Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

Oversees the analysis of cost, performance, quality, service and delivery. Manages and oversees the central procurement system to maintain the integrity of the public procurement process and guard against ethical challenges and charges of fraud, waste or inefficiency. Three (3) years supervisory experience.

Purchasing 100

Purchasing Management Warehouse E-procurement 100

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.

Public Procurement 135

Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

It was impossible to analyze the decisions of Ukraine’s procurement review body, the Antimonopoly Committee, in a comprehensive way to understand when the outcome favored the buyer and when it favored the vendor. percentage points more than the average success rate for appeals in Prozorro (72%), excluding Clarity App buyers.

Procurement 67

Procurement Tender Buyers Public Procurement 67

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Working with one supplier under single-supplier systems guarantees constant quality and easier administration. 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.

Framework Agreement 52

Framework Agreement Procurement Supplier Tender 52

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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. of the federal government’s overall annual contracting and buying goes to Hispanic-owned businesses.

Buyers 115

Buyers Procurement Contract Government Contracts 115

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).

Strategic Sourcing 52

Strategic Sourcing E-auction Automotive E-procurement 52

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.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

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.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Buyers Supplier E-procurement 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.

Bidder 52

Bidder Tender Buyers Bidding 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Aurélien Vépierre, Procurement Director for Viparis, explains: “We needed a flexible tool that could standardize our processes and help our buyers optimize the way they handle calls for tender. We were convinced by the quality and the extensive functional scope of the Ivalua solution.

E-procurement 53

E-procurement Procurement Tender Supplier 53

ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

This means a significant risk of low commitment rates and low-quality (and therefore unreliable) data. Decarbonization will generate a significant increase in the amount of data buyers must manage. To improve efficiency, quality, and data capitalization, the buyer must have digitized tools at their disposal.

Supplier 52

Supplier Supply Chain Purchasing Buyers 52

Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

The platform provides information on contracts available for bidding, buyer behaviour tracking, and market data to facilitate the tendering process. Buyer and competitor tracking: The platform can track the activities of potential customers and competitors. CAG Consultants significantly reduced the time taken to identify opportunities.

Tender 52

Tender Bidding Buyers Competitive Bidding 52

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.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supplier Ethics Sustainability 52

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).

Bidder 40

Bidder Transparency Contract Public Procurement 40

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We want to unlock its power to improve economic inclusion and sustainability, rebuild integrity and trust, and deliver the quality public services that we all deserve. It is an underfunded, paper-based government chore: we want to turn procurement into a smart, user-friendly, digital public service.

Procurement 89

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 89

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

These public procurement principles allow businesses of all sizes to participate equitably, protect the integrity of taxpayer money, and encourage competition and efficiency. Value for money procurement goes beyond selecting the lowest-cost supplier; it considers the most advantageous combination of price, quality, and sustainability.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Transparency Procurement Tender 52

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.

Government 102

Government Government Government Contracts Media 102

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.

Procurement 62

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

ivalua

APRIL 12, 2019

A recent Ivalua study with Forester identified capacity being consumed by operational and manual activities as one barrier, along with a lack of contextual access to insights, and poor data quality as other blockers. That includes an integrated virtual digital assistant – IVA- to help customers make better, faster decisions.

Supplier 70

Supplier Capacity Procurement Team Procurement 70

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.

Evaluation 40

Evaluation Networking E-procurement Supplier 40

ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. At the same time, organizations have never been more exposed to risk from their supply chains, from supply continuity, quality, or ESG violations. financial data, ESG scores…), provides the requisite visibility.

Supplier 52

Supplier Management Collaboration Supply Chain 52

ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

New platform release features a broad set of enhancements across Ivalua’s complete Source-to-Pay suite, including deep integration with Amazon Business. The release also adds or deepens integrations with Ivalua’s growing partner ecosystem to improve decision-making and optimize the purchasing experience for users.

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Innovation Supplier Collaboration 40

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. For us, this was a discovery.

Tender 52

Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In recent years, the company has been consistently implementing advanced technological solutions, thus improving the quality, safety and effectiveness of its operations. The possibility of integrating the new tool with the solutions already adopted within the organization, including SAP, is also of crucial importance.

E-procurement 40

E-procurement Tender Supplier Buyers 40

Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

The aim of the Requirements Reserved for Supported Businesses DPS is to provide Scottish Public Sector and Third Sector Bodies (Framework Public Bodies) with a clear path for the purchase of goods and services from Supported Businesses and in doing so, support the integration of disabled and disadvantaged citizens into the mainstream workforce.

Collaboration 67

Collaboration E-catalogue Framework Agreement E-procurement 67

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

It consisted of 20 meetings with international experts, politicians, buyers and analysts ( recordings available in Russian). It inspired the creation of a free self-guided e-course on Open Contracting Basics too.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Participation 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Here are some of the key aspects of the current strategy that have raised uncertainty among FAS’s industry partners: The current pool structure is inconsistent with commercial practice and delivering an integrated, holistic cloud solution, as it will increase complexity, risk, and costs for customer agencies and MAS contractors.

Procurement 52

Procurement Data Strategic Planning Management 52

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay. There is huge value in a tightly integrated S2P process where data can easily be updated, workflows are linked together, analytics span across process areas, etc.

Supplier 52

Supplier E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Therefore, by using the supplier’s desire for payment, and good quality data, top performing organizations can achieve high levels of straight-through-processing and automation. . If at any stage buyer interaction is required, this is provided via a low touch email or mobile friendly interface.

Supplier 40

Supplier Accountability Supply Chain End to End 40

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.

Participation 52

Participation Procurement Strategies Procurement Buyers 52

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Economic Considerations Creating supply chains that help to reduce costs, minimise over spending, and help to improve product quality. This will allow buyers to have clear information on their approach, and how to overcome current risks and promote sustainable changes.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement 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.

Procurement 52

Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52

Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These scenarios often involve a need for expertise, standardization, quality, compatibility, and exclusive availability of products or services. However, a sole source justification based solely on quality, preference, or standard price comparisons is invalid. This helps to maintain the integrity of the procurement process.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supplier Price Competitive Bidding 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

VA Hospitals Earn High Rankings in Nationwide Surveys Federal News Network reports that the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) hospitals scored higher than non-VA hospitals on two nationwide surveys tracking quality of care and patient satisfaction. Only 40 percent of non-VA hospitals received these ratings.

Procurement 52

Procurement Contract Networking Budget 52

University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Public buyers seeking to procure goods, services or works from the market need to process large amounts of information to choose a responsible provider offering the best possible terms on quality, cost, experience, etc. Emerging approaches in the EU and the UK are suboptimal and stronger governance mechanisms should be created.

Procurement 52

Procurement Government Government Buyers 52

University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

NHS commissioning takes place in a largely in-house environment where NHS buyers commission services primarily from NHS suppliers, but also with mixed private participation by both for-profit and third sector providers.

Tender 52

Tender E-procurement Procurement Transparency 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52