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International Public Procurement Workshop 2025 – South Korea

Public Procurement Intl

From 5-7 March 2025, South Korea’s Public Procurement Service hosted an extraordinary conference featuring centralized purchasing agencies from over half of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member states, from North America, Europe and Asia.

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Job Opening: Purchasing Manager

Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

City of Bellingham Position: Purchasing Manager Location: Bellingham, Washington Closing Date: Friday, August 11, 2017 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time Interview Schedule: The most qualified candidates will be asked to participate in a panel interview on August 31, 2017. Directs work of purchasing staff in carrying out and executing contracts.

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Recap: NIGP “Best Value Procurement” Webinar Presented by Negometrix CEO, Jan Siderius

Mercell

On September 11, 2018, The National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP) invited Negometrix CEO, Jan Siderius, to present an hour long webinar regarding Best Value Procurement. The presentation includes some useful examples of criteria and warnings about scaling, weighing, and scoring. Why Best Value?

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GSA’s FAS streamlining federal procurement by updating GSA Advantage, improving UX, reducing PALT

Federal News Network

GSA received feedback on what it was like to award products and services, what it was like to get those products and services listed on multiple awards schedules or GSA Advantage, and what it was like to actually use that site and purchase those things. That’s why they have multiple ongoing efforts to streamline it.

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GSA calls for nominations to emerging tech-focused acquisition advisory committee

FedScoop

Udaya Patnaik, chief innovation officer for the Office of IT Category in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said last month during a Professional Services Council event that the limited knowledge of AI’s capabilities aren’t clear, presenting a challenge when trying to interact with a “constantly evolving technology.”

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Purchasing uncertain or indefinite requirements – guest post by ?erban Filipon

How to Crack a Nut

I am delighted to present to How to Crack a Nut readers an outline of my recently published book Framework Agreements, Supplier Lists and Other Public Procurement Tools: Purchasing Uncertain or Indefinite Requirements (Hart Publishing, 2023).

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Even Rules have their Limits, Says SBA OHA about the Nonmanufacturer Rule

SmallGovCon

OHA turned to the language of the nonmanufacturer rule itself, which states it does not apply to simplified acquisition procedures, and does not apply to small business set-aside contracts “with an estimated value between the micro-purchase threshold and the simplified acquisition threshold.” 8(a)) at any dollar amount.