Mercell

APRIL 2, 2019

The 2 purchasers were highly interested and impressed in the solicitation and contract modules we showed and discussed. Now why do I think this is not in the best overall interest of procurement professionals? 4 reasons: The software company’s revenue for the free solution will come from suppliers, not from government agencies.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 27, 2024

The House Armed Services Committee’s initial goal was to make federal procurement less complex and more competitive through the use of commercial platforms. Collectively, these contracts represent a streamlined channel through which agencies can acquire commercial off the shelf products quickly.

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E-procurement Buyers Procurement Purchasing 109

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, we take a look back at what has been achieved over the last year in Public Procurement in Scotland. We asked members of the Public Procurement Group (PPG) to summarise their sectors 2024 achievements. They show that the 16 billion of public procurement spend, we generated 13.8 billion to Scottish GDP.

Public Procurement 49

Public Procurement Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement 49

ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

Ivalua builds momentum as technology platform of choice for public sector procurement. Nitor Partners, LLC, a strategic partner to Ivalua, will drive contract delivery by leveraging Ivalua’s technology platform. Nitor Partners, LLC, a strategic partner to Ivalua, will drive contract delivery by leveraging Ivalua’s technology platform.

E-procurement 49

E-procurement Procurement Eprocurement Supplier 49

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

A procure-to-pay solution offers a seamless process from point of order to payment. At Ivalua, we’ve seen how a Procure-to-Pay business process ensures sustained benefits through good buying practices, improves visibility and swifter issue resolution, and enables proactive management of suppliers. Reduced errors, fraud and risk.

Procurement 81

Procurement E-auction E-procurement Supplier 81

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes. Procurement authorities become the initiators,“ says Uwingeneye.

Public Procurement 80

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 80

GovCon Chamber of Commerce

AUGUST 5, 2024

Register in the HHS Vendor Supplier Portal to rise above your competition. The HHS Vendor Supplier Portal HHS awards approximately $30B to government contractors but there are 12 Operating Divisions in HHS and e ach procures their own goods and services independently. You need to get inside HHS!

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Government Government E-procurement Buyers 111

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On 13 November 2023, the UK Government published guidance setting out its ambitions for innovation procurement under the new Procurement Act 2023 (not yet in force, of which you can read a summary here). This further expands on the ambitions underpinning the Transforming Public Procurement project that started after Brexit.

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Procurement Innovation E-procurement Buyers 128

ivalua

MARCH 16, 2020

Redwood City/Warsaw/ Hamburg – March 17th, 2020 | Ivalua, a leading global provider of procurement management solutions, and OptiBuy, Ivalua’s long-standing implementation partner, announced their selection by Körber to enable a digital procurement transformation.

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Procurement E-procurement Supplier 19

American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. Public procurement is key to this endeavor because public institutions and state enterprises must procure vast amounts of goods, services, and works to do their jobs.

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Purchasing Sustainability E-procurement Procurement 97

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Open contracting approach: The open contracting risk monitoring platform Opentender.net empowers auditors to prioritize which procedures to investigate, gather evidence and respond to public complaints more effectively.

Corruption 90

Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. Results : Levels of green procurement uptake across Lithuanian public institutions have increased to 94% by value and 93% by total procedures as of 1 December 2023.

Procurement 89

Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

ivalua

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Redwood, CA, 20th December 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that Canada’s largest co-operative, Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), has gone live with its source-to-contract solution which includes a seamless integration to TealBook, the leading supplier data foundation.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But these businesses rarely take part in public procurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. It’s a “missed opportunity,” says Egghead Odewale, Director General of Ekiti State’s Bureau of Public Procurement (EKBPP).

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Bidding 89

Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Among the charges are allegations that Raytheon engaged in a bribery scheme to obtain contracts with the Qatari military and misrepresented its costs during contract negotiations with the U.S. This is the second largest government procurement fraud recovery under the Act according to the DOJ. Department of Defense (DOD).

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Negotiation Price Corruption E-procurement 106

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

A procure-to-pay solution offers a seamless process from point of order to payment. At Ivalua, we’ve seen how a Procure-to-Pay business process ensures sustained benefits through good buying practices, improves visibility and swifter issue resolution, and enables proactive management of suppliers. Reduced errors, fraud and risk.

Procurement 59

Procurement E-auction E-procurement Supplier 59

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. in 2020 to 59.7%

Corruption 78

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 78

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

South Korea has been a pioneer of green public procurement (GPP) since 2005 , when the Environment Ministry enacted legislation mandating government agencies to buy “green products” whenever possible. This allows organizations such as the Korea Institute of Procurement (KIP) to analyze the impact of the reforms.

