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

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

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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. And besides breaking even, you’ve got a really important mission.

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

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Getting exceptional rating is possible even if you encounter problems Contractors can still get an exceptional rating even after encountering progress — it’s more important how a company recovers from setbacks.

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Körber strengthens strategic and operational procurement with Ivalua and OptiBuy

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Therefore, efficient and value-driven processes and solutions are important for us, ” emphasises Michael Stietz, Senior Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer at Körber AG.

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Paris 2021 – EN – Taid Qazi

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Taid spent the last 3 years as Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) in Danske Bank, headquartered in Copenhagen (Denmark). One important element of the agenda has been to digitalize the Procurement function to benefit employees, suppliers and customers. Taid has, over the past years, been driving an efficiency agenda.

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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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Ivalua Further Grows its Procurement Solution Business in Canada

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An important aspect of our digital transformation journey is to provide our customers with an improved experience to maximize adoption and spend in support of corporate business performance targets,” said Lloyd Switzer, Chief Procurement Officer at TELUS. “To