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? Look for trends, where the organization is buying similar commodities through independent solicitations or direct awards and entering discrete contracts and purchase orders for each.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When procurement is treated as a back office function rather than a strategic one, the technology governments purchase ends up being functional but difficult for people to use, and often expensive to manage and service long term. Governments also depend on technology to manage the procurement process itself. In the U.S.,

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Public Procurement Procurement Balance Quality 73

Mercell

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Negometrix will deliver the software solution, that will be used by all public authorities such as cities, provinces, ministries, hospitals, utilities and others for purchasing goods, services and supplies completely electronically.

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The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Needs analysis ensures an accurate understanding of the goods / services being procured. Areas to consider include objectives, background, scope, constraints, deliverables, timing, approvals, policy and legislative requirements, evaluation criteria and methodology and contract management including KPIs.

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Procurement Bidder Procurement Strategies Evaluation 52

The Procurement School

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When thinking about these questions, consider three different types of vendor relationships: (a) vendors wanting to do business with government; (b) vendors participating in a solicitation process; and (c) contractors providing goods, services or construction to government. The solicitation is structured to meet current needs.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis. What does Procurement mean?

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

To ensure bidders are qualified to provide the required good / service it is recommended they score at or above a minimum technical threshold to proceed to the next evaluation stage. Once the Procurement Journey is completed the procurement is passed to the contract manager for execution. Fleet and Logistics Category Manager.

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The Procurement School

JANUARY 22, 2024

Rated Criteria The technical evaluation criteria needs to align clearly with the scope / performance requirements of the good / service being procured. Once a procurement is awarded it moves to contract management whose primary functions are implementation, compliance and issue management.

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The Procurement School

JUNE 25, 2023

demand aggregation As one strategy for meeting this obligation, both sectors look for opportunities for volume buying or ‘demand aggregation’ wherever possible and often approach strategic sourcing from a category management perspective. where do public sector procurement rules come from?

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VWV

MAY 19, 2021

One of the challenges over the last twelve months has been managing procurement activity in the face of an ongoing pandemic. A version of this article originally appeared in the London Universities Purchasing Consortium Linked Magazine Spring 2021. How Have These Rules Been Applied In Practice?

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Acquisition Policy and Management Several provisions in the NDAA require modifications to DoD’s internal processes. Section 1523 tasks the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer with providing the digital infrastructure and procurement vehicles necessary to manage data assets and analytics capabilities.

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Procurement Notes

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

11] If a Contracting Officer is uncertain as to the proper interest rate to apply, assistance may be obtained from the Department of Treasurys Financial Management Service (FMS) at 1-800-266-9667. [12] 12] The Bureau of the Fiscal Service also offers an online PPA interest calculatoravailable here. [13] 107-117, Div. 7, 070209.

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Many public reports have stalled or been rejected by LKPP because the evidence was considered incomplete, according to ICW Knowledge Management Division Coordinator Wana Alamsyah. ICW used this approach to identify alleged fraud in a purchase of curtains for the residence of parliamentarians [link to case below] in 2022.

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