Tracker Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

Being paid reliably means more risks can be undertaken elsewhere, using your new resources to innovate and expand your offering. For any business, collaboration begets innovation. Government procurement frameworks allow buyers to select suppliers and set terms and conditions for a set period of time.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

To start the conversation about how to better address these challenges, FMM organized the first Regional Policy Dialogue aimed at developing an innovative agenda to transform public expenditure management through smarter procurement practices. In contrast, relational contracting emphasizes cooperation for mutual benefit.

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Public Procurement Procurement Strategic Planning Balance 52

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

GSA’s assistant commissioner for the office of strategic innovation, Charlotte Phalen, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more details. She’s the assistant commissioner for the Office of Strategy and Innovation at the General Services Administration. Tom Temin: We’re speaking with Charlotte Fallin.

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Data Procurement Price Efficiency 85

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In October 2024, use of the pre-bidding module became mandatory for Mexico City’s buyers. It is built on free and open-source software meaning the technology can be adopted and adapted by other governments. What’s next?

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Collaboration E-procurement Tender Bidding 57

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

John Cockerill was looking for a unified end-to-end spend management platform to be deployed across 4 business units in 22 countries, helping to reduce administrative tasks for the buyers, improve the fluidity of the procurement process and optimize collaboration between internal stakeholder and suppliers in a highly secure environment.

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Select GCR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Challenge.gov Challenge.gov hosts competitions and prize challenges where small businesses can showcase their innovative solutions to meet federal agency needs. Similarly, Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (GWACs) are long-term contracts that provide cost-effective, innovative IT solutions for federal agencies.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As well in June, we had Meet the Buyer National, a great event that took place in Hampden Park in Glasgow, where businesses, social enterprises, and third sector organisations, all came together with Scottish public procurers. A really good and enjoyable event. Don’t forget to register and I look forward to seeing you on the day.

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Procurement Buyers Public Procurement Supplier 57

ivalua

MAY 28, 2014

At one time, these were innovative, effective tools but compared to the Nexus of Information, spreadsheets and email have become slow and limiting. Internally, buyers and engineers must work with quality and product; then that cross-functional group must collaborate with external suppliers.

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Supply Chain Innovation Total Cost of Ownership Cost of Ownership 40

Federal News Network

AUGUST 1, 2024

In general, M&A is a big consideration on the buyer side and the seller side. I often hear from small contractors that they weren’t considering a sale until a buyer approached them. For the buyer, there should be a strong business case for acquiring the contractor. subsidiary), then buyers may avoid novation.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

After this came the next AP Automation project, and ever so slowly, innovation just became the norm, now it’s legacy Invoice Processing. It breaks the bond between Buyer and Supplier, resulting in fragile supply chains and lots of mistrust. It was a fun project and it felt like the first step towards something more powerful.

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E-procurement Supplier Buyers Supply Chain 94

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

One of its key takeaways is that the Commission recommends Member States to s tep up innovation procurement investments in digital sector. The Commission has identified that ‘ While the roll-out of digital public services is progressing steadily, investment in public procurement of innovative digital solutions (e.g. original emphasis).

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Procurement Public Procurement Innovation Buyers 64

ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The release includes a broad set of innovations to help organizations better manage their spend and suppliers. Specific release highlights include: Supplier Management Innovations: . Sourcing Innovations: . Ivalua streamlines the process of building, quoting, and analyzing supplier proposals. Learn more at www.ivalua.com.

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Supply Chain Innovation Supplier Collaboration 40

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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Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

Scottish Government Procurement

AUGUST 22, 2024

This one-day event attracts public sector buyers, heads of department and contract managers responsible for managing the national public procurement expenditure of £16 billion a year. Running alongside Procurex Scotland, our conference will take place at SEC Glasgow on Thursday 24 October 2024.

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Procurement Public Procurement Supply Chain Buyers 60

ivalua

APRIL 8, 2020

They miss the huge opportunity of co-innovating with these businesses, especially startups, by failing to take a differentiated approach. This is a method medium-size companies have already integrated in their supplier innovation strategy. Is a strong supplier innovation strategy the key to additional growth points?

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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

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Benefits of Framework Agreements Framework agreements offer a streamlined procurement process that benefits both buyers and suppliers by simplifying the qualification and tendering stages, ultimately saving time and money.

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GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With troves of information available, the marketplace should be a breeding ground for data innovation, revealing opportunities. I fell in love with their mission to arm buyers and sellers in the public sector with intelligence, enabling them to be more proactive and competitive in their markets and in their spending.

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Data Quality Purchasing Transparency 105

ivalua

JULY 13, 2022

Buyers are expected to scrutinize every aspect of the purchasing process to identify ways to reduce their carbon footprint, source sustainable materials, and promote diversity. As the sourcing function evolves, digital procurement technologies have become crucial tools for buyers to capture and report their sustainability achievements.

