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Bindi Patel Named Contracts & Procurement VP, Corporate Risk Officer at Ensco; Jeff Stevens Quoted

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Bindi Patel, a more than two-decade consulting industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of contracts and procurement and corporate risk officer at Springfield, Virginia-based defense and space manufacturing company Ensco.

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Why most government contractors are feeling confident about 2025

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I think most government contractors have contracts that are negotiated and the prices are negotiated upfront, and then they have to adhere to those prices over the course of the entire five-to-10 year contract. Tom Temin And for contractors on the manufacturing side that make things, platforms and so forth.

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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

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This could include negotiating more favorable terms with suppliers or renegotiating existing contracts to ensure that prices remain competitive. This helps ensure your contracts remain favorable and that all stakeholders comply with the negotiated terms. Doug has a B.S.

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Healthcare Procurement: Why the Healthcare Industry Needs to Modernize Supply Chains to Meet Today’s Challenges

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Healthcare Procurement: Why the Healthcare Industry Needs to Modernize Supply Chains to Meet Today’s Challenges. In return for a relatively modest membership fee, which typically ranges from 1 to 3 percent of their negotiated contract size, hospitals and healthcare systems using GPOs save an average of 13.1

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Procurement Rising: The Silent Inflation Tax on Manufacturers

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Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Procurement Rising: The Silent Inflation Tax on Manufacturers February 27, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley Last year, the Consumer Price Index was the highest it has been in four decades, making inflation one of the most concerning macroeconomic factors facing the business world today.

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How exporting weapons becomes risky for contractors who make the exports

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Manufacturers of platforms and ammunition must deal with a list of regulatory and legal challenges. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And we think of the defense industrial base has strained in terms of capacity to manufacture what’s needed around the world and, you know, missile systems and ammunition and so forth. supply chains.

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Carahsoft raid may be a wake up call for the reseller market

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Former federal executives and industry experts said it may be time to rethink the IT value added reseller (ITVAR) approach as the FBI and DCIS raid shined a brighter light on supply chain risks that most vendors and agencies generally glossed over until now. I think the government and industry are asking that question now.