FedScoop

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In a report released Monday , the GSA’s Office of Inspector General flagged unreliable geospatial datasets that contain “inaccurate latitude and longitude coordinates” and data quality deficiencies, undercutting the agency’s compliance with the Geospatial Data Act of 2018. GSA also asserted that its geospatial data purchases are immaterial.”

Data 107

Data Purchasing Quality Inventory 107

The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 14, 2025

The VA has made steady and significant progress in the management and operation of its prime vendor distribution contract and Supply Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) for the Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor (MSPV) program. These products represent higher volume items that are purchased by medical treatment facilities across the VA.

Supply Chain 49

Supply Chain Purchasing Transparency Price 49

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Smart public procurement refers to making optimal decisions to minimize waste and enhance the quality, efficiency and sustainability of public spending when purchasing and contracting goods, works and services. Better contracts and processes, for example, could reduce the risk of delays, quality problems or unexpected costs.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Strategic Planning Balance 52

GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While Guidehouse has been acquired twice since emerging from the public sector segment of PwC in 2018, CEO Scott McIntyre tells us that there were three key things in common between Veritas Capital and Bain Capital, the two purchasers.

Quality 52

Quality Purchasing 52

ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

The Strategic Sourcing modules of Ivalua allow Punch Powertrain buyers to define Purchasing needs collaboratively, consolidate the tendering documents and ease costing by suppliers (cost breakdown files, dialogue with the projects on technical feasibility).

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Strategic Sourcing E-auction Automotive Total Cost of Ownership 98

GovSpend

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. This revelation motivated him to bring more transparency to government purchasing.

Procurement 105

Procurement Purchasing Price Bidding 105

ivalua

MAY 30, 2023

It is an important part of the decision-making process and requires careful consideration of a wide range of factors, such as cost, quality, reliability, and delivery times. When you work with local experts and access nearby resources, you can ensure top-quality products.

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Procurement Supply Chain Eprocurement Manufacturing 19

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

So the Rule of Two requires federal agencies to set aside procurements for small businesses where there’s a reasonable expectation that at least two small businesses will be able to submit offers at fair market prices and otherwise competitive in terms of quality and delivery. Tom Temin: And that goes back to the 1980s, right?

Thresholds 103

Thresholds Participation Procurement Contract 103

American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

McGinty notes that some municipal governments are bound by laws or regulations requiring agencies and departments to publicly seek bids before purchasing supplies or services. He advises: “Start the purchasing process with bidding services from distributors like SiteOne to help expedite the process.”

Government 98

Government Government Bidding Purchasing 98

GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

From public meeting transcripts discussing planned spending to Bids & RFPs announced to contracts awarded, and finally the actual purchase orders themselves and their individual line items – we endeavor to tell the story behind every government purchase. One specific example is classifying purchase order records.

Data 105

Data Quality Purchasing Transparency 105

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

One of the most important factors for local governments to consider before purchasing any new technology is how quickly and effectively it can be integrated into an organization’s existing tech stack without disrupting day-to-day operations. Edwards Deming , a leading proponent of statistical quality control in organizations.

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Total Cost of Ownership Cost of Ownership Buyers Buying Process 110

Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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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Procurement Purchasing Negotiation Price 106

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Over 1,500 interactions in the planning phase of projects (1,196 questions, 200 suggestions, and 251 comments) More than 47 user comments have been incorporated in the final bidding documents, ensuring citizen participation in high-impact city purchases.

Collaboration 57

Collaboration E-procurement Tender Bidding 57

FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

ONC said in a press release that it collaborated on the plan with 25 federal agencies that interact with health IT through purchasing, developing and regulating in order to improve health outcomes.

Data 105

Data IT Strategic Planning Electronics 105

ivalua

MARCH 16, 2020

For Körber’s supply chain management community, quality, innovative strength, legal certainty, adherence to delivery dates and the sustainability of suppliers and service providers play a decisive role – as does cost. Körber’s purchasing and supply chain management organisation is responsible for all procurement processes.

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Supply Chain Procurement E-procurement Supplier 19

Telles.eu

OCTOBER 12, 2023

After parts I , II and III we finally reach part IV on the purchase or leasing of vehicles (contract type - 5) For these, the Annex establishes four different award criteria and two contract performance clauses/technical specifications, with issues to be found on both, mostly due to the non-technology neutral approach to the drafting.

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Green Public Procurement Public Procurement Award Criteria Procurement 124

FedScoop

APRIL 10, 2024

Parrish described the project as taking a modular approach and said that the VA is addressing subcomponents with separate technology solutions as a service instead of purchasing hardware “that otherwise would be obsolete over time.”

Supply Chain 107

Supply Chain Inventory Management Electronics Budget 107

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. In the third, poor quality materials had been used. I’m proud of the quality of reports done by civil society last year because they were escalated by the procurement agency to the auditing authorities.

Corruption 90

Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

This ensures transparency and encourages innovation, because as providers introduce new services and products, they become automatically purchasable under the framework agreement. Purchased systems need to replace or work within existing systems.

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Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 138

FedScout

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The first purchases made through government contracts date back to the late 1700s. Today, the term shoddy describes something of poor quality, and it originates from a failed government contract during the Civil War. The coats fell apart as soon as they got wet because they were made of cheap, used, low-quality wool.

