Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Federal Monthly Insights - Contract Management Modernization - 9/24/2024 [link] Download audio The State Department is embarking on a transformation in how it performs acquisition. It’s moving to a category management approach, organizing procurement around the primary categories of spend.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

City of Bellingham Position: Purchasing Manager Location: Bellingham, Washington Closing Date: Friday, August 11, 2017 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time Interview Schedule: The most qualified candidates will be asked to participate in a panel interview on August 31, 2017. Experience with budgeting preferred.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2024

GSA says its IT Vendor Management Office is close to finalizing a governmentwide deal with Microsoft. The Government Accountability Office found last January that out of the 24 agencies they reviewed for software licenses management, Microsoft was the most common, with agencies reporting it 36 times for a total of about $2.4

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. This blog post highlights project management tools, references, and AWS Management Console tips that give public sector customers better project visibility, automate task management, and help accelerate project outcomes.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In his article “ The Future of Public Infrastructure is Digital “, Bill Gates envisions a world where infrastructure is smarter, more efficient, and digitally integrated. Governments worldwide control vast budgets through procurement, giving them the power to: Drive innovation by demanding advanced solutions from vendors.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Technologies once relied on to manage this process and reduce knowledge loss are no longer able to do so in an efficient, transparent way—skyrocketing costs, zapping institutional knowledge and worse. Adopting AI is no longer an option but a necessity for developing efficient, transparent and responsive government operations.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM). What is Smart Public Procurement?

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? What are the pros and cons, and what supply chain strategy will pave the way to higher margins, improved supply chain risk management in healthcare and improved patient care?

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s no secret that procurement professionals nationwide are struggling with budgets, bandwidth and staffing shortages. They’ve saved tens of thousands of dollars in their budget and shaved months off their process by partnering with a cooperative.

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The Procurement School

AUGUST 11, 2023

Author: Larry Berglund As part of the assessment on the ability of a supply chain department to deliver value effectively , is its ability to do so efficiently. To have an objective assessment on efficiency, there should be a set of KPIs or measurement tools to compare. Efficiency metrics examples 1.The per transaction.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When they buy technology, cities and counties will often face multiple issues, says Dean Cunningham , segment development manager, Public Safety at Axis Communications , a company that produces network cameras, access control systems, network audio devices and other IP networking solutions for physical security and video surveillance applications.

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FedScoop

MAY 1, 2024

But the agency is working on a strategy to also onboard commercial services and looking to ensure that information it provides is fresh so people will want to regularly return, Steve Krauss, a senior advisor for OPM’s HR Quality Services Management Office, or QSMO, told FedScoop.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It results from past budget deficits and requires ongoing management through interest and principal repayments.

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FedScoop

APRIL 10, 2024

calls on the director of the Office of Management and Budget to embrace multi-cloud technology across federal agencies, identifying barriers to adoption and best practices for implementation. Committee Chair Gary Peters, D-Mich., had offered a modified substitute amendment as the underlying bill. The legislation , co-sponsored by Sens.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 31, 2023

An army of data analysts wouldn’t be able to keep up with the volume of logs being generated (and no agency has sufficient budget to hire them). AI for IT operations is well suited to managing complex IT systems and supporting constantly changing and growing data and security demands. Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2021, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) awarded a contract to Mi-Case , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, to replace its legacy systems managing case data across the state’s corrections facilities. Mi-Case provides live, fully integrated case management software that replaced IDOC’s legacy systems.

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FedScoop

JULY 12, 2024

As the federal government awaits final guidance from the Office of Management and Budget meant to modernize and reform the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, one of Capitol Hill’s top federal IT modernization advocates believes that the program is “undeniably” in a state of limbo until that guidance is issued.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Throughout the evolution of project and public procurement management, terms and expressions in the field have increasingly been used interchangeably. Additionally, the procurement management team may select the procurement method based on the nature or complexity of the requirement. What is Solicitation in Procurement?

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 26, 2024

On April 4, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on the Budget, wrote a letter to Gary Gensler , the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), expressing concerns about delays and lack of transparency in the agency’s whistleblower compensation.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 29, 2024

By: Lawson Products In today’s fast-paced world, efficient procurement is crucial for any entity. As procurement professionals, you are constantly balancing tight budgets, increasing demands, and the need to streamline operations. What is Lawson Vendor Managed Inventory?

