I love public sector procurement. It would be reasonable to suggest that it is a market I have engaged extensively – especially in the first decade of the Procurement Insights blog.
For example, I chaired the Summit Roundtable on the Canadian government’s post-Way Forward autopsy. After giving several interviews with the local media asking for my assessment, I wrote the final post on the topic in June 2011.
Of course, my coverage extended outside the Canadian borders to include the United States and the United Kingdom.
For example—and I find it interesting that I reference them more today than I did back then—the Commonwealth of Virginia’s eVA initiative began with an early 2007 post titled “Yes, Virginia, there is more to eProcurement than software.” The post or series of posts took on a life of their own, being picked up by an external publication and other industry-related channels. Here is the link to that first post.
Besides being the topic for one of my first radio segments in 2009—you probably know them as podcasts now—if you search my name, it will come up in a couple of places in the State’s official records of the JLARC Review. On a personal note, one of the best honors I received was being given an American Flag that was flown over the State’s capital building regarding my session at the 2014 Public Procurement Forum on “Bridging the Disconnect Between Finance and Purchasing.”
There are many other articles and papers on public sector procurement that I can discuss, such as Elcom and the Scottish government, the province of Ontario’s initiative with Bravo Solutions, and my coverage of MERX, an early sponsor of this blog. However, time and space are limited, so I will highlight a few of the key points I will cover in the weeks ahead regarding the mdf platform (or solution consolidation) under the single brand name – SOVRA.
The coverage points include:
- Going beyond a brand name consolidation, how will SOVRA actually “link” the stable of disparate systems into a cohesive unit. For example, will they use the Metaprise architecture? Will they use an agent-based versus equation-based implementation methodology?
- How will they avoid similar consolidation challenges like the well-intentioned At Your Service initiative in North Carolina?
- Another question is how SOVRA will earn supplier trust, starting with MERX. In my many interviews with CFIB VP Corinne Pohlman, she talks about how most SMEs in Canada don’t bother bidding on government tenders because they consider the process a waste of time and money.
- In the U.S., the challenges with winning government business is also an issue, as highlighted in the following article excerpt – “All this, of course, coincides with the revelation by former aide to New York Governor Mario Cuomo Al Gordon that 90% of all winning bidders are decided through a series of open, non-clandestine meetings in which the vendor gains what Judy Bradt has referred to as legitimate and transparent buyer preference.” – https://bit.ly/3KJHUja
Of course, there are the key players like Thierry Jaffrey, with whom I worked on the following two articles when he was with Fluxym – The Emergence of The New Standard Consultancy Model and Clean Data: Laying the Foundation for Digital Supply Chain Success (Guest Excerpt by Thierry Jaffry)
I will also contact several of my public sector connections to ask their thoughts on the mdf news.
From a government procurement standpoint, September should be an exciting and insightful month.
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What does SOVRA mean when they talk about “A New Brand Transforming Public Procurement?”
Posted on August 26, 2024
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I love public sector procurement. It would be reasonable to suggest that it is a market I have engaged extensively – especially in the first decade of the Procurement Insights blog.
For example, I chaired the Summit Roundtable on the Canadian government’s post-Way Forward autopsy. After giving several interviews with the local media asking for my assessment, I wrote the final post on the topic in June 2011.
Of course, my coverage extended outside the Canadian borders to include the United States and the United Kingdom.
For example—and I find it interesting that I reference them more today than I did back then—the Commonwealth of Virginia’s eVA initiative began with an early 2007 post titled “Yes, Virginia, there is more to eProcurement than software.” The post or series of posts took on a life of their own, being picked up by an external publication and other industry-related channels. Here is the link to that first post.
Besides being the topic for one of my first radio segments in 2009—you probably know them as podcasts now—if you search my name, it will come up in a couple of places in the State’s official records of the JLARC Review. On a personal note, one of the best honors I received was being given an American Flag that was flown over the State’s capital building regarding my session at the 2014 Public Procurement Forum on “Bridging the Disconnect Between Finance and Purchasing.”
There are many other articles and papers on public sector procurement that I can discuss, such as Elcom and the Scottish government, the province of Ontario’s initiative with Bravo Solutions, and my coverage of MERX, an early sponsor of this blog. However, time and space are limited, so I will highlight a few of the key points I will cover in the weeks ahead regarding the mdf platform (or solution consolidation) under the single brand name – SOVRA.
The coverage points include:
Of course, there are the key players like Thierry Jaffrey, with whom I worked on the following two articles when he was with Fluxym – The Emergence of The New Standard Consultancy Model and Clean Data: Laying the Foundation for Digital Supply Chain Success (Guest Excerpt by Thierry Jaffry)
I will also contact several of my public sector connections to ask their thoughts on the mdf news.
From a government procurement standpoint, September should be an exciting and insightful month.
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