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Quality Manufacturing Government Contracts Purchasing 52

Art of Procurement

DECEMBER 3, 2023

“Purchasing has always been finally responsible for quality, cost, and delivery, but with some of the global challenges we’ve had. The post The Opportunity for Procurement to Collaborate with End Customers appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Collaboration Procurement Quality Purchasing 52

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Resolving challenges Mongolia puts a lot of effort into disclosing information in databases on public procurement, beneficial ownership, and declarations by public officials about their assets and income, but the data quality is low and not interconnected. Of course, the more reliable and continuous the government data supply is, the better.

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Data Corruption Supplier Public Procurement 123

SmallGovCon

APRIL 15, 2024

FAR 19.502-2(a) requires that all acquisitions for supplies or services that have an anticipated dollar value above the micro-purchase threshold ($10,000 at the time of this post) but not over the simplified acquisition threshold or SAT ($250,000 at the time of this post) be set aside for small businesses.

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Thresholds Price Bidding Purchasing 110

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JANUARY 9, 2024

As a procurement professional one of your main objectives will be achieving value for money on purchases. How to Apply Cost vs Price Theory to Procurement When making purchases to fulfil business needs, we should consider all associated expenses of a product or service to ensure we are evaluating cost and not price.

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Price Supplier Quality Procurement 59

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Purchase Order has been touted as the only way to manage ‘maverick’ spend (stopping off budget expenditure), but it’s also a way to automate invoice processing. We need to take the good parts of the networks (data quality) and go back to look at AP Automation and invoice matching.

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E-procurement Supplier Buyers Supply Chain 94

NIH NITAAC

JULY 1, 2021

Laptops and desktops continue to be among the most purchased items year-over-year during the federal buying season. NITAAC is pleased to serve as one of three “Best in Class” Government-Wide Strategic Solutions (GSS) for purchasing laptops and desktops for civilian agencies per memo M-16-02 issued on October 16, 2015.

Government 52

Government Government Purchasing Category Management 52

American City & Country

AUGUST 30, 2024

Your team ensures the purchasing of everything from infrastructure projects to healthcare services, defense equipment, and supplies for public schools. By procuring goods and services more efficiently, your organization can better fulfill its responsibilities to other departments, ultimately improving the quality of public services.

Procurement 52

Procurement Eprocurement Quality Efficiency 52

Great Government Through Technology

JANUARY 14, 2025

Ground-based sensor networks: Gathering real-time data on factors like air quality, soil moisture, and weather patterns. Combine SINs to meet your requirements, or try a blanket purchase agreement to fill recurring needs easily. How to Order: Agencies can issue an RFI or RFQ through GSA eBuy using SIN 541370GEO.

Competitive Bidding 40

Competitive Bidding Data Integrity Integration 40

ivalua

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Cyrille Chouvet Supplier Quality and Responsible Purchasing Manager. A graduate of Kedge Business School Marseille and Middlesex Business School in London, Cyrille Chouvet has 20 years of experience in business development and international operations in the industrial sector.

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Purchasing Quality Supplier Networking 40

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Just because the purchase order is placed with the supplier , our work as procurement professionals is not done. Bad KPI Example (Not SMART): Supplier to deliver when goods are needed Good KPI Example (SMART): Supplier to deliver goods detailed on the purchase order by 0800 on Tuesday morning for the duration of the agreement.

Import 59

Import Procurement Supplier Supply Chain 59

ivalua

APRIL 26, 2019

But interestingly, firms are deluding themselves – 65% of those surveyed self-assessed themselves as “advanced purchasing organisations” while the objective analysis suggests that the true figure was more like 16%! Around 80% of the firm’s cost base is purchasing costs, so they really have to get this right!

Purchasing 60

Purchasing Supplier Procurement Automotive 60

Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 1, 2024

They check the availability and quality of constructed bike lanes, particularly in major metropolitan areas using OpenStreetMaps regularly updated via crowdsourcing. Most of the delay was in the award to contract phase, which took 40 days compared to six or less for the other 11 contracts.

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Budget Transportation Transportation Bidder 136

ivalua

APRIL 20, 2023

With an intuitive e-commerce experience, Ivalua’s eProcurement platform will help Hutchinson globalize and streamline purchase requisitions, digitalize and automate large volumes of purchase orders, simplify receiving processes, and improve budget tracking.

Eprocurement 52

Eprocurement Procurement IT E-procurement 52

Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

” Evans said DLA analyzes risk in relation to vendors and the item being purchased, in relation to the price quoted for that item. And then it’s going to be an overlap where we start to update our systems to implement CMMC.” “Over the last few years, we really made a push to automate processes where we can.

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Contract Supplier Logistics Efficiency 100

ivalua

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Sourcing Expert and Purchasing Data Admin at Michelin. significant experience in Communication Networks and Manufacturing, as well as over 10 years of experience in Market Research, Purchasing, Global Contract Deployment and Management, Supplier Relationship Management and Supplier Performance indicators. Janel LONGFELLOW.

Quality Management 8

Quality Management Supplier Purchasing Manufacturing 8

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

Buying supplies, equipment, low preference items and the latest innovations to support high-value care delivery is expensive and while it’s not an area where you want to skimp, there are certainly ways to reduce these expenses without impacting quality of care. For many it’s likely that the opportunity is much larger.

Supply Chain 87

Supply Chain Distribution Strategic Sourcing Quality 87

GovSpend

MARCH 18, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. This revelation motivated him to bring more transparency to government purchasing.

Procurement 52

Procurement Purchasing Price Bidding 52