GovLoop

JULY 31, 2023

Research has revealed that 60% of constituents strongly prefer digital points of contact rather than contact by phone or in person, which makes digital services and products essential to providing good service. For some users, maybe it’s just the relief of avoiding a social interaction to pay a fee or complete a form.

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Evaluation Goods & Services IT Management 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 24, 2023

However, it can well be that, in practice, once the protectionist boat has sailed, B decides to entertain tenders coming from economic operators from C, D … Z for, once B’s domestic industries are not protected, B’s public buyers may well want to browse through the entire catalogue offered by the world market—especially if A does not have the most (..)

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers Tender Negotiation 52

ivalua

APRIL 13, 2021

Extend that visibility in depth and map out the suppliers your suppliers depend on to provide you the goods/services purchased. Strategies such as China + 1 represent a step in this direction. Extend visibility into sub-tiers. Technology can increasingly support this, giving you a dynamic map of your supply chain.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Procurement Supplier Collaboration 52

Select GCR

MARCH 5, 2024

The primary goal of issuing an RFP is to solicit competitive proposals from qualified vendors, service providers, or contractors. Here are some examples of entities that commonly use RFPs: Government Agencies: Government agencies use RFPs as a formalized method to procure goods, services, or projects.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Professional Services Competitive Bidding Education 52

Mercell

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Negometrix will deliver the software solution, that will be used by all public authorities such as cities, provinces, ministries, hospitals, utilities and others for purchasing goods, services and supplies completely electronically. The awarding criteria was 60% on quality and 40% on price.

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Federal News Network

MAY 29, 2024

People all across America depend upon knowledgeable, capable person at the other end of the line when they call, but they expect good service and by and large, they’ve been getting it. Tom Temin We’re speaking with David Berto, president, and CEO of the Professional Services Council.

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Bidder Professional Services Negotiation Bidding 98

The Procurement School

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When thinking about these questions, consider three different types of vendor relationships: (a) vendors wanting to do business with government; (b) vendors participating in a solicitation process; and (c) contractors providing goods, services or construction to government.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Buyers Budget Quality 52

The Procurement School

JANUARY 12, 2023

Author: Liz Busch Do you feel that your organization may not be strategically procuring the goods, services and construction it needs? You’re not alone!

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Procurement Strategies Procurement Strategic Planning Supply Chain 52

University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Approximately a third of public sector spending goes to procure third-party goods, services, and works. Public buyers seeking to procure goods, services or works from the market need to process large amounts of information to choose a responsible provider offering the best possible terms on quality, cost, experience, etc.

Procurement 52

Procurement Government Government Buyers 52

The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

To ensure bidders are qualified to provide the required good / service it is recommended they score at or above a minimum technical threshold to proceed to the next evaluation stage. Some RFBs may contain additional evaluation stages such as a demonstration or an interview which are scored separately.

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Bidder Procurement Evaluation Bidding 52

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Capturing Value occurs when a contract has been established that governs the responsibilities and obligations of both supplier and buyer, and well as when the organization has the right Procure-to-Pay processes in place to ensure compliance to those agreements, goods, services and prices. .

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Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Procurement Team 52

The Procurement School

JANUARY 22, 2024

Rated Criteria The technical evaluation criteria needs to align clearly with the scope / performance requirements of the good / service being procured. The clearer the technical evaluation criteria the better the procurement outcome. This includes writing clear non-biased functional specifications or performance requirements.

Procurement Contracts 40

Procurement Contracts Procurement Bidder Contract 40

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While we now have the classification for women businesses, we want to better understand in which business categories they are most active – consultancies, goods, services? But the agency is also aware that this is only the first step, and is working towards improving the data quality and availability in their open data portal.

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E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Bidding 80

The Procurement School

JUNE 25, 2023

trade agreements Because the public sector is spending tax dollars, public sector bodies in Canada recognize the importance of acquiring goods, services and construction in a manner that can withstand objective scrutiny.

