American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Your procurement strategy should outline short-term and long-term goals, identify potential risks, and focus on building strong supplier relationships. These contracts are competitively bid and offer access to a broad range of goods and services at negotiated rates, making them ideal for organizations of all sizes.

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Purchasing Procurement Supplier Supply Chain 58

Government Contracts

JULY 29, 2024

Postal Service on Friday backed Oshkosh Defense's request to seal their confidential supplier contract terms in litigation challenging the agency's decision to replace its aging delivery fleet with only 62% electric vehicles, arguing rivals could use the information to undercut the USPS when negotiating their own supplier contracts.

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Bidding Supplier Negotiation Contract 95

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JANUARY 14, 2025

In order to evaluate whether suppliers offers are giving a business the optimum value, benchmarking is required. Explore our CIPS courses today and gain insights into effective supplier management strategies. Benefits Of Benchmarking Benefits of Benchmarking Ready to deepen your procurement expertise?

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Supplier Supply Chain Price Procurement 59

ivalua

DECEMBER 5, 2019

As a result, the role of the supplier has grown in importance – for example, much of the innovation in the aerospace market comes from suppliers rather than traditional aerospace firms. Suppliers offer an excellent source of knowledge to help businesses rapidly innovate. Cost-focused approaches block innovation.

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Supplier Innovation Procurement Consumer Demands 68

Federal News Network

MAY 30, 2024

Interview Transcript: Tom Temin Dan, let’s just begin with why you would want to treat nontraditional suppliers as commercial in the first place. The post Why DoD treats non-traditional innovation suppliers as just plain commercial first appeared on Federal News Network. That’s expensive and complicated.

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Supplier Innovation Price Accountability 92

American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The lead agency conducts the solicitation and RFP process, sets the terms, and awards the contract to a supplier. This reduces the need for bid preparation and evaluation. OMNIA Partners checks suppliers to ensure high quality, providing organizations with many options in various categories. Your Peers are Using Cooperatives!

Purchasing 58

Purchasing Procurement IT Quality 58

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Prebases module now simplifies the administrative tasks of the 90 spending units in Mexico City by strengthening market studies and obtaining direct information from suppliers, experts, and citizens. Download our infographic to get all the results at a glance.

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Procurement IT Budget Electronics 62

Spend Network

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The UK government's new tightened payment terms for suppliers in public procurement contracts signals a vital move that will have far-reaching impacts across the business landscape when bidding for contracts.

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Public Procurement Supplier Procurement Procurement Contracts 59

ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. , June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has selected and deployed Ivalua to digitize supplier registration and solicitation processes. and the world. .”

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Supplier Bidding Budget Procurement 71

Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 4, 2025

Traditional procurement approaches prioritised lowest price, which led to unintended consequences like accepting bids of lower quality, a lesser performance record or that did not adequately allow buyers to consider equity, sustainability or socio-economic objectives like creating local jobs.

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Procurement Collaboration E-procurement Capacity 52

Government Contracts

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Boeing supplier, Spirit AeroSystems Inc., has asked a federal judge to approve over $583,000 in legal fees after it won a bid to shut down attempts by Texas state officials to examine its business records.

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Supplier Bidding IT 52

Tendersinfo

JUNE 4, 2021

Bid managers are the unsung heroes of the sales team and the organization. Here we have listed out few insights about e tendering business that can help you make the right bid. Do not say yes to every Bid It is not important to place your bid on every project.

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Bidding Tender Buyers E-procurement 52

Tenders Direct

JULY 6, 2021

We recommend suppliers familiarise themselves with these priorities to support future bids. The post How does the National Procurement Policy Statement (NPPS) affect suppliers? A greater focus is being put on how public spending can better support economic growth, Covid-19 recovery and net zero carbon emissions.

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Supplier Procurement Tender Bidding 52

Government Contracts

JULY 5, 2024

Supreme Court to review the overturning of a former Contech executive's bid-rigging conviction, saying the appeals court was wrong to focus on a supplier relationship between companies that also compete for contracts. Department of Justice has asked the U.S.

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Bid Rigging Bidding Supplier Contract 52

Redstone Government Consulting

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Government wants to pay a fair and reasonable price for products and services that they purchase and expects you to pay your suppliers a fair and reasonable price. FAR 52.244-5 Competition in Subcontracting includes the requirement to select subcontractors and suppliers on a competitive basis to the maximum extent possible.

Purchasing 88

Purchasing Supplier Price Thresholds 88

ivalua

APRIL 8, 2021

Supplier diversity is not a new concept. The real challenge is that supplier diversity has generally been viewed as competing with other objectives, such as cost reduction or lowering risk. With diverse suppliers generally being local, that meant supplier diversity competed against the core supplier strategy.

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Supplier Freight Transportation Transportation 52

Federal News Network

APRIL 9, 2024

Topics include key provisions in the 2024 NDAA impacting procurement and the industrial base, the DFARS commercial item rule and regulatory creep, the impact of a recent federal circuit decision on EULAs and third party suppliers’ ability to seek redress under a government contract.

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Government Government Bidding Supplier 86

DemandStar

MARCH 31, 2022

If you’re part of any government procurement team, you’ve likely been asked, “What are you doing to increase supplier diversity?” It’s also likely you’ve heard of and possibly conducted disparity studies to improve your procurement process and identify the needs of different types of suppliers. Why Are They Needed?

