The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In his article “ The Future of Public Infrastructure is Digital “, Bill Gates envisions a world where infrastructure is smarter, more efficient, and digitally integrated. However, one critical element often overlooked in these discussions is public procurement.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2025

In todays complex procurement landscape, creating comprehensive and accurate statements of work scopes can present a challenge for university procurement teams. Without standardized tools, this process creates additional workload burden and potential delays in the procurement process. The scale of this challenge is substantial.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and budget-conscious public sector environment, efficient procurement practices are more crucial than ever. Let’s explore what cooperative purchasing entails and delve into the myriad ways it can revolutionize public sector procurement. What is Cooperative Purchasing?

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 4, 2025

Improving public procurement, which accounts for one in every three dollars spent by governments, is one of the core ways countries can do more with the same – or less. As theOpen Contracting Partnership, we support transformational procurement reforms in over 50 countries. How can the Bank leverage this opportunity?

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When it comes to procurement, having a clear, strategic approach is key to delivering value to your organization. Whether you’re in education, government, nonprofit or the private sector, procurement can be a powerful tool for maximizing savings, streamlining operations, and ensuring compliance.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 31, 2025

Today marks the publication of the updated Scottish Government Procurement Strategy 2025-2028. It is closely aligned with the road map and vision for public procurement as laid out within the Public Procurement Strategy for Scotland and sets out how we will deliver on our priorities and maximise the impact of our procurement spend.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 15, 2025

Federated Wireless has secured a contract valued at over $6 million to deploy its private 5G network to the Marine Corps Logistics Commands logistics hub in Albany, Georgia. The company said Tuesday that work on the 42-month sustainment contract already started in November.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM). What is Smart Public Procurement?

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Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 9, 2025

But until recently, like many governments, New York City relied on antiquated systems and lacked the tools to take full advantage of its procurement data. The team at the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS) have a vision for a more open, transparent and inclusive procurement process. The other part of it is people.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Without wanting to spoil too much in advance the gist of my talk will be a critique of the current prevailing view that we are moving public procurement from having rules on how we buy to what/why we buy instead. There will be, however, a fairly big exception at the end.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s no secret that procurement professionals nationwide are struggling with budgets, bandwidth and staffing shortages. The procurement team from Dorchester County, South Carolina is a successful example of what you can also achieve with a cooperative strategy.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Bridging the digital divide: Implementing open procurement for effective digital transformation Digital transformation is arguably the most important administrative undertaking of governments around the world. Access to technical expertise Problem: Lack of specific technical expertise for informed choices within government.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Scorpene submarine affair and the more recent Littoral Combat Ship scandal centered around mismanagement within defence procurement. Among the reform areas identified was the country’s public procurement system. But at the heart of this transformation lies the principle of transparency.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 4, 2024

From there, plans would be developed to better manage the procurement of software and eliminate deficiencies and other bad acquisition practices. on Wednesday spoke to the bill’s good governance bona fides, saying it would “reduce wasteful spending and improve government efficiency.” James Comer, R-Ky., Jamie Raskin, D-Md.,

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 21, 2024

A top technology trade group is nudging the leadership of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Oversight and Accountability committees to advance a bill aimed at modernizing the federal procurement process. The FIT Procurement Act, introduced last month by Rep. In a letter sent Monday to Sens.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

However, in practice, federal agencies are often directed toward larger procurement platforms, which can introduce complexities that hinder small businesses. While these platforms were developed to simplify procurement, they frequently favor larger, established vendors, making it difficult for small businesses to compete on equal footing.

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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.

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The Procurement School

JULY 16, 2024

Contract Management is often thought to be the last step in the Procurement life cycle but instead it is both the beginning and end of the procurement cycle and it provides a constant feedback loop. The following article discusses the various steps of contract management and its role in procurement efficiency.

