Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

These firms must now document each instance of discrimination that led to the loss of equal opportunity. Moreover, there are more than 5 million Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States that are able to provide valuable services to add enhanced quality and efficiency to the U.S. This process is insensitive and frustrating.

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Buyers Procurement Contract Government Contracts 121

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We only have three regional offices and hundreds of buyers. This is now changing” A vision for bottom-up participation To develop the project and engage all stakeholders, PPDA brought together government buyers (known as Procuring and Disposing Entities or PDEs) and civil society organizations together in regional meetings.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Seasoned practitioners in public procurement can be jaded from situations that have gone wrong, and it is common for inexperienced public buyers to experience risk aversion and fear of the unknown. Relationships will benefit when buyers promptly respond to SMEs’ queries and consider them as a valuable and positive part of the job.

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Participation Procurement Strategies Procurement Buyers 52

American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

City and county governments are often key buyers of landscape equipment and supplies, says Keith McGinty , director of bids and government accounts at SiteOne Landscape Supply , a firm that sells soil maintenance products, irrigation, lighting, nursery products, tools, equipment, safety items and hardscapes in addition to landscape supplies.

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How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

This guest post by Saema Jaffer* explores the policy approaches that can be followed in the UK, and elsewhere, in relation to the use of AI in the writing and evaluation of tender documents. 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.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To public sector buyers, frameworks are not just tools; they are time-saving, compliance-enhancing, and value-extracting tools from previously assessed suppliers. Failing to adhere to these requirements may result in the application being rejected, regardless of its quality.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The one finding that should definitely not go unnoticed is that, according to DRCF, ‘ Buyers can lack the technical expertise to effectively scrutinise the [algorithmic systems] they are procuring, whilst vendors may limit the information they share with buyers ’ (at 9). This is extremely worrying.

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Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

The Strategic Sourcing modules of Ivalua allow Punch Powertrain buyers to define Purchasing needs collaboratively, consolidate the tendering documents and ease costing by suppliers (cost breakdown files, dialogue with the projects on technical feasibility).

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Tendersinfo

JUNE 4, 2021

Identify the Pain Areas of the Buyer It is of utmost importance to comprehend the requirements and recognize the torment spaces of the buyer. A tender response should be able to make you stand out from the competition and talk about how your services can add value to the buyer.

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Bidding Tender Buyers E-procurement 52

The Procurement School

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Allows government buyer to consider vendor feedback and make changes before issuing the solicitation. Solicitation Processes Once a government buyer has issued a solicitation, they must balance meeting the government’s needs with maintaining the interest of quality vendors. Avoid jargon and spell out acronyms.

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GovCon Chamber of Commerce

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Sales and the Art of Persuasion Winning proposals are essentially SALES documents , so they must be compelling and persuasive to the buyers. What does the federal buyer want to achieve with their RFP? We "bring solutions that improve the quality of healthcare to all veterans across America” INTERESTING!

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2024

It is a favourite for businesses who want high-quality tender opportunities because of its comprehensive coverage and user-friendly interface. A good profile makes it easier for your clients to trust you, which will likely attract more buyers. Tailor each bid according to specific requirements as outlined in tender documents.

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ivalua

AUGUST 11, 2021

This approach ensures that business between a buyer and its suppliers is conducted in a manner that does not negatively impact society or the environment. . So today, many leading Procurement organizations look beyond cost factors to make decisions based on quality, reliability, innovation and social and environmental practices.

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Supply Chain Supplier Ethics Sustainability 52

NIH NITAAC

JUNE 1, 2021

The Act was created with one mission in mind: To speed up IT purchasing so that by the time technology got to the buyer, it wasn’t obsolete. As a buyer, you strengthen your bargaining position when you give all the awardees on the contract a fair chance to compete. There are two good reasons for an agency to exercise fair opportunity.

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E-procurement Purchasing Buyers Electronics 52

How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

However, to assess the (abstract) potential of procurement as a regulatory tool, it is worth distinguishing between practical and legal challenges, and to focus on legal challenges that would be present at all levels of public buyer capability. They are thus unlikely to operate as an adequate tool to support regulation by contract.

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Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52

ivalua

MARCH 3, 2020

On the contrary, Procurement often plays the bad cop role, creating barriers to onboard new and innovative suppliers, asking for endless compliance documents, ending the magic of the incubation. Buyers need to put aside their compliance hats and put on their entrepreneurial ones! Yet, these initiatives are rarely owned by Procurement.

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Procurement Supplier Collaboration Innovation 72

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

In spite of such major policy developments, we still lack the specific and rigorous evidence on the impact of transparency interventions and which types of transparency matter for which actors to support desirable societal outcomes such as high quality public services, procedural justice or public sector integrity (Bauhr et al, 2019).

