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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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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

This report encouraged governments big and small to improve the “environment content” of their purchasing policies. As environmental issues have become more important to governments and administrations within the last few decades, it has gotten easier to identify ways to leverage purchasing to support these goals.

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As the Acquisition World Turns: OFPP turns heat up on primes

Federal News Network

The micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contract ceiling and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to increase in 2025. Here are few of the biggest changes on tap: Micro-purchase threshold would increase to $15,000 from $10,000. In a proposed rule from Nov. million from $4.5

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

Telles.eu

It is defined in the Annex as a 'supply made via direct purchases from the producer or through one single intermediary.' Can you imagine bread being ineligible for purchase for months on end because the wheat season has finished in Portugal? So what is a 'short supply chain'?

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

ivalua

According to the panelists, there are some key features and functionality that make best-in-class supply chain solutions a better choice for healthcare organizations: Guided procure-to-pay compliance: The concept of compliant purchasing in healthcare encompases the front-end user experience. Efficient warehouse management.

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Need Storage? Find a Place (and a Partner) for Your Excess Equipment

DemandStar

Since these items are being purchased at considerable volume, it’s likely that individual government offices will not have the needed equipment storage space. Additionally, they may be participating in shared resources purchasing networks, so looking for a centralized location easily accessible by all entities sharing resources is appealing.

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Univ. of Pittsburgh Athletics use AWS to unlock data insights for every step of the fan journey

AWS Public Sector

Using AWS Lambda and AWS Glue , Pitt built out constituent profiles with ingested data stored in centralized warehouses in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. Predictive modeling results in more powerful messaging In the past, the Pitt marketing team could only see how many tickets a fan had purchased per season.

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