Great Government Through Technology

AUGUST 19, 2024

By centralizing our engagement processes and encouraging industry to view government agencies as “one customer,” we are ensuring that all government agencies, large and small, benefit from the best possible terms and prices, avoiding the inefficiencies of fragmented and duplicative contract terms.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 12, 2024

George held several leadership positions within the agency, including Regional Commissioner of the Greater Southwest Region, and he served as the inaugural Government-wide Category Manager for Industrial Products and Services.

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ivalua

APRIL 13, 2021

In part 1 of this blog I looked at how procurement can actually create new revenue opportunities. A great example is Meritor , who brought a unique approach to supplier collaboration and new product introductions to life, delivering more products at higher profit to support a board level initiative and multiply their stock price.

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Art of Procurement

MARCH 26, 2024

Suppliers understand the time-consuming and challenging nature of responding to requests for proposals, security questionnaires, pricing requests, and other customer. The post AOP Introducing… RFP Ninja appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

As I write this blog, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage populations and economies around the world. Some lessons regarding managing supply chain risk may still help in the near term as companies struggle to reconfigure their supply base to an evolving pandemic. For proactively monitored contracts for risk, 94% vs. 16%.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This year’s Fall Training Conference featured six opportunities, including GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), GSA Pricing Tools, GSA Customer and Stakeholder Engagement (CASE), Medical/Surgical Supply BPAs, VA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), and VA Pathfinder.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

In this blog post, I offer some thoughts on the PPDS, its functional goals, likely effects, and the quickly closing window of opportunity for Member States to support its feasibility through an ambitious implementation of the new procurement eForms at domestic level (on which see earlier thoughts here ). prices) ’ (at 7, fn 17).

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Great Government Through Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In an earlier blog post, Transforming Government IT Procurement: Better Contracting Initiative Priority 2 , I introduced the Better Contracting Initiative (BCI) as a driving force behind our ongoing efforts to modernize government IT procurement. These 24 items comprised the foundation of the GMAS initiative.

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SmallGovCon

MARCH 31, 2025

One item in particular is a keen focus on category management by using GSA for various types of procurement. While it’s been a driving force of procurement reform over the years, this order puts category management into even sharper focus. This is consistent with the idea of category management.

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