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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 categorymanagement approach, organizing procurement around the primary categories of spend.
ETSNext will further categorymanagement objectives by consolidating more than 30 data models used across the ETS2 systems into one centralized model,” Burke said in a statement. The post GSA taps IBM to support next-generation federal travel and expense platform first appeared on Federal News Network.
Over the course of several months, the ITVMO, the Office of Management and Budget and Microsofts federal division discussed the governments requests and proposed additional ways to establish a strategic partnership, Stanton wrote in the blog obtained by Federal News Network.
Check out CIO-SP3 with its 137 labor categories and ten task areas, CIO-SP3 Small Business with depth in five socioeconomic categories, or CIO-CS for IT Commodities and As-A-Service Solutions. Read ahead for a quick synopsis and check out the full Federal News Network 2021-2022 NITAAC Contract Guide for more information.
There are many factors: e.g., unintended consequences of categorymanagement, increased regulatory compliance, and instability in the market due to continuing resolutions and recurring threats of government shutdowns.
It helps me with categorymanagement. But that is not the panacea for categorymanagement. reshaping acquisition organization, processes first appeared on Federal News Network. Michael Derrios is the senior procurement executive at the State Department. “It How do we aggregate the demand?” We use those.
Consus partnered with Ivalua to lead the implementation and transformation effort at Intalere to drive cost savings, transparency and improved efficiencies across contracting and categorymanagement across the organization. Our partnership with Ivalua & Consus really is a win-win.”
But now with strategic sourcing and categorymanagement, the process has become much easier to track, monitor and control. Blog first published by our friends at Purchase to Pay Network. We still need – for the moment at least – human insight into the data and what to do with it. Register here for Ivalua NOW Paris.
George held several leadership positions within the agency, including Regional Commissioner of the Greater Southwest Region, and he served as the inaugural Government-wide CategoryManager for Industrial Products and Services. Steve is respected not only in the U.S.,
Hosted by the HUBZone Contractors National Counci l it was an event filled with networking and educational sessions. Costs related to compliance in addition to existing barriers of entry faced by small businesses, including categorymanagement, use of various IDVs/BPAs/IDIQs, OTAs could all be factors for the agency goals not being met.
Hosted by the HUBZone Contractors National Counci l it was an event filled with networking and educational sessions. Costs related to compliance in addition to existing barriers of entry faced by small businesses, including categorymanagement, use of various IDVs/BPAs/IDIQs, OTAs could all be factors for the agency goals not being met.
Consus partnered with Ivalua to lead the implementation and transformation effort at Intalere to drive cost savings, transparency and improved efficiencies across contracting and categorymanagement across the organization. Our partnership with Ivalua & Consus really is a win-win.”
It’s the product of years of user research, the team saw a need to help COs really rapidly procure the goods and services needed for COVID response while still aligning right to overall good federal taxpayer stewardship as well as categorymanagement principles.
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He also talked about the recent release and the new features there, such as a new user interface across the platform, a new categorymanagement module (which I want to investigate more) and an integrated “digital assistant” at platform level. But it was her comments around “symbiosis” that were most thought-provoking.
Assemble your team of friends and colleagues and save the date to compete for prizes, network with colleague, and contribute to some worthy causes. The plan outlines how DHS will use research and development to “keep pace with technology by leveraging research and development to address homeland security challenges.”
In fact, as you know, Laura Stanton, who runs the GSA affairs, is ITC organization is the governmentwide categorymanager for technology products and services. Because I mean, it is one government. Sonny Hashmi Absolutely. We do all the time.
That, of course, requires an environment that attracts new talent and offers modern training and development opportunities, where the acquisition workforce members actually build communities both inside and across federal agencies through networking and other learning opportunities,” Harada said in an interview with Federal News Network.
CMMC is coming, but concerns for small businesses persist under revamped rule - Federal News Network) The Army has laid out its initial thinking of a new contract to set up an agile software development pipeline for recruiting. Award categories also include innovation, data and technology, and categorymanagement.
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“I am managing the agency personally. Federal News Network previously reported that a DOGE team has taken up offices within GSA’s headquarters. VA spokesperson told Federal News Network last month that the VA “will conduct its own review of the departments charge cards and report its findings to GSA.
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