Procurement

Highlights

Dual reports illuminate best practices for large vehicle design

Two new reports from a nonprofit representing cities and transit agencies as well as a federal...

Purchasing powerfully

Cooperative procurement drives innovation and efficiencies.

Industry Insights: Procurement software

Q&A with Corry Flatt, CEO and co-founder of Bonfire Interactive.

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Finding an Ally: These are the Relationships that Procurement Professionals Should Prioritize

As public procurement professionals, you may think that it is important to increase your visibility and credibility with C-level leaders – the CIO, CTO, city manager, or mayor/governor. They are driving very high-profile and innovative government modernization initiatives that demand specific procurement capabilities. Without their cooperation and support, it can be challenging to define the […]

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Contractual Results and Risks

Recently I was invited to deliver a presentation on government procurement to a group of program managers and other very carefully selected officials who had been carefully selected from the business units of a very large and well known-corporation. Many of the officials who sat in on my session work in capacities related to DoD […]

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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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U.S. Communities withdraws from NIGP Cooperative Accreditation

U.S. Communities announced on Aug. 30 that it will withdraw from the NIGP Cooperative Accreditation (NAC) program, effective immediately at the time of the announcement. “We have always supported NIGP and were the first, and only, to support the accreditation,” U.S. Communities Executive Director Kevin Juhring said in a statement provided to Government Procurement. “At […]

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4 questions to ask when moving to the cloud

Cloud computing has become a viable option for many public sector organizations. The majority of public sector CIOs are assessing their cloud options. In a 2017 Center for Digital Government (CDG) research study, including a survey and interviews of more than 80 state government officials, 55 percent of respondents said they had moved email to […]

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City of Albany revitalizes playgrounds and neighborhoods

In 2015, a study by Brandeis University listed Albany, New York as one of the worst cities in the nation for equitable neighborhood opportunities for the healthy development of Hispanic and black children. Jonathan Jones, Commissioner of Recreation, Youth & Workforce, with the partnership of Mayor Kathy Sheehan, decided to do something about it. “We sat down […]

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Governments are relying on fewer public purchasing managers

Public agencies are stepping up recruiting to keep the buying process flowing smoothly.

Procurement

Highlights

Dual reports illuminate best practices for large vehicle design

Purchasing powerfully

Industry Insights: Procurement software

Article

Finding an Ally: These are the Relationships that Procurement Professionals Should Prioritize

Article

Contractual Results and Risks

Article

How to expand your procurement operations

Article

5 ways for government to modernize identity proofing

Article

Meeting the challenge of looming tighter government budgets

Article

U.S. Communities withdraws from NIGP Cooperative Accreditation

Article

4 questions to ask when moving to the cloud

Article

City of Albany revitalizes playgrounds and neighborhoods

Article

Governments are relying on fewer public purchasing managers

Article

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The next wave in #AutonomousVehicles is arriving at the #municipal and county level: #SelfDrivingShuttles.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Jennifer Robinson, director of local government solutions for @SASsoftware, talks about how #MachineLearning has he… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

If placed end-to-end, the #structurallydeficient in America would stretch from Miami to New York City. Officials a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Experts endorse paper trails and #risklimitingaudits as sound defenses against #electionhacking… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The mayor of @NorthamptonMA made history on Nov. 20 as one of two customers to be the first to legally buy recreati… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Jessica Gover, a writer and researcher at @Kennedy_School explains approaches and processes that your #government c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…