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Tracker Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2024

Introduction to Project Management Consultancy Tenders In today’s ever-changing business landscape project management consultancy tenders have become more and more important. Participating in this competitive market requires strategic insight, as well as a deep comprehension of the tendering procedures.

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FedScoop

MARCH 15, 2024

A host of tech-related problems, including with FOIA request management systems and other processing tools, came up regularly during the January 2023 to March 2024 performance audit by the GAO, which conducted four virtual focus groups with senior officials representing 23 Chief Financial Officers Act agencies. “As

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FedScoop

AUGUST 22, 2024

Five of the country’s leading software and tech advocacy organizations are urging Senate and House leadership to pass bipartisan, bicameral legislation aimed at improving federal agency oversight and management of software purchases before this congressional term comes to a close. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimates federal grants to states and local governments in FY2019 totaled nearly three quarters of a trillion dollars. trillion, making grants roughly 17% of the total federal budget. . Federal grants often make up a large portion of any state, county or municipal budget. Reason No.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 11, 2025

Eric Forseter’s team is helping a major federal agency use AI to automate operations and deliver vital services more efficiently to millions of Americans. Public sector incident managers face tens of thousands of daily alerts across siloed, outdated systems, making it hard to identify and fix problems quickly.

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FedScoop

APRIL 5, 2024

So far, there’s been positive feedback from the pilots that generative AI has “significantly enhanced data analysis, efficiency, and productivity,” Sim said. A recent Office of Management and Budget memo further directs agencies to “assess potential beneficial uses” of generative AI uses and establish safeguards.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 19, 2023

From automating mundane tasks and increasing productivity to quickly and efficiently processing large amounts of data that was once locked in data silos, the possibilities are becoming realities. In the cloud, system management and upgrades are easier; performance data more readily available. Take for instance the U.S.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 17, 2024

In September 2021, the Office of Management and Budget unveiled a draft federal strategy , emphasizing the need for a zero-trust architecture to meet evolving cybersecurity demands. This layer optimizes resource efficiency and fosters consistency in multi-cloud environments, accelerating cloud adoption.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At the end of 2022, Will Thompson, lead computational research consultant at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management , had a decision to make. The new data collection needed to be budget-friendly—both to install and maintain. User experience – Thompson didn’t want the user experience to change dramatically.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Our budgeting process is stupid. Who in their right mind would run a commercial enterprise or operation using a budget that was conceived three years ago?” “If we ran our government like we ran Silicon Valley, we’d be much more efficient,” Holcombe said. Our procurement is stupid. Holcombe said.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 30, 2024

1 cost center, and its fluctuating nature can make managing it tricky. According to a recent benchmarking report , fuel costs made up 50 percent of fleets’ budgets on average. While manually tracking data can provide decent results, automated tracking methods are more efficient and reduce the risk of human error, ensuring cleaner data.

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ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 30, 2024

Under a potential five-year, $84 million blanket purchase agreement, the financial management, budget and acquisition software Momentum, tailored to federal agencies, will provide the USPTO with secure financial management services to boost operational efficiency and support revenue collection, CGI said Wednesday.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Office of Management and Budget guidance released in 2020 called on federal agencies to migrate to IPv6 across all information systems and services. Per the 2020 OMB memo, “full transition to IPv6 is the only viable option to ensure future growth and innovation in Internet technology and services.”

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Bonfire

MARCH 17, 2023

Our panelists included: Hend Salem , Manager of Strategic Sourcing – Non Clinical at The Ottawa Hospital Carol Izzio , Director of Procurement at Sheridan College Christine McParland , Director of Residence and Ancillary Services at St. The post Your procurement compliance and risk management checklist appeared first on Bonfire.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2021

– Spend control through real-time visibility into budget consumption, negotiated prices, preferred suppliers, engagement channels. Also, an eprocurement solution provides you with clean spend data, which is the basis for a sound spend analysis and eventually relevant category management. Boosted stakeholder satisfaction.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

At Ivalua, we’ve seen how a Procure-to-Pay business process ensures sustained benefits through good buying practices, improves visibility and swifter issue resolution, and enables proactive management of suppliers. Buying at negotiated prices and within budget. Pain-Point: Manage supplier risk and visibility. Case in Point.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

of respondents characterized their payment collection systems as very efficient, with a concerning 51% describing their systems as either inefficient or “neutral.” of agencies, which is the challenge of managing late payments. depend on these payments for less than 25% of their revenue. Despite this reliance, only 19.6%

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