How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

It was submitted to the ‘a book for a blog’ competition and has won Saema a copy that will soon be on the post. I am reading a leaflet for a contract management portal when I overhear a conversation between a buyer and a supplier. “I says a buyer. AI might be fast, but buyers cannot rely on it to be a subject matter expert.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 24, 2023

This is an issue I would like to explore further after my digital tech procurement book, so I would be more than interested in thoughts and comments!

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This regulatory technique simply seeks to allow public buyers to ensure compliance with the EU AI Act by cascading the relevant obligations and requirements down to tech providers (largely on a back to back basis). Whichever way this goes, this puts the public buyer in a position of rule-taker.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After analysing procurement as a regulatory actor , a new draft chapter for my book project focuses on the procedural and substantive procurement tools that could be used for AI regulation by contract, to assess their suitability for the task. They are thus unlikely to operate as an adequate tool to support regulation by contract.

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Tracker Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

A Boost to Your Reputation It looks impressive to have a public sector client on your business’s books. Government procurement frameworks allow buyers to select suppliers and set terms and conditions for a set period of time. Buyers can then call on the selected suppliers to provide services whenever they are needed.

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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. You name it they buy it.

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Networking Government Contracts Buyers Contract 104

Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

The question is, however: can business owners really give the go-ahead for shorter working weeks, what impact will it have on their operations, and will their buyers and customers choose to jump ship if they do? If you want to find out more, book a free trial today ! appeared first on.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I think the primary reason that GSA is moving forward with requesting a change, and we’re talking here about requesting a change to the Competition and Contracting Act, a law that’s been on the books since the mid 1980s. That’s the type of thing that’s immediately available to government buyers, too Tom.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 10, 2023

I thought the time would never come, but the last piece of my book project puzzle is now more or less in place. Challenges to AIPSA’s ability to discharge such functions would be applicable to any public buyer seeking to achieve the same goals. © Mateo Mulder-Graells (2023).

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Procurement Buyers Influencing Import 52

Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the first case, the buyer is obligated to pay the minimum amount, whereas in the second case, the clause might be adapted pursuant to Articles 112 and 113 of the Brazilian Civil Code.

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Sustainability Contract Import Buyers 52

ivalua

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Supplier Relationship Management – time to rewrite the rule-book? Of course, Buyers’ time is limited. Supplier Relationship Management has taken on new meaning in the unprecedented times in which we find ourselves living. Now is the time to rethink supplier relationships for 2021 and beyond.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2019

Procurement, distributed buyers, the executive team, sales and marketing all have their own reason for looking up suppliers. Procurement should take a page out of their book when it comes to gathering and enriching supplier information. It is a resource in itself, not just a byproduct of our ‘real’ or primary efforts.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

This chapter frames the analysis in the rest of the book and will be fundamental in the review of the other drafts, so comments would be most welcome (a.sanchez-graells@bristol.ac.uk). In this post, I summarise the main arguments (all sources, included for quoted materials, are available in the draft chapter).

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Procurement Public Procurement Ethics Transparency 52

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

Based on what we learned about the maturity and cost of the technologies and about government buyers’ readiness and interest in applying these technologies, we are waiting until the conditions are more advantageous before exploring a full tool. These texts are quite different from procurement notices.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Indeed, they are becoming as much part of the Procurement play-book as “cost savings” and “stock management”. . The realisation that innovation from suppliers is a huge strategic opportunity for most organizations has been slow to dawn, but now we see these concepts rapidly becoming more and more accepted.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

It consisted of 20 meetings with international experts, politicians, buyers and analysts ( recordings available in Russian). Subkhanov discovered more than 300 government agencies had recently purchased a book by the President of Uzbekistan that cost more than $650 a copy.

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Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Participation 52

ivalua

MARCH 29, 2019

That change in the whole working relationship between buyer and suppliers, needed to support Meritor’s goals, has itself been supported by technology (that’s where procurement technology firm Ivalua comes into the picture). It struck me that the technology achieves two goals.

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ivalua

AUGUST 22, 2019

This involved designing and building solutions to support the Source to Pay and Order to Cash journeys for Buyers and Suppliers. Outside of working life, he is a published 17th Century historian and is currently writing a military history book covering the events of 1685.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

This involved designing and building solutions to support the Source to Pay and Order to Cash journeys for Buyers and Suppliers. Outside of working life, he is a published 17 th Century historian and is currently writing a military history book covering the events of 1685.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Click here to Book your group rate at the Fairview Park Marriott. Because SBA states that many of its proposed rule changes are “clarifications” of its existing rules, potential M&A buyers should consider the effect of SBA’s proposed rule in their valuation of small business targets even before the rule is finalized.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Book your group rate at the Fairview Park Marriott for the Fall Conference here. While the buyer had not secured financing when the term sheet was signed, the term sheet was not conditioned on obtaining financing nor does it appear that financing was in doubt. To register for the Fall Training Conference, click here.

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GovCon Chamber of Commerce

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

So, how can you start cold call government buyers as a small business? Remember that federal buyers and small businesses both have something the other person wants or needs. Cold calling federal buyers, small business specialists and prospective teaming partners is an essential part of the government contracting process.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The media organization ProTenge, which exposed tenders to buy books and publish articles about the ex-President that were subsequently canceled. But many buyers are still reluctant to use such complicated procedures because they’re unsure of how control agencies view the use of award criteria other than lowest price.

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