Art of Procurement

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The AOP Buyer Power Score is a content offering created in partnership with ProcurementIQ that rates the balance of power. The post Buyer Power Score – Intermodal Container Rental appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Art of Procurement

AUGUST 23, 2022

The AOP Buyer Power Score is a content offering created in partnership with ProcurementIQ that rates the balance of power. The post Buyer Power Score – Trade Show Displays appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This guide breaks down the crucial steps: identifying contracting opportunities, understanding procurement processes, and building relationships with government buyers. Key Takeaways Understand the unique decision-making dynamics and purchasing policies of government buyers to tailor your offerings and build strong relationships.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. The data also indicates that buyers are making a concerted effort to improve their planning.

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USFCR

JANUARY 20, 2025

Follow these steps to position your business: Complete Your SAM Registration : Federal contracting starts with an active SAM (System for Award Management) registration. Network with Agencies : Build relationships with federal buyers and contracting officers. Learn more about our SAM Registration Assistance.

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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Art of Procurement, a media company focused on the value potential of corporate procurement and supply management, has announced its. The post Art of Procurement Acquires Buyers Meeting Point and MyPurchasingCenter appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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USFCR

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Contracting officers, program managers, and prime contractors prefer to work with businesses they trust. Network with military buyers and government decision-makers awarding contracts for defense infrastructure projects. The most effective way to develop these relationships is by attending Industry events. Why attend? Why attend?

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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. “We

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Given that agencies spend hundreds of billions of dollars on goods and services the more procurement data it has, the better it can understand trends and ‘manage’ procurement. And so how has that enabled better management of contracting systems? The government both creates and runs on data. Tom Temin: Right.

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Art of Procurement

APRIL 4, 2024

China’s role in the global supply chain is changing right before our eyes, leaving foreign buyers to feel the discomfort. The post Even with +1, China is still #1 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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USFCR

APRIL 17, 2025

Commercial item contracts simplify the process, allowing small businesses to sell their standard products to federal buyers with minimal modifications. Government agencies often purchase goods and services from the same marketplace as private-sector businesses.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? What are the pros and cons, and what supply chain strategy will pave the way to higher margins, improved supply chain risk management in healthcare and improved patient care?

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Preparation is essential for success in government contracting, involving steps such as registration in the System for Award Management (SAM), identifying your NAICS code , and assessing business readiness. Government agencies as major buyers The U.S.

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ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Massy, France 18 March , 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, and CKS BeNeLux today announced that Punch Powertrain has successfully deployed Ivalua’s platform to support the digital transformation of the strategic sourcing process.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Lifted from their latest webinar, Jean-Baptiste Anne from Amazon Business and Vishal Patel from Ivalua offer insights into tail spend management programs and the ROI these programs can generate for procurement teams. . The post Creating Tail Spend ROI Through an Improved Buyer Experience appeared first on Ivalua. We’re here to help.

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2020

On the other hand, let us not forget a wise piece of advice from Procurement Management expert, Natacha Trehan , in her keynote last year at Ivalua NOW – every customer wants to collaborate with the best suppliers, which means that, eventually, the supplier chooses who they want to work with. At Urgo, they do. Let’s get started!

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

MARCH 22, 2024

A skilled buyer will conduct due diligence prior to making any business decision to ensure that it can add value and is the best option for the organisation. Part of the due diligence should be identifying, understanding the importance of stakeholder management related to the project or procurement. your colleagues and managers.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 2, 2025

So the government is different from commercial buyers in that it buys a lot of stuff that is going to be around a long time. Tom Temin: All right, so buyers across the government should keep this in mind? Dan Ramish: I think that’s right.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repositor. The first immediate application of language understanding is clause repository management.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We had the opportunity to speak with Dorchester County’s Former Purchasing Services Manager, John Tigert, to gain insight on how cooperative purchasing helped him enhance his strategy and savings. When you get to numbers like 30,40, even $60,000 in savings, that’s a buyer, that’s a contract coordinator for a lot of counties.

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GovCon Chamber of Commerce

JANUARY 4, 2024

Major mission and management challenges? When you take time to research, you will be much better prepared for quality conversations with federal agencies and get referrals toward the right buyers. What are their specific key strategic goals, objectives and key activities? Strategic' Relationships are mutually beneficial.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM). Source: Authors’s elaboration.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 27, 2024

GSA created the CPI program under a proof-of-concept moniker with awards to Amazon, Fischer and Overstock Government in 2020 under direction from Congress with a goal of capturing data on and managing products under the micro purchase threshold of $10,000.

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ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. To top it all off, extremely tight supply markets have further shifted negotiating leverage from buyers to suppliers. Effectively managing suppliers is now one of the most important factors in organizational success.

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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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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

From this narrow perspective, procurement would be primarily concerned with ensuring the integrity and probity of decision-making processes involving the management of public funds, as well as fostering the generation of value for money through effective reliance on competition for public contracts.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Supplier Relationship Management has taken on new meaning in the unprecedented times in which we find ourselves living. Supplier Relationship Management – time to rewrite the rule-book? Supplier Relationship Management is not limited to identifying 1% of strategic suppliers and forgetting the rest.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Instead of dealing with a flood of unstructured or inconsistent feedback from various sources, officials can prioritize key issues and ensure the right team members address them efficiently, making the whole process more manageable. In October 2024, use of the pre-bidding module became mandatory for Mexico City’s buyers. What’s next?

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Witt says he often points government buyers to the following quote as they begin any initiative: “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” – Dr. W. Edwards Deming , a leading proponent of statistical quality control in organizations.

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ivalua

APRIL 6, 2021

A Guide to Contract Management Tools and Processes including a guide to the key steps of the Contract Lifecycle Management Process and to the benefits that using Contract Management software can bring to your Procurement processes. An Overview of Contract Lifecycle Management. Why is it Important to Manage Contracts?

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CGPSS can also support the development of procurement policy and procedures, deliver procurement training courses and provide mentoring to an organisations own buyers and end-users. The service design is sufficiently flexible to be tailored to each of the diverse organisations within the sector.

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GovCon Chamber of Commerce

AUGUST 5, 2024

If federal buyers find enough qualified businesses in their own directory, they won't look anywhere else! Register in the HHS Vendor Supplier Portal to rise above your competition. You need to get inside HHS!

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The system is a secure and efficient way for Buyers and Suppliers to manage tender exercises online. The standard templates enable Buyers to easily create consistent tender documentation and allows Suppliers to save and reuse tender responses. All opportunities are first advertised on Public Contracts Scotland (PCS).

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The Procurement School

MAY 12, 2023

Author: Liz Busch Planning for a procurement should consider the entire procurement lifecycle, including contract management and close-out. Identify Problems Early Contract management plans need to include processes to identify issues early so that they can more easily be resolved. Consider the BATNA.

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The Procurement School

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For example, a Buyer was tasked with ordering scientific equipment and lab supplies for a university in Africa. The Buyer received a frantic call from their onsite contact that they needed an additional $2000 CDN for the truck driver to unload the crate from the plane. On a global perspective, ethics may be different.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As part of their social responsibility policy, they’ve given members of the civil society community access to their Red Flags Management system, redflags.ai. But many buyers are still reluctant to use such complicated procedures because they’re unsure of how control agencies view the use of award criteria other than lowest price.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teamwork is essential when cities and counties plan to buy new systems and equipment, says Gary Mitchell , director of SLED (state, local and education) business development at Iron Mountain Government Solutions , a company that provides secure management of data and assets; it works to protect, connect and activate high-value customer data.

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