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Tab for access: How New York City is increasing participation and access to government contracts

Open Contracting Partnership

For example, over the last several years, the City has transitioned to PASSPort , an end-to-end online procurement system that creates additional transparency and efficiencies in the procurement process. We sat down with City Chief Procurement Officer and MOCS Director Lisa Flores, to learn more about their work.

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Cal Poly seeks to transform procurement process with generative AI-powered scope of work generation

AWS Public Sector

Scope Builder can help us transform our procurement process, said Darin Mathews, Cal Polys chief procurement officer. This allows our team to focus on strategic procurement decisions rather than document formatting.

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After a career in procurement, she’s selling to the government

Federal News Network

A long-time federal career procurement executive has a new job. Soraya Correa was chief procurement officer at the Homeland Security Department, among other things, and retired as a member of the Senior Executive Service. She’s the CEO of a contractor. But not just any contractor but a non-profit with a purpose.

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Federal Long Range Acquisition Forecasts (LRAF) - FY2024

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Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) Air National Guard (ANG) US Air Force (USAF) US Army Army Material Command (AMC) Army Contracting Command (ACC) Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) Mission & Installation Contracting Command (MICC) PEO Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) U.S.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

“When it comes to sustainability, governments are asking how to get there as fast as the public expects,” says Sergio Paneque, a Center for Digital Government (CDG) senior fellow and former chief procurement officer for the state of New York.

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IWD 2020 Celebrating Women in Procurement

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Active mentorship and targeted recruiting programs are needed to ensure that the diversity of procurement talent matches the range of our results. . Sylvie NOËL. Make the decision to reinvent!” .

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AI effort to improve contractor performance ratings stalls

Federal News Network

Polly Hall, the DHS senior advisor to the chief procurement officer and former executive director of the Procurement Innovation Lab, which ran the AI CPARs pilot, said the test proved out the capability of using this technology to identify relevant records and information.