Bonfire

MAY 17, 2022

Whether the motivation is new legislation or funding requirements, increasing competition in your RFP responses, or supporting your community — there’s no wrong reason for public sector procurement teams to foster more diversity in their vendor pool. Content and communications (educational sessions, email newsletters).

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Supplier Education Public Private Partnership Procurement Team 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While this bill is transformative for states, cities, counties, utilities, and education, there are massive hurdles that must be addressed before any initiatives are implemented. There will be unique challenges public procurement teams will need to address to ensure the bill delivers on its full promise. A Path Forward.

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2025

To ensure that public sector procurement delivers high-quality public services, it promotes strategic procurement operations and supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By consolidating purchasing power, it ensures the healthcare system obtains better value from suppliers while adhering to procurement regulations.

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Bonfire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We hosted our first ever Bonfire Procurement Awards reception to honor our clients who are moving mountains in their organizations. Then in our case study session, we heard how public procurement teams are using Bonfire to drive their organizations forward and positively impact the communities they serve.

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Public Procurement Procurement Team Procurement Bidding 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Lifted from their latest webinar, Jean-Baptiste Anne from Amazon Business and Vishal Patel from Ivalua offer insights into tail spend management programs and the ROI these programs can generate for procurement teams. . Through this, Procurement will either learn to improve buying channels or educate the user on the right process.

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Buyers Supplier Purchasing Procurement Team 52

American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

In addition, there are several comprehensive guides to green purchasing available online, including from the Nation Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO). Pursuing a sustainability plan When a procurement team is committed to green purchasing, there are a variety of strategies that can be considered.

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VWV

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

However, the administrative burden on university procurement teams is unlikely to go away. For example, universities must have regard to the whole raft of procurement guidance coming from the Cabinet Office in the form of procurement policy notices (PPNs).

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ivalua

APRIL 17, 2023

A frequent thought leadership contributor for the Ivalua Blog, Jarrod has worked across multiple industries, including higher education, public sector, retail, manufacturing, and engineered products.

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Public Procurement Procurement Transparency Supplier 52

Bonfire

JANUARY 25, 2023

The most common thing preventing procurement teams from creating these initiatives is not having a starting point. One way DeNita’s team has addressed a gap is translating vendor guides into multiple languages, opening up the process to more ethnic groups. So you want to create a vendor diversity program. Where do you start?

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Bidding Eprocurement Procurement Leadership 52

ivalua

JUNE 7, 2021

With businesses’ focus shifting from damage control to restoring growth, innovative CPOs are encouraging their procurement teams to prioritise supplier innovation and revenue growth opportunities. . Procurement’s role and status have been on an upward trajectory for many years, accelerating during the Covid-19 crisis.

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Procurement Supplier Collaboration Price 52

Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A really good regional event and an opportunity to connect buyers and procurement teams from across the public and private sector as they prepare for upcoming contract opportunities. We’ve seen a number of developments across construction procurement policy recently with the publication of three new construction policy notes.

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Procurement Buyers Public Procurement Supplier 57

ivalua

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As organizations look beyond the panic and shocks created by Covid-19, procurement leaders must show that they can contribute to restoring growth and supporting a broader list of objectives. The reality is that too few procurement teams have experience here. A core goal of Ivalua’s in 2021 is to help more leaders do so.

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Procurement Supplier Price Leadership 52

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Clearly, AI’s rapidly developing capabilities promise to revolutionize everything from healthcare and education to defense and intelligence. AI has come to dominate IT conversations much like, and more so in many regards, than cloud computing conversations did nearly two decades ago. They’re also making inroads in the workplace.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Social Value Social value in procurement can be an excellent way to further promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in different domains. Procurement gives charities and other socially oriented organisations an opportunity to implement educational or health programs for the youth.

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Public Procurement Procurement Supply Chain Tender 52

The Procurement School

MARCH 22, 2024

My procurement education had not exposed me to indigenous ways of knowing and doing, as procurement traditionally stems from European cultural structures. This prompted the procurement team to dig deeper and figure out what that barrier was, and why it was difficult for these businesses to get bonding.

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Procurement Public Procurement Collaboration Bidding 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This lets the procurement team focus on improving the supply base instead of managing a scoring model. . This information can be worked into strategies for the categories, develop standards, educate the suppliers, implement corrective actions / improvements.

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Supplier Sustainability Data Integration 52

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

By working closely with your technology and legal and policy teams, procurement teams can make sure that suppliers are aligned with their organization’s responsible AI principles and requirements, positioning themselves as valued business partners.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The NDAA includes significant technology-related provisions including mandates to streamline the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), define and plan the DoD AI workforce, and strengthen the Departments AI education strategy. The FY25 NDAA also directs DoD to investigate the potential creation of a U.S. military service focused on cyber.

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