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Procurement decisions don’t fail inside procurement. They fail when real-world conditions hit them. That’s what we assess.
Virginia’s eProcurement Bureau Director to provide the client point of view with a regular column in the Procurement Insights Blog
The first time I had the pleasure of talking with Bob Sievert back in August 2007 was when he contacted me regarding a then recent post titled The Ariba Interviews: Re-engineering the Future of On-Demand? After introducing himself and sharing with me a brief overview of Virginia’s eVA initiative, Bob asked if I would be interested […]
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Slacking With Your Professional Development? The True Reason Is Different Than The One You Want To Believe! By Charles Dominick, SPSM, SPSM2
August 28, 2012
Wanna put a theory of mine to the test? Ask yourself the following question and write down your answer on a sheet of paper before reading the rest of this article. Why have you not earned your procurement certification or participated in much professional development? OK. Do you have your answer written down? If so, […]
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UK Public Sector Procurement News by Colin Cram
August 24, 2012
UK public sector procurement has been in the news the past two months. The Scottish government (no, Scotland is not an independent country, but it does have a lot of autonomy, rather like the states in the USA) has passed a bill merging its 8 police forces. A detailed business case concluded that merger, as […]
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Is Procurement Trying Too Hard? by Kelly Barner
August 22, 2012
One of the interesting stories to come out of the 2012 London Olympics is that some of the badminton teams were disqualified for trying to LOSE matches. That’s not exactly what you expect from the most competitive athletes in the world in any sport. They weren’t trying to lose because they wanted to go home, […]
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STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA by Colin Cram
August 1, 2012
The bankruptcy of Stockton, California, is a stark reminder of what can befall cities that mismanage their finances. There are some similarities with Greece – making unfundable commitments to workers over wages, spending on ill-conceived projects such as the $35n spent on a city hall that remains unused and is now infested by rats, and […]
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Take The Source One Procurement Professional Survey
July 26, 2012
Thanks for taking the time to complete our Procurement Professional Survey. We value your feedback. