The Procurement School

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sometimes buyers may send the opportunity listing to existing vendors, previous bidders or even select organizations. Once a procurement is awarded it moves to contract management whose primary functions are implementation, compliance and issue management. Fleet and Logistics Category Manager.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

Following the same rhetoric of transformation, the PPDS Communication now stresses that ‘ Integrated data combined with the use of state-of the-art and emerging analytics technologies will not only transform public procurement, but also give new and valuable insights to public buyers, policy-makers, businesses and interested citizens alike ‘ (at 2).

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 2, 2024

For what buyers and sellers can expect in the year ahead, we hear from Sonny Hashmi. Tom Temin Yeah, GSA is certainly not the GSA of our fathers and grandfathers in terms of the contracting opportunities that offers and maybe you’re biased, but review what you think are some of the strengths that it brings towards headed into 2024.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Identifying Value , is where procurement teams leverage spend data and spend analysis to understand trends in spend and identify opportunities and develop category management strategies. . Creating Value occurs when sourcing and procurement uses relevant sourcing processes and tools to engage and select the best fit supplier.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Questions remain about vertical and horizontal contract duplication arising from the ASCEND BPA acquisition strategy. OMB Launches Acquisition Data Strategy The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a circular on May 30 entitled “Strategic Management of Acquisition Data and Information.”

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A group of 15 trade organizations recently surveyed small, women and minority-owned businesses, in part to measure their participation and readiness to compete for federal contracts. Our top policy priorities center around creating more opportunities for women owned businesses to participate in federal contracting.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 1, 2024

“The new certification process of the Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) is truly transformative because it establishes a common set of technical and professional competencies for both the Defense Department and the civilian agencies. In fact, FAS says only about 7% of all contracting officers are under 30 years old.

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NIH NITAAC

JULY 23, 2021

NITAAC’s three easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, Best in Class (BIC) Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) – CIO-SP3, CIO-SP3 Small Business, and CIO-CS – provide any federal agency, government-wide, with an easy and accessible method for acquiring more effective citizen services or mission delivery.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 1, 2025

To understand what this means for the procurement system, Federal News Network’s Terry Gerton spoke with Emily Murphy, former GSA administrator and current senior fellow at the George Mason University Baroni Center for Government Contracting on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin. So and then contract writing systems.

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