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Is e-Procurement Free For Buyers?

Mercell

A few weeks ago, I had a great meeting and demo at a medium sized government agency. Now why do I think this is not in the best overall interest of procurement professionals? We all know public procurement can be made better and more efficient by automating quite a few aspects of your work. appeared first on Mercell.

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Striving for data excellence: How the Netherlands’ TenderNed is enabling procurement insights for government and public users

Open Contracting Partnership

To shed light on the value of having high-quality procurement data, we spoke to product owner Hans Minkes at TenderNed , the Dutch government’s online tendering system and one of the agencies furthest along in implementing eForms among the EU Member States. New demos are released every two weeks.

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Free vs. Paid Tender Portals: Which is Right for Your Business?

Tracker Intelligence

New opportunities in the public sector contracts and procurement process begin with finding the right tender opportunities. Public sector procurement information and contracts are available through both free and paid tender search engines. Your answer will depend on your business size, sector and procurement goals.

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Lessons from the Latest Forrester Wave Reports

ivalua

While some still argue the point and there is some commentary in the S2C Wave about niche solutions being pulled in when non-procurement stakeholders are involved, the overall message is clear – suites have prevailed. Procurement leaders today see the value of suites and the market has responded. The Winner Takes it All.

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The Keys to Successful Digital Transformation – You Must Spot the Differences

ivalua

As procurement faces an ever-growing list of objectives, digital transformation becomes ever more critical. No surprise then that there is hardly a procurement organization out there that has not started or is now contemplating digital transformation. The first is a drastically exaggerated sense of progress among procurement leaders.

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How to ride the Source to Pay Wave? 4 Lessons you can learn from Forrester

ivalua

While some still argue the point and there is some commentary in the S2C Wave about niche solutions being pulled in when non-procurement stakeholders are involved, the overall message is clear – suites have prevailed. Procurement leaders today see the value of suites and the market has responded. Lesson 2: The Winner Takes it All.

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The Ukrainian DREAM: Making wartime reconstruction digital and accountable

Open Contracting Partnership

Working with the Ukrainian government, especially the Ministry and Agency for Restoration as well as our friends in the RISE Ukraine Coalition , we were delighted to unveil the demo version of a Digital Reconstruction Ecosystem for Accountable Management (DREAM) in June, to lead on making the reconstruction digitally coordinated and accountable.