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Supplier Procurement Team Procurement Bidding 52

Tendersinfo

DECEMBER 24, 2020

2020 comes to an end, and we take a look back at the bizarre range of events that the bidding community stood testimony to this year. With reports of the novel coronavirus appearing in several regions we could never imagine how it is going to impact our lives and the bidding community at large.

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Bidding Management Public Procurement Competitive Bidding 52

The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 25, 2019

Price analysis can be considered a stage of bid evaluation depending on the provisions of a legal and regulatory framework. It is an assessment of the evaluated price of a responsive bid to ascertain that it is not unreasonably high nor unreasonably low, but fair enough to the procuring entity and the supplier.

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Evaluation Price Bidding Procurement 52

Tendersinfo

APRIL 27, 2021

Although, there isn’t any universal template or procedure that applies to every government bid. Automation of the bid management process gives the time to cut down mundane activities and focus on areas that can increase your chances of winning. The weightage and scoring of each tender will be different in the ease case.

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Bidding Tender Government Government 52

GovSpend

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. Verifying Vendors for Credibility and Reliability: The first topic covered was the crucial process of vendor verification.

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Procurement Purchasing Price Bidding 105

ivalua

JULY 6, 2020

Most public organizations are used to accepting bids from suppliers in paper form, delivered to their offices. With Ivalua for Public Sector , however, our flexibility would enable you to configure a streamlined supplier account request process and bid solicitation platform, so that suppliers could securely upload sealed bid packages.

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Innovation Supplier Bidding Budget 98

VWV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) introduces a range of reforms aimed at simplifying and enhancing transparency in the procurement process, which should be good news for suppliers. Part 2 will cover the debarment list; contract award process and what options are available to suppliers if things go wrong.

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Supplier Procurement Tender Transparency 52

ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

One way of doing this is by leveraging Source-to-Pay (S2P) solutions, which can provide procurement with the tools needed to manage their supplier relationships and identify opportunities for cost savings. Let’s explore further.

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Price Supply Chain Supplier Procurement Team 105

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Creating a dynamic marketplace that promotes transparency of pricing, services and supply contracts, allows suppliers to continually update their offerings and prices and enables public sector buyers easier access to the latest technology and services. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 138

ivalua

MARCH 13, 2019

This involves the perspectives of immediate stakeholders, agency leads and the general public, but it also includes the perspectives of suppliers participating in solicitations or seeking opportunities to work with the government. One of the worst possible side effects of a solicitation is when a supplier protests the award decision.

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Supplier Transparency Procurement Purchasing 40

Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

s bid to permanently enjoin a Texas statute requiring businesses to immediately comply with the state's demand to examine business records, saying the statute is unconstitutional. A magistrate judge on Friday recommended a Texas federal judge grant Spirit AeroSystems Inc.'s

Supplier 52

Supplier Bidding Demand 52

Tenders Direct

JULY 6, 2021

We recommend suppliers familiarise themselves with these priorities to support future bids. The post How does the National Procurement Policy Statement (NPPS) affect suppliers? A greater focus is being put on how public spending can better support economic growth, Covid-19 recovery and net zero carbon emissions.

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Supplier Procurement Tender Bidding 40

Procureware

JANUARY 22, 2018

When considering all steps from start to finish, the administrative time for a bid is typically reduced by an impressive 50 to 70 percent! One of the most common questions I hear from procurement staff during implementation is, “how should the supplier bid responses be structured?” My answer is always “yes.”

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Bidding Buyers Evaluation Price 40

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

We needed specialist suppliers to help us develop new services and train people to deliver them. This made it simpler for specialists to bid for government work and increased government access to technology innovators. Previously, these typically small-to-medium-sized startup suppliers faced barriers such as annual turnover totals.

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Innovation Procurement Government Government 78

Government Contracts

AUGUST 7, 2024

A parts supplier accusing RTX Corp. subsidiary Pratt & Whitney of using illegal agreements to monopolize the aftermarket supply of their turboprop engine components asked a Pennsylvania federal court to keep discovery moving while considering the possible dismissal of the $450 million lawsuit.

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Bidding Supplier Engineering 52

Government Contracts

APRIL 2, 2025

Lawyers representing an education resources supplier that sued its business partner over allegations of price-fixing and bid-rigging within the New York City school system have been sanctioned for repeatedly attempting to add claims to unauthorized amended complaints in what a federal judge said was bad faith.

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Bid Rigging Education Supplier Bidding 52

Government Contracts

JANUARY 17, 2024

Department of Justice has asked the Fourth Circuit to reconsider a panel's ruling that overturned a former Contech executive's bid-rigging conviction, saying the panel was wrong to focus on a supplier relationship between Contech and a competing contractor.

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Bid Rigging Bidding Supplier 40

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Whether you’re a supplier trying to land your first contract, a business just getting into understanding government procurement, or a pro looking to stay on top of compliance, this glossary is your go-to guide. The contracting authority or government agency sets the rules, picks the best supplier, and ensures everything runs smoothly.

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Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Tender 52

SmallGovCon

MARCH 4, 2024

A NAICS code appeal can be a powerful tool for altering the competitive landscape of a bid by changing what size of business is allowed to submit a bid and thereby either increasing or decreasing the potential competitor pool. The NAICS code size standard doesn’t allow you to bid.

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Bidding Procurement Import Purchasing 109

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Government expenditure through public procurement is essential since it ensures that there are contracts available to be bid in a fair, open, and competitive manner. Having a solid understanding of public procurement principles enables procurement professionals and suppliers to confidently navigate public sector procurement.

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Public Procurement Transparency Procurement Tender 52