Federal News Network

MARCH 26, 2025

billion in costs through category management in fiscal 2024, nearly 29% above their goal for the year. When the government first started its modern journey toward category management almost exactly a decade ago, the goal was relatively easy to describe, if hard to achieve: Reduce the amount of complexity in the federal procurement system.

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The Procurement School

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Contract Management is an essential element of the procurement lifecycle as it helps to mitigate risks, ensure compliance and achieve desired outcomes. It is an important process whether one is managing a low value short term single vendor agreement or a complex multi-vendor long term contact.

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USFCR

JANUARY 15, 2025

562998 All Other Miscellaneous Waste Management Services Handling specialized waste management tasks, such as removing hazardous debris. 113310 Logging Salvaging timber and managing forest health post-fire. 115310 Support Activities for Forestry Managing reforestation efforts and implementing wildfire prevention measures.

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FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency lacks a complete and accurate inventory of its information systems and software asset management data, according to the agencys Office of Inspector General. The agency software asset management tool doesnt contain complete and accurate software license data to comply with both NIST and agency requirements.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Check out some of our success stories below: K –12 Alabama School District Leverages Cooperative Sixth-Largest US School District Saves Over $500,000 by Utilizing a Cooperative Higher Education Optimizing Procurement: The University of Arizona’s Time-Saving Journey with Cooperative Purchasing Empowering Interaction: Appalachian State University’s (..)

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Organizations is a management service that helps you centrally govern your multi-account environment. Each organization is composed of a central management account and member accounts. The management account is established as the consolidated billing account for Organizations.

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VWV

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The list will be managed by the Procurement Review Unit (PRU) and will contain the names of excluded and excludable suppliers. How will the exclusion and debarment regime work? The updated exclusion and debarment regime marks one of the Act's biggest changes for suppliers, introducing a publicly centralised debarment list.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 19, 2025

It has been written by Oxford Insights team Jasmine Kendall and Joram Brouwer who spoke to Vitaliy Trenkenshu, a managing partner at Datanomix.pro in Kazakhstan about the companys tool Red Flags Management. What the tool can detect Part of Red Flags Management’s value lies in its ability to detect shell companies.

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ivalua

MAY 29, 2025

Procurement and supply chain management are often used interchangeably—but in practice, the lines between them can blur in ways that create real friction. In this blog, we cover the key differences between procurement and supply chain management, and explain where the biggest disconnects typically occur.

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Federal News Network

JULY 14, 2025

When the head of the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service shared plans with employees to manage roughly $400 billion in procurement this year, it marked a new phase for the agency. Effective management of these systems cannot take place if decision makers cannot measure what is wrong to make it right.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2024

GSA says its IT Vendor Management Office is close to finalizing a governmentwide deal with Microsoft. The Government Accountability Office found last January that out of the 24 agencies they reviewed for software licenses management, Microsoft was the most common, with agencies reporting it 36 times for a total of about $2.4

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Federal News Network

MAY 23, 2025

The Office of Personnel Management is taking a second bite at the apple to modernize its human resources platform. OPM released a new request for proposals on Thursday through the General Services Administration schedules program for a secure, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) human capital management (HCM) platform.

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Select GCR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They are responsible for managing the entire project, including hiring subcontractors, coordinating tasks, and ensuring compliance with federal regulations and contractual obligations. Additionally, prime contractors must manage all contractual obligations to ensure the project’s successful completion.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

From acquiring security staff and surveillance technology to event-specific safety gear, having a well-coordinated procurement plan is essential for effective crowd and event management. Procurement teams must source reliable security services that can scale up depending on the size and complexity of the event.

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Fragmented systems, rising cost pressures, and shifting risk profiles are making it harder than ever to manage procurement effectively. Core Operational Focus Areas A modern strategy must prioritize foundational capabilities, including spend analysis , vendor management, contract lifecycle management, and risk management.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM). Source: Authors’s elaboration.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Legislation to improve federal agency oversight and management of software purchases passed the House on Wednesday, keeping top IT and software trade groups’ hopes alive that the bill will get through the Senate and become law before this congressional term is up. The Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act ( H.R.1695

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 10, 2025

Managing these and thousands of other reconstruction projects is a daunting task. Restoration and modernization projects can be managed and tracked in granular detail through a central, publicly available platform called DREAM , short for Digital Restoration Ecosystem for Accountable Management.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Instead of dealing with a flood of unstructured or inconsistent feedback from various sources, officials can prioritize key issues and ensure the right team members address them efficiently, making the whole process more manageable.

