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State Department wants to see ‘a lot more’ self-assessments from vendors

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Dion Turner, the supervisory contracting officer at the Interior Department, said while CPARS can be somewhat subjective based on the contracting officer, documentation is key to ensuring fair evaluations. What’s not subjective is your documentation and what you did performing under that contract.

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

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As environmental issues have become more important to governments and administrations within the last few decades, it has gotten easier to identify ways to leverage purchasing to support these goals. This factor might be included as an important score in the overall evaluation rating scale. Matching devices to needs.

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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

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In August 2020 Gartner published this report “4 Tactics Procurement Can Use to Sustain Influence as Economic Conditions Improve” This blog summarizes the key points of the report which you can read in full, here. Procurement Teams Step-up. A Blueprint for Demonstrating the value of Strategic Procurement.

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Procurement: The Startup’s New Best Friend?

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Indeed, to build relevant partnerships, Procurement must grasp its company’s challenges and its future areas of development, in a few words, get a much broader view beyond the often narrow procurement lens. Here are a few good practices already implemented by some best-in-class Procurement departments: – open a gate for startups.

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Procurement Innovation Lab to tackle ‘big A’ acquisition at DHS

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Scott Simpson, the digital transformation lead for the Procurement Innovation Lab at DHS, said the next chapter is all about improving the “big A” acquisition process. Scott Simpson is the digital transformation lead in the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer at DHS. “We’re

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6 Lessons for Procurement Digitization

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Chief Procurement Officers stand at the precipice of change and taking the next steps towards Procurement innovation is going to require strong leadership and expert guidance. We won’t force you to choose either supplier management, or source to contract, or procure to pay. Woodrow Wilson.

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AI effort to improve contractor performance ratings stalls

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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.