Art of Procurement
JANUARY 26, 2023
In this week’s podcast, Philip Ideson interviews Vytas Sliesoraitis, a procurement leader turned Ironman competitor. Click here to listen. Vytas. The post Three Key Lessons from a True Procurement Ironman appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2023
While federal agencies face hurdles to digital transformation and using technology to improve processes and the citizen experience, they are making steady progress. Modernizing legacy, monolithic applications that have resided on on-premises hardware and adapting them to more modern, cloud-based environments is an ongoing project across government. Modernized apps run faster and more efficiently and are also less costly to operate.
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GovLoop
JANUARY 30, 2023
If you’re looking for an edge to help you get a new job, consider this: What’s the most significant problem you’ve solved in the workplace? And this: How do you explain new topics to coworkers unfamiliar with them? Or this: Describe a situation where results went against expectations. How did you adapt to this challenge? Those are examples of questions that employers might use to deeper an understanding of a job candidate’s fit for a job, according to a blog pos t at Inde
ivalua
JANUARY 31, 2023
Ivalua’s new Environmental Impact Center empowers Procurement and Supply Chain teams with reliable and actionable insight to reduce Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. EIC’s Unique Capabilities: Ensure transparent carbon emissions baseline based on reliable emissions data Identify and prioritize emissions reduction opportunities Monitor and manage emissions at the product level Redwood City, CA – 31 January, 2023 – Ivalua , a global leader in Cloud Spend Management Solutions , announced the
Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader
Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,
Bonfire
JANUARY 25, 2023
So you want to create a vendor diversity program. Where do you start? What pieces should you have in place for success? The most common thing preventing procurement teams from creating these initiatives is not having a starting point. Recently, we had the pleasure of sitting down with DeNita Lacking-Quinn (Supervisor at City of Dallas Procurement Services) and André McEwing (Supplier Diversity Manager at Tarrant County College) during our TexasTalk event to get their tips on creating an effectiv
The Procurement School
JANUARY 12, 2023
Author: Liz Busch Do you feel that your organization may not be strategically procuring the goods, services and construction it needs? You’re not alone! Some organizations manage procurement reactively, where each acquisition is a stand-alone procurement once a need is identified which can ultimately result in multiple separate procurements for similar commodities.
Public Procurement Central brings together the best content for public procurement professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 18, 2023
The Department of Veterans Affairs is “playing catch-up” to agencies such as the National Institutes of Health in automating its acquisition processes, according to its chief acquisition officer. Speaking Tuesday at the AFCEA Bethesda 15th Annual Health IT Event, Michael Parrish said the VA’s supply chain modernization effort is focused on using technologies like machine learning (ML) to ensure order management has full enterprise visibility.
GovLoop
JANUARY 13, 2023
By Greg Godbout, Chief Growth Officer, Fearless and Adam Furtado, former Platform Chief, Kessel Run, Air Force. Digital services are everywhere. They improve experiences for customers in every facet of industry. Put simply, digital services are services in the digital era. Users expect their services to be modern, digital, instant and customized. Unfortunately, government services too often fall short of these modern expectations.
ivalua
JANUARY 13, 2023
Public Procurement: Building Business Cases and Driving Momentum. For the Government, supplier diversity programs are something procurement professionals in the United States (US) have accepted as a key element to their procurement success. Since their inception more than 50 years ago, supplier diversity programs have spread beyond public procurements.
Oxford College of Procurement and Supply
JANUARY 11, 2023
A company’s performance is heavily impacted by its supplier’s operations. Businesses can be negatively impacted when a supplier fails to meet the standard required. As such, it’s important to act quickly when faced with poor supplier performance, putting adequate processes in place to resolve the issue promptly and efficiently. In this post, we will explore some of the ways to improve poor supplier performance and protect your business from the potential cost of this.
Government Procurement Solutions
JANUARY 8, 2023
by Irene Morales -- The stock market is hitting 40 year record lows. The housing market is quickly declining. The national debt is up to 31 trillion and counting. It is a trying time for business owners. How are you rece.
