Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Or how could buyers minimize the very real risk of greenwashing?

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Scottish Government Procurement

AUGUST 31, 2023

This one-day event, which runs alongside Procurex Scotland, attracts over 500 cross sectoral buyers, heads of department and contract managers responsible for managing the national public procurement expenditure of £14.5+ Plan your day with this handy event planner! Taking place at SEC Glasgow on Tuesday 31 October 2023.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

In this edition, Nick provides an update reflecting on the first few months of the year – highlighting key achievements, events, publications and successes from across the procurement community. Nick also shares some of the events and publications you can look forward to seeing in the upcoming months.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 10, 2024

Recognizing the value that public sector and education buyers can realize through AWS Marketplace, an increasing number of education technology (EdTech) and workforce development companies are listing their products on AWS Marketplace. Recently, we were working on a significant deal with one of our top EdTech customers in EMEA.

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2020

As we have already seen in a former blog , enterprises often fail at maximizing the value of collaborating with smaller companies. I was lucky to attend an inspirational presentation on the subject by Virginie Favray, Urgo Healthcare’s CPO, at a Procurement roundtable event, before the lockdown.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While technical specifications are generally available, there’s limited transparency about how these documents are crafted, particularly the information exchanged between government buyers and private companies. In collaboration with them, we conducted study sessions for municipal officials and hearings for executives.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Visibility across every aspect of the supplier relationship management is essential to making informed decisions or seizing opportunities, and it’s instrumental in speeding up the procurement process, reducing costs and collaborating with suppliers to better meet the needs of the business. Create speed and transparency.

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ivalua

JUNE 27, 2022

Read our FAQ to get acquainted with our newest C2FO Partner collaboration! Ivalua’s global reach of buyers and their suppliers helps us deliver on our mission-providing access to working capital to businesses so they can grow and thrive. The joint-effort benefits both large enterprise buyers and their suppliers of all sizes.

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ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

Some of these challenges include limited: Ability to collaborate, identify opportunities or issues and act. With this information, procurement can rapidly identify and classify issues and then collaboratively work with suppliers on improvement plans. Transparency, or ability to scale data, across an organization.

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Select GCR

APRIL 26, 2024

Our collaborative approach ensures that your business is equipped with the knowledge and resources needed to thrive in the dynamic government marketplace. One key aspect of our program is teaching you how to effectively nurture relationships with government buyers and prime contractors. Don’t take our word for it!

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

To get the best from any relationship you need to set expectations early in the engagement, maintain contact and collaborate to reduce the risk of failure. Attend this presentation to learn: How to motivate and collaborate with suppliers. If you would like to register for the event, please click here .

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ivalua

APRIL 12, 2019

Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced the launch of next generation eprocurement capabilities at its Ivalua NOW event. The new capabilities were showcased in collaboration with Manutan, a leading player in Europe’s B2B e-commerce sector and supplier to many Ivalua customers.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 25, 2024

Recognizing that a significant amount of plastic waste comes from “one and done” packaging, the General Services Administration (GSA), among the largest government buyers purchasing a diverse set of products, sought information in connection with an anticipated rule on single-use packaging in products on the MAS. Sustainability.

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ivalua

MARCH 28, 2019

And finally, you can register for the Ivalua Paris event here if you want to participate in what should be a stimulating couple of days, from April 10 th -12 th. capturing and exploiting innovation from supply markets and individual suppliers becoming a top priority for organisations and therefore procurement functions.

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ivalua

MAY 28, 2014

Many still depend on email and spreadsheets as the primary tools for collaboration and analytics. Internally, buyers and engineers must work with quality and product; then that cross-functional group must collaborate with external suppliers. Information: The link across the Nexus of Forces technologies is information.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 22, 2024

Recognizing that a significant amount of plastic waste comes from “one and done” packaging, the General Services Administration (GSA), among the largest government buyers purchasing a diverse set of products, sought information in connection with an anticipated rule on single-use packaging in products on the MAS. Sustainability.

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ivalua

AUGUST 1, 2019

When fully implemented, eMMA will allow buyers to collaborate with vendors from the bidding and contracting process all the way through the purchasing process. eMMA is state-of-the-art procurement technology powered by the Ivalua Platform, a global leader in procurement technology. With the successful launch of eMMA release 1.0,

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

City employees are now able to collaborate on procurement more efficiently, and better plan and track their aspirations around equity and sustainability. City buyers now also meet regularly with departments to discuss upcoming solicitations. For example, the city fleet was able to streamline and standardize their purchasing process.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Not only does it serve as a gateway to numerous business opportunities, but it also acts as a marketing tool for showcasing your capabilities to potential government buyers. Industry days and special events, listed under ‘Special Notices,’ are particularly valuable as they allow direct interaction with government decision-makers.