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Green Public Procurement Public Procurement Procurement IT 78

ivalua

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Ivalua, a global leader in spend management , today announced that bol.com, the largest online retailer in the Netherlands and Belgium, has selected Ivalua’s solution to digitalize its indirect Source-to-Contract (S2C) processes. The project has been delivered in partnership with Accenture. About Ivalua. Learn more at www.ivalua.com.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We just completed two articles on the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA) [1] and, before that, two articles on Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) audits. 5] Based on inter-agency agreements, this program includes contracts awarded by certain non-DoD agencies as well as DoD contracts. [6]

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Negotiation Price Government Contracts IT 98

Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2025

In the UK, public procurement is essential to providing high-quality public services. Companies wishing to work with public sector organisations must know who the key players in public procurement are. These players administer public contracts, establish procurement regulations, and influence the procurement environment.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Chile’s public procurement agency, ChileCompra, created its “ Public Contracting Observatory ” service in 2012 to detect, prevent, and fix irregularities in government contracting procedures. In the beginning], looking at and monitoring the processes was a voluntary initiative,” says ChileCompra’s Director, Verónica Valle. “We

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Procurement E-procurement Tender Purchasing 62

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Public Procurement Glossary Public procurement can feel like a maze of unfamiliar terms and endless abbreviations. Thats exactly why this Public procurement glossary existsto make things simple. No fluff, no confusing jargonjust procurement terms and abbreviations explained in a way that actually makes sense.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate’s National Collaborative Procurement Division (NCPD) administers the Scottish national collaborative frameworks and contracts for the whole of the Scottish Public Sector, as well as agreements that can be accessed by central government organisations of the Scottish Government.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Viparis has chosen Ivalua and CKS to equip its Procurement department with a software suite that meets the challenges of an exceptional deadline for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and will help sustain the Group’s growth. The solution implemented is based on a “pre-configuration” that combines the reference functionalities of e-Procurement.

E-procurement 53

E-procurement Procurement Tender Supplier 53

ivalua

APRIL 6, 2021

A Guide to Contract Management Tools and Processes including a guide to the key steps of the Contract Lifecycle Management Process and to the benefits that using Contract Management software can bring to your Procurement processes. An Overview of Contract Lifecycle Management.

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Management Contract Contract Management Supply Chain 52

Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Competition in public procurement is not limited to financial competition; it is a key source of innovation and guarantees the fair allocation of public contracts. This analysis will explore the main NAO findings, look at their wider significance and propose steps to reinvigorate competition in government procurement.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Tender Framework Agreement 52

ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repositor. A specific application for Procurement involves contract analysis.

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Data Management Contract E-procurement 60

Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2025

New opportunities in the public sector contracts and procurement process begin with finding the right tender opportunities. Thousands of contract notices are posted every week on different platforms in the UK. Public sector procurement information and contracts are available through both free and paid tender search engines.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

That’s the question we set out to answer in our recent panel discussion with Procurement and Supply Chain experts. They may not consider potential issues of integrations, supplier onboarding, supply chain data management, change management and system optimization, all of which add to complexity and costs.

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Supply Chain Management Total Cost of Ownership Warehouse 88

ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repository. One of the initial use cases the team is tackling is for contract analysis. .

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Challenge: In Ukraine, a lack of machine-readable data about procurement appeals made it difficult for government suppliers to defend their rights and interests. In 2023, Ukraine awarded 270,000 public contracts through competitive procedures , worth 555 billion UAH ($15.2 of all procurement appeals in Ukraine.

Procurement 67

Procurement Tender Buyers Public Procurement 67

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. ​ It is a crucial process for organizations that are looking to streamline their procurement activities, better manage spend and suppliers and increase operational efficiency. What is Source-to-Pay?

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Supplier E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 6, 2023

By the same regulatory logic, this technique will be a conveyor belt for the shortcomings of the EU AI Act, which will be embedded in public contracts using the clauses. The model AI clauses have been developed by reference to the (future) obligations arising from the EU AI Act currently under advanced stages of negotiation.

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aptac

JUNE 22, 2018

For disaster response contracting – fundamentals and follow-through are key In the aftermath of a disaster, potential contractors swarm to the site hoping for a piece of the clean-up and recover effort. At the time of a disaster, they may initially rely upon contracts already in place. What is a small contractor to do?

Contract 52

Contract E-catalogue E-procurement Buyers 52

ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

Invoice to Pay is a request for payment by a supplier, and technology helps to make this simple, fast and more efficient for the Supplier and the Accounts Payable team. At each step of this Procurement process, data is gathered, suppliers are onboarded, and deliveries are accepted. Invoice to Pay from Ivalua.

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Supplier E-procurement Accountability Networking 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The second, authored by Andrew Bartels and published on December 18, is The Forrester Wave™: Source-To-Contract Suites, Q4 2019. It covers spend analysis, sourcing, contract management and supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), similar in scope to Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Application Suites Magic Quadrant.

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