a set of digital tools and data analytics services that have bridged the gap between more than 250 private sector users and public procurement buyers in six countries across Latin America. According to the World Bank, public contracts account for 15% of global GDP.

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Data Public Procurement Tender Price 57

The Procurement School

AUGUST 11, 2023

We know that issuing a formal purchase order to buy a low-cost item and make a payment through accounts payable is not a good use of resources. For example, moving from a manual process of issuing purchase orders and bid documents to an e-procurement system such as Ariba® or Euna Solutions. Efficiency metrics examples 1.The

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Efficiency Balance Procurement E-procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. One key recommendation was to require government buyers to pay advances to MSME suppliers at 20% of the full contract value.

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Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 9, 2023

Public procurement accounts for around 13-20% of global GDP , so it has the potential to be an important tool for governments to promote gender equality. To improve efficiency, the city also focused on generating data to better target women-owned businesses, as well as training and outreach programs for public buyers and women entrepreneurs.

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Public Procurement Participation Procurement Import 52

Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

​I was responsible for my individual budget that included a Profit and Loss (P&L) account. I was considered one of the best singles buyers in the country, based on my P&L performance alone. I had to consider supply and demand fluctuations, as people's attitudes and music preferences change quickly.

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Supply Chain IT Warehouse Demand 52

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis.

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Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Procurement Team 52

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

Introductory course The School of Applied Research in Public Procurement sought to develop participants’ skills in monitoring, research, policy analysis, and promoting public procurement reforms and open contracting in Central Asia, with a vision to improve transparency, accountability and efficiency in the use of public funds.

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