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Bonfire

MARCH 29, 2022

If you missed the event, don’t worry! Bonfire allows them to bring every stage of the procurement lifecycle into a central platform where the procurement team and relevant stakeholders can collaborate on RFPs and evaluations with full visibility into the process. The end goal is to drive purchase prices down for the buyer.

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ivalua

APRIL 11, 2019

It’s not many conference organisers who are praying for no-shows the night before the event. Registrations were closed last week, but not before the take-up had been way ahead of expectations and last year’s event. He spoke here about two areas of innovation in the Ivalua product related to collaboration.

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ivalua

APRIL 6, 2021

If you think about it, a contract is the only document that formalizes a relationship between a buyer and a supplier. Key to this phase is the ability to collaborate with internal users as well as the third party (e.g., Usage of approved language helps to speed up approvals.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Collaboratively, we designed a solution, conceived as a minimum viable product (MVP), based on their experience and insights. Some of the most notable issues that emerged from our conversations with buyers included the lack of authority to curb cases of misconduct and the lack of resources for effectively designing and executing purchases.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Other Upcoming Events The Coalition will have a packed calendar leading up to the Fall Training Conference! Check out the list of upcoming events and register below: October 3 : Webinar: Bid Protests and Other Recent Federal Contract-Related Litigation – and Impacts on Contractors – Click here to register.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

If recent shocks were caused by a black swan event or transitory conditions, the lessons and required actions could be considered limited and incremental. To mitigate the impact when they occur, companies must also adopt more sophisticated methodologies to model the effects of specific events. Improving Supplier Collaboration.

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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. We also have global events that are causing disruptions to the supply chain. But yeah, communication certainly happens, collaboration happens. So supply chain risk management and elimination becomes a very important discipline.

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Procureware

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Shared supplier network Very small organizations with infrequent sourcing events may opt for a shared supplier network. Q&A management Many buyers dread managing the Q&A process; phone calls are time consuming, aggregating emails is error-prone, and collaborating with internal experts is tedious.

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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). On April 24 2022 Serik organized a public event in the Academy highlighting approaches promoting interaction between government institutions and civil society in procurement.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Either through data analysis or demand from the business–there is a need to execute a sourcing event. Also included: supplier improvement plans, innovation plans and overall supplier collaboration. The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2020

Dawn will be presenting a thought-leader keynote titled “Leadership in Uncertain Times” at Ivalua NOW , the premier virtual event for procurement leaders, on May 5. Procurement teams were just buyers who delivered what other departments told them to buy. Today, procurement leaders have a seat at the table in e-staff meetings.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Specifically, OMB will achieve this by: Requiring data sharing; Building appropriate centralization; Promoting data-sharing tech; Centralizing data management policy framework; Establishing a new technical data environment; and Facilitating collaboration with data management. million for clean energy projects/initiatives.

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The Procurement School

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sometimes buyers may send the opportunity listing to existing vendors, previous bidders or even select organizations. This collaborative effort ensures that the procurement landscape remains fair, competitive, and cost-effective. Hobbies include white water canoeing, hiking, travelling and current events.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

We believe this app will enhance your conference experience and help you make the most of the event! By sponsoring our mobile event app, your company will gain prime exposure to all conference attendees throughout the entire two-day event. Register today to secure your spot at this timely event! program. (We

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 29, 2024

Attendees will have the chance to connect with government officials and industry peers to share best practices, collaborate, and discuss the latest developments in cybersecurity. Register today to secure your spot at this timely event! To register for the Cyberside Chat, click here. Both in-person and virtual attendance are available.

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Bonfire

MARCH 24, 2022

Fast-forward 10 years and Bonfire’s eProcurement platform has streamlined the process for 451,506 global users (and counting), including buyers, vendors, and evaluators. Collaborating to find a way. Nearly 700 clients have collaborated with us over the last decade to help make Bonfire what it is today.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 19, 2025

Nick also touches on upcoming events over the next few months across the Scottish procurement community. The third sector and representatives of the wider economy at a Public Services Reform Summit, to look at how we collaborate and discuss and set out a path for transformational change on improving public services.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There are specific dashboards that analyze prices on the central e-catalog , medical procurement , buyer evaluations , Energy Services Company (ESCO) procurement, or internal auditing practices. More than 16,000 buyers and suppliers have been trained to use the BI Prozorro module to improve the efficiency of their routine procurement tasks.

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