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How to Bid on Government Jobs: A Practical Guide

Select GCR

government is the largest purchaser in the world, significantly influencing the purchasing landscape. Government agency programs like the GSA Schedules provide long-term contracts, allowing businesses to sell commercial products and services at pre-negotiated prices, simplifying the purchasing process.

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Moving Up(front) with Upfront SaaS Payments

Great Government Through Technology

Due to the expertise, influence, and progressive-thinking of GSA’s Information Technology Category (ITC), we’ve worked to find a new approach to give agencies better solutions while ensuring cost-effectiveness and compliance with regulations.

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Retail Recovery: 4 Ways Procurement Can Unlock Savings and Add Value

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Here are four ways leading Procurement organizations can influence retail recovery in 2021 and beyond: 1. Yet in 2020, over two million people purchased goods online. They did what was necessary to remain operational, purchasing goods locally using their own credit cards and asking to be reimbursed. Rethink What’s Normal.

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What is Ethical Procurement and Why is it Important?

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

Some examples are: Illegal Supply Chain Practices This involves the purchase, whether knowingly or unknowingly, of products that have been produced by illegal or immoral means. Influence Peddling This is the practice of granting contracts to a certain supplier in return for compensation, such as special incentives or discounts.

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Balancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Procurement

The Procurement School

The latter groups have a strong influence on the priorities to be realized and the time frames for their delivery. We know that issuing a formal purchase order to buy a low-cost item and make a payment through accounts payable is not a good use of resources. Efficiency metrics examples 1.The The costs to manage the P-card program.

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Procurement Rising – The Time is Now

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Natacha Trehan, who leads the Purchasing Master’s degree at the University of Grenoble Alpes, will deliver a keynote providing further insights based on her experience working with and advising dozens of procurement organizations over the past decade. Effectively engaging executive leadership is critical, but insufficient.

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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

How to Crack a Nut

While the theoretical expectation could be that the public buyer would opt for a competitive dialogue or innovation partnership, as procedures targeted at this type of procurement, evidence of EU level practice shows that public buyers have a strong preference for competitive procedures with negotiations.