Art of Procurement
JANUARY 12, 2023
In this week’s episode of the Art of Procurement podcast, Philip Ideson welcomed the first guest of 2023: Stephane Morel, The post Applying Category Management to the Challenges of a New Age appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 31, 2023
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently released a cybersecurity modernization action plan, expressing an urgency to enhance defenses to mitigate growing threats that agencies have faced in the past few years. The FDA alone has reported a 457 percent increase in reconnaissance activities, denial of service, attempted exploitation and other cyber incidents against IT infrastructure during the pandemic.
GovLoop
JANUARY 27, 2023
“If you can’t hire enough experienced security professionals, why not outsource routine, repetitive tasks? Or activities that require special skills? Or jobs that someone else has figured out how to automate?” – 2022 Cyberthreat Defense Report An agency’s limited budget or staff shortages doesn’t negate their need for strong cybersecurity. But how can your IT staff take the precautions they need to secure your data while facing those budgetary and staffing challenges?
ivalua
JANUARY 8, 2023
What Lieferkettengesetz Means for Procurement? By Jan-Hendrik Sohn. The German Supply Chain Act, or Lieferkettengesetz, is a new piece of legislation that came into effect January 2023 with an extended remit from January 1, 2024. The act was established to address issues of sustainability and ethical conduct in global supply chains, and has significant implications for companies and procurement organizations operating in Germany.
Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts
JANUARY 6, 2023
Small business government contractors are (or should be) aware of the SBA’s affiliation rules. In a nutshell, the rules set the standard for whether/when another business controls – or has the ability to control – the small business. Affiliation is a huge red flag for small business contractors. A finding of affiliation can lead to lost contracting opportunities and the inability to access the set-aside contract marketplace.
PNWC's Government Contracting Update
JANUARY 5, 2023
For 2023, the standard mileage rate for business will increase to 65.5 cents per mile The rate for medical and moving will also increase to 22 cents per mile while the rate for charitable purposes remain at 14 cents per mile.
Art of Procurement
JANUARY 10, 2023
The user experience associated with procurement technology has come a long way. I’m dating myself here, but procurement used to. The post Procurement, meet no-code development appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 5, 2023
It’s already been more than two years since the pandemic forced a dramatic shift in organizations’ workplace operations, and federal agencies were no exception. The rapid adoption of remote work in 2020 led agencies to permanently change the way they operate, with remote and hybrid working environments now here to stay. Still, private and public organizations continue to try to figure out exactly how to structure their new work environments if some form of remote work is truly permanent.
GovLoop
JANUARY 17, 2023
Tasked to do more with less, government agencies are looking for ways to lighten the burden on overloaded IT teams while also elevating the level of citizen service. Automation offers a way forward. By putting machines in charge of repetitive or tedious tasks, agencies can elevate employee satisfaction, contain the costs of their IT efforts and simultaneously meet their mission more effectively.
ivalua
JANUARY 30, 2023
Why should Procurement own Scope 3 Emissions? The answer is simple- suppliers and spend. For most procurement (and supply chain) professionals, the topic of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions should be coming at you from every direction. Most organizations are familiar with Scope 1 and 2, as they are direct and indirect emissions from your own operations.
GovSpend
JANUARY 4, 2023
It is January 4th, 2023 – the start of the 2023 calendar year, but also the start of the Q2 of the Federal Government Fiscal Year 2023. It is also the time for us to get understand the federal contracts awarded by the federal government in FY 22, now that the Dept of Defense numbers are made public. (Note: DoD awards are subject to a 90-day delay before being made public) The Congressional Budget Office, in its summary for fiscal year 2022, states the total outlay at $6,272B with a de
NIH NITAAC
JANUARY 2, 2023
On behalf of the team at NITAAC, let me be the first to wish you a Happy New Year! As we usher in 2023, I know there is a lot of anticipation about the Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 4 (CIO-SP4) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC). CIO-SP4 has been in the news lately, but unfortunately much of the press has covered the procurement with some incorrect information.
