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Job Opening: Purchasing Manager

Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

Essential Functions of the Job: Recommends, implements and maintains City purchasing systems for maximum efficiency and to achieve optimum life-cycle cost for all goods and services purchased. Oversees the analysis of cost, performance, quality, service and delivery.

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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

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Relatedly, it will be difficult to administer such tenderer screening to systems through the creation of lists of approved contractors or third-party certification (or equivalent mechanisms, such as dynamic purchasing systems administered by a central purchasing body, or quality assurance certification).

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

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The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved. As of 2025, the system could establish links with additional external data sources ’ (at 2).