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Select GCR

APRIL 26, 2024

One key aspect of our program is teaching you how to effectively nurture relationships with government buyers and prime contractors. It’s crucial to understand the unique needs and priorities of each agency and demonstrate a commitment to delivering value and quality service.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

One significant area of Artificial Intelligence is language understanding, also called machine reading comprehension (MRC), and the new technologies in this field lead the way for thousands of new applications, such as sourcing, trend analysis, conversational agents, sentiment analysis, document management, cross-language business development, etc.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. Second, they sought to leverage Paraguay’s accessible, high quality open contracting data.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The fundamental tenets of fairness, value for money, and transparency form the foundation of public procurement and contribute to the development of an atmosphere that benefits suppliers as well as buyers. Value for Money (VfM) in Public Procurement What Does Value for Money Mean in Public Procurement?

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Public Procurement Transparency Procurement Tender 52

ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

One significant area of Artificial Intelligence is language understanding, also called machine reading comprehension (MRC), and the new technologies in this field lead the way for thousands of new applications, such as sourcing, trend analysis, conversational agents, sentiment analysis, document management, cross-language business development, etc.

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ivalua

MAY 28, 2014

Internally, buyers and engineers must work with quality and product; then that cross-functional group must collaborate with external suppliers. Manufacturers should look for solutions that allow all parties to interact and collaborate quickly – especially around complex BOM structures and design documents.

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The Procurement School

MAY 12, 2023

The answer is to develop a contract management plan that includes strategies for: Establishing a positive relationship between the owner (or buyer) and the contractor; Identifying problems early; and Adapting for unexpected. Contractors need to understand the quality measures that the owner will apply to the services and deliverables.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. All Dutch authorities must publish their above-the-threshold tenders via the TenderNed platform , so businesses can access all public data and documents from a single webpage.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

Therefore, following discussions at the ISF EU Hackathon last year, we wondered if AI could assist us in identifying green requirements in real procurement documents based on a predefined list of recommended green requirements. It is regularly procured across Europe and its green requirements are well documented by the EU.

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Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Their performance is crucial to achieving your financial, performance and quality objectives, and a poor supplier creates risks for everything from budget overruns to missed schedules and liability lawsuits. Among them are aggregators that bring together buyers and sellers.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Managed Print Solutions (SP-21-046) Please note that one of the framework suppliers on the Managed Print Solutions framework has changed its name from Capital Document Solutions Ltd to Agilico (Scotland) Ltd. Capital Document Solutions supply an extensive range of managed print services to public bodies.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Since launching their platform in 2020, Diegues and Blanco have built a set of digital tools and data analytics services that have bridged the gap between more than 250 private sector users and public procurement buyers in six countries across Latin America. They started with a simple idea that is complex to implement in practice.

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Data Public Procurement Tender Price 57

Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Individual takes a sample from Peatland ACTION and Galloway Fisheries Trust Water Quality Monitoring Point at Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve. We will also be in person at the Meet the Buyer North event taking place on 12 September 2023 at Aberdeen Music Hall.

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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. Having good document comparison, change tracking, version control and audit trails is important for this process to run smoothly. Why is it Important to Manage Contracts?

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

VIGIA is a unique initiative that allows entrepreneurs to easily find public procurement business opportunities in Paraguay, as well as provide real-time high-quality feedback about irregularities. One key issue that became increasingly evident was the limited engagement between entrepreneurs and buyers.

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Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 30, 2024

M&A negotiations are one of the most complex negotiations there are, and they usually comprise four stages: (i) the acquisition stage, (ii) the negotiation stage, (iii) the signing of the transaction documents, and (iv) the closing stage. Claudia Salomon and Mr. Eduardo Damião Gonçalves. As President of the ICC Court, Ms.

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Efficiency Negotiation Buyers Price 52

The Procurement School

AUGUST 11, 2023

Part of the outcome for assessing efficiency is to determine the appropriate level of resources to support the function and the quality of the work, which becomes a benchmark. For example, moving from a manual process of issuing purchase orders and bid documents to an e-procurement system such as Ariba® or Euna Solutions.

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ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

getting involved early on in the New Product Introduction ( NPI) cycle to ensure suppliers risk is being properly evaluated in production capacity and quality. Giving buyers the proper tools to become key business partners is not a “nice to have” scenario—it is a critical path to managing risk and ensuring success.

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Supply Chain Supplier Manufacturing Strategic Sourcing 40

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay. Also included: supplier improvement plans, innovation plans and overall supplier collaboration. Contract Management: The piece that connects the upstream and the downstream, where value starts being captured.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Identifying agency commitments will incentivize industry to compete for the BPA and improve the quality of any responses submitted. Through working with PPH over the past two years, members have learned how service dogs play an important role in veterans’ healthcare and quality of life.

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