The Procurement School

JULY 16, 2024

One of the greatest sources of contract disputes is how to handle price increase requests where there is no clear contract language. The best method is an evidence-based approach showing the underlying cause of the price increase. Automated expiry and renewal alerts reminders are an important component of contract management.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2021

. – Spend control through real-time visibility into budget consumption, negotiated prices, preferred suppliers, engagement channels. Also, an eprocurement solution provides you with clean spend data, which is the basis for a sound spend analysis and eventually relevant category management.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MAY 17, 2024

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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Federal News Network

JULY 8, 2024

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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NIH NITAAC

JULY 1, 2021

With Category Management principles and a “Best in Class” certification, NITAAC GSS allows agencies to buy their laptops, desktops and tablets with confidence, knowing that they are receiving the highest quality products at the most competitive prices possible.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

billion target by using 2015-16 prices as its baseline. Even if prices had not reduced in any year compared with the year before, a saving was reported as long as prices were lower than that of the baseline year. The model includes savings generated across the total system, not just the price of the product.

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Great Government Through Technology

AUGUST 19, 2024

By centralizing our engagement processes and encouraging industry to view government agencies as “one customer,” we are ensuring that all government agencies, large and small, benefit from the best possible terms and prices, avoiding the inefficiencies of fragmented and duplicative contract terms.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 12, 2024

George held several leadership positions within the agency, including Regional Commissioner of the Greater Southwest Region, and he served as the inaugural Government-wide Category Manager for Industrial Products and Services.

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Art of Procurement

MARCH 26, 2024

Suppliers understand the time-consuming and challenging nature of responding to requests for proposals, security questionnaires, pricing requests, and other customer. The post AOP Introducing… RFP Ninja appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Once the above steps are completed the procurement resource will have identified the type of procurement method, the associated risks and mitigation strategy, RFx scope and deliverables, required disclosures, evaluation criteria and pricing strategy. Here is a link to the Federal Government’s website explaining its procurement process.

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GovSpend

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

There are many advantages to this program including winning set-aside contracts and getting a 10% price evaluation preferential in full and open competition contracts. Of course there are requirements to being part of this program, including having your business located in a HubZone.

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GovSpend

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

There are many advantages to this program including winning set-aside contracts and getting a 10% price evaluation preferential in full and open competition contracts. Of course there are requirements to being part of this program, including having your business located in a HubZone.

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ivalua

APRIL 13, 2021

A great example is Meritor , who brought a unique approach to supplier collaboration and new product introductions to life, delivering more products at higher profit to support a board level initiative and multiply their stock price. Many other organizations have leveraged this strategy, but almost all can do so better to drive greater value.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This year’s Fall Training Conference featured six opportunities, including GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), GSA Pricing Tools, GSA Customer and Stakeholder Engagement (CASE), Medical/Surgical Supply BPAs, VA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), and VA Pathfinder.

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NIH NITAAC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The NITAAC GWACs can be used by any agency to acquire information technology services, solutions, and commodities from pre-qualified vendors at lower than open-market prices in less time than going the traditional full and open route. GWACs were created as a mechanism to reduce the timeframe to meet an agency’s mission-critical IT needs.

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E-procurement Budget Purchasing Category Management 52

NIH NITAAC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The NITAAC GWACs can be used by any agency to acquire information technology services, solutions, and commodities from pre-qualified vendors at lower than open-market prices in less time than going the traditional full and open route. GWACs were created as a mechanism to reduce the timeframe to meet an agency’s mission-critical IT needs.

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E-procurement Budget Purchasing Category Management 52

ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

Some lessons regarding managing supply chain risk may still help in the near term as companies struggle to reconfigure their supply base to an evolving pandemic. First, category managers should look to investment professionals and take a broad portfolio view of supplier risk management.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MAY 13, 2024

This year’s Spring Training Conference featured opportunities, including GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS), GSA Pricing Tools, SAM.Gov, Medical/Surgical Supply BPAs, VA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), VA Prosthetics, and the DHS Intellectual Property (IP) Investigations Center.

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Supply Chain Procurement Participation Professional Services 59

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Identifying Value , is where procurement teams leverage spend data and spend analysis to understand trends in spend and identify opportunities and develop category management strategies. . There are, in fact different phases of procurement value creation that tie into the Source-to-Pay process: .

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 2, 2024

Ultimately, if the government has insights into what is being bought, where it’s coming from, who’s producing it, what the carbon impact is, what the competitive pricing are. Because I mean, it is one government. Sonny Hashmi Absolutely. We do all the time.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Sonia Pesantes, Managing Principal Consultant, and Sean Nulty, Principal Consultant, will present insights from their experiences with the Information Technology (IT) center at GSA with a focus on fair and reasonable pricing negotiations. To register for this members-only meeting, click here. Virtual attendance will also be available.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The evaluation can be simple, such as tenders which are price only, or complex which includes technical criteria, pricing and sometimes an interview or demonstration. The pricing evaluation follows the completion of all technical evaluation stages and is usually the easiest to evaluate. Fleet and Logistics Category Manager.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

The conference begins with remarks from Christine Harada , Senior Advisor in OMB’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), on the governmentwide Better Contracting Initiative , a four-pronged initiative to ensure that the Federal Government receives optimal terms and prices when purchasing goods and services.

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The Procurement School

JANUARY 22, 2024

Meetings should be multi-lateral to include representatives from operations, supply chain and senior management. Contract management cannot foresee all issues and therefore a defined resolution process is important. Fleet and Logistics Category Manager.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

Of all the expected benefits or functionalities, the most important ones are those attributed to public buyers and, in particular, the possibility of developing ‘category management’ insights (eg potential savings or benchmarking), systems of red flags in relation to corruption and collusion risks, and the automation of some tasks.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

8] is around leveraging data, to be able to help get the lower prices and better terms, and certainly is one of the first pillars around that. It’s not just about pricing, but also what are the terms and what are the conditions to be able to help provide that kind of context. It’s completely paid off for us in a big way.”

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Great Government Through Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2024

I described the Governmentwide Acquisition Strategy initiative led by the IT Vendor Management Office (ITVMO) to centralize engagement with critical Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and negotiate universal contract and process improvements to ensure that all agencies benefit from best-in-class terms and pricing as One Customer.

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