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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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GSA taps IBM to support next-generation federal travel and expense platform

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ETSNext will further category management 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.

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GSA closes in on enterprisewide software deal with Microsoft

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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.

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Federal News Network 2021-2022 NITAAC Contract Guide

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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.

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The benefits of ‘best value’ for small businesses in the federal market

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There are many factors: e.g., unintended consequences of category management, increased regulatory compliance, and instability in the market due to continuing resolutions and recurring threats of government shutdowns.

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State Dept. reshaping acquisition organization, processes

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It helps me with category management. But that is not the panacea for category management. 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.