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Redstone Government Consulting

JULY 29, 2024

Looking to streamline your procurement process? Now is the perfect time to begin reviewing your complete source to pay process to increase efficiency, productivity, integration, and revenue.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Polk County, Texas, home to approximately 53,000 residents, established a dedicated Purchasing and Procurement Department in 2023, spearheaded by Nacole Reeks, the county’s Purchasing and Procurement Coordinator. However, despite this progress, Polk County continued to grapple with significant inefficiencies in its procurement process.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It all starts with procurement. Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. Their comments are all published on the site, along with any responses from the procuring entity.

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Telles.eu

MAY 11, 2023

It is unsurprising Tirole mentions procurement as a problematic area as well. In his paper Tirole raises three main problems relevant for public procurement. These will now be looked into in turns on their relevance for public procurement. One final note on Tirole's suggestion on efficiency. Sounds familiar?

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Telles.eu

OCTOBER 9, 2023

After the first two entries ( here and here ) of a more general nature, this one will be focused on contract specific critiques, in particular food procurement (contract types 9 and 15). It is defined in the Annex as a 'supply made via direct purchases from the producer or through one single intermediary.'

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Procurement analytics is quickly becoming a core practice for efficient operations and effective sourcing in today’s rapidly changing business environment. Data-driven decision-making enables procurement teams to improve performance and align with wider organisational goals including corporate social responsibility and risk management.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

A publicly available tool, ACT Ai aggregates data on over 31 million public procurement projects, linking them with company registration data to detect potential fraud and corruption. Further digging revealed the scope of this procurement: a staggering 6,773 lamp posts had been bought in nine transactions totaling 673 million Baht (US$18.2

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Department of the Navy’s third attempt to modernize its contract writing system and overall electronic procurement system is on shaky ground. That hubris reared its ugly head most recently in June when the Navy retracted a technical assessment that found shortcomings in the Navy’s electronic procurement system (ePS) program.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 17, 2025

The General Services Administration and Microsoft reached an agreement under the Governmentwide Microsoft Acquisition Strategy (GMAS) to streamline IT acquisition processes and enhance cybersecurity standards for agencies procuring the companys services, the GSA announced Wednesday.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This story could be mistaken for several recent stories regarding the misuse of a procurement purchasing card (p-card). Convenient, efficient and concealable P-cards offer a quick and efficient alternative to the typically tedious and lengthy purchase order process for certain purchases.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It’s moving to a category management approach, organizing procurement around the primary categories of spend. In addition, it’s launching a lifecycle management approach to help streamline and standardize procurement workflows. But the missing ingredient for us really, and for any agency, is aggregating the demand signal.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Blog » Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium June 26, 2023 | | Thought Leadership by Eloise Barnum As businesses navigate through supply chain disruptions, high inflation, and sustainability initiatives, procurement, and supplier management has taken center stage in driving change.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Introduction This article is based on the review of standard bidding documents from several organizations including the World Bank , Millennium Challenge Corporation , the Public Procurement and Concession Commission of the Republic of Liberia , and Public Procurement Authority of Ghana.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. I have had opportunities to support more than 60 countries across the globe in reviewing and advising their e-procurement (e-GP) initiatives.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 24, 2024

Data management tools, like pricing algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), are playing an ever-larger role in Federal procurement as agencies look to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and improve contract outcomes. Such access is in the public interest because it promotes efficiency and realism.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] 3 Powerful Ways Procurement will Drive the 2030 Saudi Vision Transformation May 30, 2023 | | Procurement Strategy by Sara Omer What is the Saudi Vision 2030 Program? Procurement and supply chain teams will play a crucial role in making this vision a reality.

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Public Procurement Intl

AUGUST 23, 2024

On August 22, 2024, Chris Yukins and Tom Daley (DLA Piper) presented to the International Research Study of Public Procurement (IRSPP) group’s tenth workshop , in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of the NIGP (Institute for Government Procurement) annual conference.

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ivalua

JUNE 14, 2023

We recommend leveraging these workstreams, based on Gartner’s 4 Workstreams for Successful Implementation of Any Procurement Application to maximize the impact of your next large-scale procurement implementation: 1. Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Get Ready for Success!

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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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