Art of Procurement
JANUARY 16, 2023
Do fish know they are wet? Every creature on earth has a natural habitat. Procurement’s habitat is digital. And yet, The post [Pod] Digital Outcomes 2023 Agenda Reveal w/ Kelly Barner and Philip Ideson appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 6, 2023
DevSecOps is a practice where security is baked into the software and service development of an agency from the beginning. Adopting such a practice takes time and effort, so is it worth it for federal agencies to undertake this task? With common government pain points in my mind, DevSecOps could be the smart way forward. An IBM survey shows that governments identify security as the biggest reason to modernize their IT infrastructures.
GovLoop
JANUARY 3, 2023
There was a time when government paid little attention to what we now call “customer experience” (CX). Agencies had their rules, and constituents had to navigate them to get the services they needed. The Department of Veterans Affairs was no different. But in 2015, VA set up the Veterans Experience Office to begin to address the way veterans’ needs were met.
ivalua
JANUARY 30, 2023
Why should Procurement own Scope 3 Emissions? The answer is simple- suppliers and spend. For most procurement (and supply chain) professionals, the topic of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions should be coming at you from every direction. Most organizations are familiar with Scope 1 and 2, as they are direct and indirect emissions from your own operations.
GovSpend
JANUARY 4, 2023
It is January 4th, 2023 – the start of the 2023 calendar year, but also the start of the Q2 of the Federal Government Fiscal Year 2023. It is also the time for us to get understand the federal contracts awarded by the federal government in FY 22, now that the Dept of Defense numbers are made public. (Note: DoD awards are subject to a 90-day delay before being made public) The Congressional Budget Office, in its summary for fiscal year 2022, states the total outlay at $6,272B with a de
Key Solutions
JANUARY 25, 2023
Like an Olympic athlete who must train, practice, and then qualify to compete, succeeding in the federal market also requires long-term preparation and planning.
Art of Procurement
JANUARY 17, 2023
According to a 2020 study by BCG, 70 percent of transformation projects fall short of expectations. This means that transformations. The post Participating in Procurement and Other Extreme Sports appeared first on Art of Procurement.
FedTech Magazine
JANUARY 13, 2023
IT solutions are always evolving, and an agency’s ideal infrastructure in a given year might look different the next. What we are seeing now among agencies is the adoption of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Over the past few years, federal agencies in particular have shifted from the cloud back to HCI. Faced with cloud computing’s challenges (costs, limitations, lack of control of the IT environment), the scalability and control of HCI is more suitable for their needs.
GovLoop
JANUARY 31, 2023
It can be difficult to find the sweet spot between being accommodating and bending your boundaries too much in the workplace. During the New Supervisors in Gov Virtual Networking Event, “How to Set Boundaries for Yourself and Your Team,” on Jan. 30, U.S. Federal Government employee Sarah Moffat shared insight on how to respectfully, but firmly, draw lines between your personal and professional lives.
The Contractor's Perspective
JANUARY 12, 2023
Section 822 of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, Public Law No. 117-7776 (Dec. 23, 2022) provides new authority for some defense contractors and subcontractors to obtain price increases that address the impacts of inflation. The new authority is welcome relief for contractors and subcontractors holding fixed-price defense contracts, which typically do not allow a price increase due solely to inflation.
LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement
JANUARY 6, 2023
Small business government contractors are (or should be) aware of the SBA’s affiliation rules. In a nutshell, the rules set the standard for whether/when another business controls – or has the ability to control – the small business. Affiliation is a huge red flag for small business contractors. A finding of affiliation can lead to lost contracting opportunities and the inability to access the set-aside contract marketplace.
WIFCON: Government Contracts
JANUARY 25, 2023
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Art of Procurement
JANUARY 20, 2023
Procurement 6 is a new short podcast from Art of Procurement that will be published in the Art of Procurement. The post [Pod] Procurement 6 – January 20th, 2023 appeared first on Art of Procurement.
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