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Ten years later, agencies still making gains on category management

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billion in costs through category management in fiscal 2024, nearly 29% above their goal for the year. And while no one would say government purchasing has exactly become simple in the intervening 10 years, category management and best-in-class contracting have done their share of work toward making things better.

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State Dept transforming procurement with category management, streamlined processes

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Federal Monthly Insights - Contract Management Modernization - 9/24/2024 [link] Download audio The State Department is embarking on a transformation in how it performs acquisition. It’s moving to a category management approach, organizing procurement around the primary categories of spend.

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[Pod] Designing an End-to-End Ecosystem Approach to Procurement Part 2: Category Management

Art of Procurement

The post [Pod] Designing an End-to-End Ecosystem Approach to Procurement Part 2: Category Management appeared first on Art of Procurement. “Digital products become a bedrock of all the processes and the transformation that is taking place in the organization.” –Sanjeev.

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GSA closes in on enterprisewide software deal with Microsoft

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When the Office of Federal Procurement Policy launched its Better Contracting Initiative in November 2023, leaders promised this time would be different when it came to developing enterprisewide software licenses. GSA says its IT Vendor Management Office is close to finalizing a governmentwide deal with Microsoft.

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Contract Management’s Impact on Procurement Efficiency

The Procurement School

Contract Management is often thought to be the last step in the Procurement life cycle but instead it is both the beginning and end of the procurement cycle and it provides a constant feedback loop. The following article discusses the various steps of contract management and its role in procurement efficiency.

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Contracting officers benefit from a bot in the seat to their right

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The Office Of Management and Budget and General Services Administration have been fielding a data integration tool to help contracting officers. Dubbed Co-Pilot, it gathers data from various governmentwide procurement systems, and presents buyers with pricing histories, vendor information and other data to help their decisions.

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2024 GAO Bid Protest Report: Numbers Down, Effectiveness Still Even Odds

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61 – Number of sustained protests 16% – Percentage of sustained protests, quite a bit lower than last year (due to the CIO-SP4 procurement), but similar to 4 out of the last 5 years. In the prior year a large number of sustained protests were related to a large number of protests of one single procurement. Why Are Cases Sustained?

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