Procurement

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Advancing state procurement skill levels

National organization focuses on education, research, training and cooperative purchasing.

Tennessee city employees’ personal info inadvertently exposed online for nearly one year

The personal information for approximately 1,470 Knoxville, Tenn., employees was inadvertently...

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...

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Reader Response: Thoughts on “Responsive and Responsible”

Lisa Premo’s excellent article “Language Matters: Distinguishing Between Responsive and Responsible” inspired me to contribute additional points to consider regarding use of the terms “responsive” and “responsible.” During the latest iteration of my research into best practices in state and local government procurement, I added two best practices titled “Define ‘responsive proposal’ in RFP” and […]

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Language Matters: The Importance of Listening

We have only to observe the communication of a newborn as it becomes a toddler, child, teenager and adult to witness the evolution and importance of language and the ability to communicate. Newborns quickly learn the results from a whimper, which can quickly escalate to tears; toddlers often take it up a notch to full-blown […]

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Five Keys to Negotiating Energy Supply Agreements

We are now on the final piece in our series on negotiating energy supply agreements – material change language. This wraps up the five-part discussion, which also offered our insights in the other four keys: 1. Payment terms 2. Termination fees 3. Adding and deleting accounts 4. Usage bandwidth Material change language is something of […]

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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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Procurement

Highlights

Advancing state procurement skill levels

Tennessee city employees’ personal info inadvertently exposed online for nearly one year

Dual reports illuminate best practices for large vehicle design

Article

Reader Response: Thoughts on “Responsive and Responsible”

Article

Language Matters: The Importance of Listening

Article

Five Keys to Negotiating Energy Supply Agreements

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

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