Procurement 52

Procurement Thresholds Public Procurement Transparency 52

The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 1, 2016

You should start with the procurement law or regulation, then study the procurement manual (or manuals, if there are many), then the standard bidding documents for each of the procurement categories ( goods , services or infrastructure works ) you will be expected to manage.

Public Procurement 40

Public Procurement Procurement Bidding Import 40

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

A procure-to-pay platform can offer: A single place for goods, services, components, tools and travel. Manual labor involving fixing invoicing issues caused by suppliers or missing orders and receipts are more easily resolved. Supplier, contract, legal tax and policy compliance. Electronic capture of all B2B transactions.

Procurement 81

Procurement E-auction E-procurement End to End 81

Government Contracts Legal Forum

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Second , and relatedly, if the procurement is conducted under the FSS, companies should determine whether each and every item or service is available on their team’s FSS schedule. As LexisNexis learned, even a “brand name” product can be technically unacceptable if all of the offerings are not available on the offeror’s FSS schedule.

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Sustainability Bidding Goods & Services Government Contracts 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

A procure-to-pay platform can offer: A single place for goods, services, components, tools and travel. Manual labor involving fixing invoicing issues caused by suppliers or missing orders and receipts are more easily resolved. Supplier, contract, legal tax and policy compliance. Electronic capture of all B2B transactions.

Procurement 59

Procurement E-auction E-procurement End to End 59

ivalua

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A view into risk will always lead to improved decision-making–whether it is simply a RFx, contract negotiation, purchase of a good/service, or the processing of an invoice. However, leading procurement organizations leverage risk data to manage decisions proactively rather than constantly reacting to risk.

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Risk Management Management Supplier Supply Chain 52

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

It starts with identifying the right suppliers for a need, sharing requirements and evaluating supplier offers, selecting the most appropriate supplier, negotiating terms and contracting with them to receive goods and/or services. Source-to-Pay is typically broken into two parts – upstream and downstream.

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Supplier E-procurement Supply Chain Purchasing 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Public contracts matter, he says: “The government allocates 32% of the country’s budget towards goods, services, and public works, to secure the rights and enhance the quality of life for citizens. Corruption in public procurement makes us poorer and takes our rights away.”

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Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 66

Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 31, 2022

Electronic Invoicing for Cross-border Transactions To facilitate this process of transparency and tax control, we propose electronic invoicing for all cross-border transactions of goods, services, intangibles and financing, and promoting the exchange of information between all jurisdictions involved in the ultimate beneficial ownership and country-by-country (..)

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Thresholds Distribution Electronics Accountability 52

VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The NAO investigation into government procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic, commissioned as a result of the enormous volumes of goods, services and works procured during the first lockdown with extreme urgency, makes uncomfortable reading. How Have These Rules Been Applied In Practice?

Contract 40

Contract Tender Supplier Procurement 40

The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 26, 2019

Price/Financial Evaluation: At this stage, the panel examines the offered price for computational errors and, depending on the procurement type ( goods , services or work), takes into consideration factors such as provisional sums and discounts, etc.

Evaluation 40

Evaluation Bidding Bidder Price 40

Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

The prohibitions do not extend to purchases of goods, services, or technology that connect goods or services to third party services (e.g., interconnection) or to components, defined broadly as an item supplied to the federal government as part of an end item or of another component.

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Government Government Export Data 40

Inside Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Section 1260H of the NDAA for FY 2021 required the Secretary of Defense to publish and regularly update a list of companies controlled by the People’s Liberation Army (“PLA”) or identified as “military-civil fusion contributors” for the Chinese defense industrial base and operating in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Manufacturing Education Export 130

Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

193] Yet, with inflation in the background, that pricing arguably does not reflect the reasonable value of the construction/goods/services when those things were actually provided.

Government 40

Government Government Price Contract 40

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Introduction From up close, public procurement law can be seen as the set of mostly procedural rules controlling the way in which the public sector buys goods, services, and works from the market. Public Procurement I.

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Public Procurement Procurement Buyers Tender 104