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Sustainability Buyers Supplier E-procurement 52

ivalua

JUNE 27, 2022

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. This removes risk when buying from innovative or SME suppliers while creating a larger supplier base to target with early payment opportunities via C2FO marketplace.

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Supply Chain Buyers Supplier IT 52

How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

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. If a bid is incorrectly evaluated, the buyer can hardly hold the AI response generator accountable.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We’d lose the innovation and the benefits of greater competition that diversity in the marketplace brings. These attempts to weaken the 8(a) program are incredibly misguided and dangerous.

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Buyers Procurement Contract Government Contracts 114

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). Please visit our website: www.cks-consulting.com/en. About Punch Powertrain.

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Strategic Sourcing E-auction Automotive E-procurement 52

ivalua

JUNE 28, 2021

Financial impact of COVID-19 has delayed payments and kept focus on cost, but research shows this is adversely affecting supplier relationships and access to innovation. The research, conducted by Coleman Parkes, surveyed 300 suppliers across the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland, to examine supplier relationships with their buyers.

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Supplier Supply Chain Buyers Collaboration 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Almost seven-in-ten (69%) respondents said that it should be made easier to collaborate with buyers on sustainability. Furthermore, over a third of suppliers believe that improving their ability to share information (35%) and collaborate with buyers on improvements (35%) would significantly increase their ability to deliver green initiatives.

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Supplier Supply Chain Buyers Sustainability 52

ivalua

MARCH 5, 2020

And increasingly, that means collaborative working with key suppliers who can support that need to be innovative, flexible and agile. Sometimes action can be taken by the buyer that either does not affect the supplier or just requires their agreement.

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Collaboration Procurement Supply Chain Supplier 52

ivalua

MARCH 3, 2020

Innovation labs and incubators have multiplied in major corporations to try to find the next startup that will rejuvenate their business models. In the last years, this approach been seen as the Holy Grail to unlocking innovation of enterprises. Buyers need to put aside their compliance hats and put on their entrepreneurial ones!

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Procurement Supplier Collaboration Innovation 72

ivalua

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Conversely, some Procurement departments have discovered that non-strategic suppliers, or even tier two suppliers, offer them innovative solutions to alleviate the shortage. It knows that its most innovative suppliers are sometimes start-ups which spend amount classifies as tail spend. To whom will they offer their latest innovation?

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Supplier Management Supply Chain Tender 52

ivalua

MARCH 28, 2019

capturing and exploiting innovation from supply markets and individual suppliers becoming a top priority for organisations and therefore procurement functions. I’ve argued elsewhere that actually, if procurement doesn’t change and widen its scope, we in the profession may face existential issues of survival, as technology advances further.

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The Softly Spark

AUGUST 8, 2024

This misleading practice of making false green claims has left many buyers skeptical of products touted as eco-friendly. According to the Harvard Business Review , highlighting other positive attributes of a product, such as innovativeness, novelty, and safety, is one way to counteract negative associations of green products.

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Sustainability Transparency Buyers Quality 98

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2022

Creating a dialogue with suppliers ensures that procurement teams can identify opportunities for innovation in a green supply chain that benefits all parties. Our report demonstrated that nearly seven-in-ten (69%) companies said collaborating with buyers on sustainability should be made easier.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Supplier Collaboration 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Creating a dialogue with suppliers ensures that procurement teams can identify opportunities for innovation in a green supply chain that benefits all parties. Our report demonstrated that nearly seven-in-ten (69%) companies said collaborating with buyers on sustainability should be made easier.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Supplier Collaboration 52

Select GCR

MAY 7, 2024

This interactive exchange promotes a dynamic marketplace characterized by enhanced competition, innovation, and alignment between federal government needs and NAICS code or industry capabilities. Through this platform, a small business can gain increased visibility to government buyers actively searching for contractors.

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Government Contracts Government Government Contract 98

Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Innovation Scotland Innovates has so far received 135 submissions through the service in diverse areas such as low-cost hydrogen production, detection of atrial fibrillation (major cause of stroke), circular economy – lighting, prevention of infant new born deafness to lung cancer – AI and circular economy lighting.

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Collaboration E-catalogue Framework Agreement E-procurement 67

Federal News Network

MARCH 25, 2024

A host of recent studies have identified the shrinking industrial base serving the federal government and the corresponding impact on competition, innovation, and costs. GSA’s proposed legislation would address these government buyer needs and will fundamentally improve procurement operations for agencies and the American people.

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Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Buyers 58

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As buyers we often expect a lot from our suppliers, but do we take the time to think about what they need from us in order to perform to the standard we often demand of them? Accepting, adopting and promoting the use of innovation is a positive move. Be keen to listen to new ideas and challenge the status quo.

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Supplier Supply Chain Ethics Sustainability 52

Select GCR

APRIL 26, 2024

Innovative Methods With CSGMP, we go beyond traditional approaches to ensure your business achieves unparalleled visibility and engagement with key government contacts. One key aspect of our program is teaching you how to effectively nurture relationships with government buyers and prime contractors.

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