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.

Purchasing 58

Purchasing Procurement Supplier Supply Chain 58

ivalua

OCTOBER 28, 2022

COVID-19 had closed their vendor liaison office and vendors were no longer able to drop off physical bids in person, nor could they conduct bid opening per their established process. In two weeks, the LADWP was able to stand-up a solicitations solution with a bid drop-box and a vendor self-service portal.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Procurement Team Bidding 52

Bonfire

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Vendor-paid eProcurement typically offsets the costs of an online procurement platform for the buying organization. Opportunities in a bidding portal are hidden behind a paywall and vendors are required to pay a fee to submit their bid. In some cases, they even have to pay to view the opportunity and bid documents.

Eprocurement 52

Eprocurement Bidder Bidding Influencing 52

Procureware

JUNE 28, 2018

Two-Way Messaging is a new feature that lets buyers interact with vendors via email and have all the communications logged in ProcureWare. The communications are automatically associated to the individual vendor, their company, and the relevant bid or contract.

Buyers 40

Buyers Collusion Bidding Transparency 40