Cooperative Purchasing

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Tight funding leads to being more efficient

Multnomah County installs new ERP and institutes other changes

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Procurement team keeps a grip on budget reality

San Diego’s purchasing group serves as a collaborator and maximizes its limited resources

Tradition Energy helps the City of Green Bay reduce natural gas costs

Tradition Energy, the nation’s largest and most experienced energy management and procurement advisor, recently helped the City of Green Bay, Wis., reduce its natural gas procurement costs by approximately 20% for more than 50 of its facilities. The City of Green Bay utilized a cooperative purchasing contract – available through U.S. Communities (now part of […]

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New York procurement department’s staff grows despite county budget cuts

Rockland County Director of Purchasing Paul Brennan recommends talking up your department’s accomplishments.

NC State University streamlines procurement process by integrating with Graybar

North Carolina State University (NC State University) needed to streamline and automate their ordering and invoicing process for the faculty and staff while reducing costs and risks. Its solution was to build an interactive user interface and rely on Graybar for the electrical, data communications and security products as well as Graybar’s contract terms and […]

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Interns, embedded staff help procurement team maintain productivity

California purchasing department survives tight budgets through creative staffing

U.S. Communities announces new contract for equipment and truck rentals

U.S. Communities has announced a new contract for equipment and truck rentals with Herc Rentals and Big Truck Rental. This contract, awarded by Charlotte, N.C., starts Nov. 1 with a five-year initial term with the option to renew for two additional two-year periods. U.S. Communities is committed to outstanding procurement, simplified. Whether customers are interested […]

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How to expand your procurement operations

Re-branding as a solutions provider led to Virginia Beach, Va., growing its staff and increasing their compensation.

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5 ways for government to modernize identity proofing

The sheer range of dynamic and emerging fraud tactics can impede agencies from achieving security. These threats must be met with a variety of identity proofing and management tactics. Without monitoring, performance assessments and tuning, a singular and static identity proofing strategy can be exposed by evolving schemes and the use of high-quality compromised identity […]

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Meeting the challenge of looming tighter government budgets

Local government budgets are still sluggish. The National League of Cities’ (NLC) newest “City Fiscal Conditions” report, due to be released soon, says, “cities are still recovering from the Great Recession and shouldering the country’s residual economic burden.” The NLC report summary says local economies are growing, but local governments have had to make sizeable tradeoffs to […]

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Tight funding leads to being more efficient

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Procurement team keeps a grip on budget reality

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Tradition Energy helps the City of Green Bay reduce natural gas costs

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New York procurement department’s staff grows despite county budget cuts

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NC State University streamlines procurement process by integrating with Graybar

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Interns, embedded staff help procurement team maintain productivity

U.S. Communities announces new contract for equipment and truck rentals

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How to expand your procurement operations

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5 ways for government to modernize identity proofing

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Meeting the challenge of looming tighter government budgets

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