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Federal News Network

MAY 13, 2025

As the background for listeners, the system for award management, or SAM, is an important database that the government maintains for all prime contractors at least, and often a lot of subcontractors and recipients of grants, etc. Let’s start with the bottom line up front. Zach Prince: Sure. But this has be held up in protest since 2023.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

Ruslan Shokaev, Managing Director of the Chamber of Commerce Atameken, notes that Atameken actively participated in the working group for the development of the new Public Procurement Law, in which it called for compliance with the principles of competitiveness in public procurement.

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Select GCR

JANUARY 14, 2025

This includes providing evidence of minority ownership, which involves documentation proving the identity of the owners and their control over management and daily business operations. This means that women must not only own the business but also be involved in its management and daily operations.

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ivalua

JULY 1, 2025

Fragmented systems, rising cost pressures, and shifting risk profiles are making it harder than ever to manage procurement effectively. Core Operational Focus Areas A modern strategy must prioritize foundational capabilities, including spend analysis , vendor management, contract lifecycle management, and risk management.

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Select GCR

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Understanding the System for Award Management (SAM) The System for Award Management (SAM) is a centralized system that the federal government uses to manage the process of awarding contracts and financial assistance. Remember, creating a user account is different from registering your entity, a common mistake to avoid.

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ivalua

MAY 16, 2025

Rising software costs, lack of procurement oversight, compliance headaches, and clunky vendor management. All of these processes are critical components for managing procurement activities strategically. Modules can include e-sourcing, contract management, supplier management, procure-to-pay (P2P), and advanced spend analytics.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

” – Vendor Manager | ONE AMERICAN BANK Use Data and Analytics to Make Informed Decisions Modern procurement relies heavily on data. Using a cooperative purchasing program ensures compliance with state and federal laws while reducing the risks associated with supplier management. ’ and this is the way to get those.”

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GovSpend

JULY 16, 2025

In our latest product webinar, Midyear in Review , Kathryn Sanders, Director of Product Management – Platforms, shared a deep dive into the tools we’ve rolled out recently and previewed powerful capabilities currently in development. Let your Relationship Manager know what tools you’re using — your input helps shape our roadmap.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Knowing these timelines and preparing accordingly can help manage expectations and plan resources effectively. This process can take anywhere from 4 to 24 months to complete, depending on the complexity and scope of the contract.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Announced at AWS re:Invent 2024, Satellite Resiliency for AWS Outposts offers a comprehensive, Partner-managed solution for resilient cloud-connected edge computing that extends the reach of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to the most remote and geographically dispersed environments on earth.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Given that agencies spend hundreds of billions of dollars on goods and services the more procurement data it has, the better it can understand trends and ‘manage’ procurement. And so how has that enabled better management of contracting systems? The government both creates and runs on data. Tom Temin: Right.

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Tracker Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2025

The evaluation criteria are usually a balance between quality (40-50%), cost (30-40%), risk management (10-20%) and social value (5-10%). Embedding Risk Controls in Tender Responses Where required, show how performance bonds, guarantees, or contract variations will be managed within your pricing strategy.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center has awarded a contract to Mission Conversion Services Alliance for the continued management and operation of all uranium hexafluoride activities at the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office, or PPPO. billion, if

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The System for Award Management (SAM) is a crucial tool for small businesses, serving as a database where government agencies identify eligible contractors. Effective management of contract changes and terminations ensures compliance and protects contractors interests. How can small businesses qualify for government contracts?

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JULY 10, 2025

Understanding the 6 types of power can help procurement professionals approach key activities more effectively, from sourcing and negotiating to supplier management and conflict resolution. Each type of power can influence outcomes differently, and knowing how to identify and use them is essential for strategic decision-making.

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How to Crack a Nut

JUNE 16, 2025

Existing public management scholarship has predominantly conceptualised procurement through legal-regulatory, economic, or administrative perspectives. This reconceptualization bridges public management scholarship with anthropological and socio-legal perspectives and outlines avenues for future research.

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FedScoop

MAY 19, 2025

An independent federal agency charged with chartering and overseeing credit unions and insuring the savings held in those financial institutions, the NCUA employs model risk management guidance that the Government Accountability Office said is limited in scope and detail. and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency among them are not.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 18, 2025

The cancellation appeared to mark the end of the overall GHC project, which DoD first began in 2018 with the goal of improving the moving process by consolidating its management under a single managed service provider.

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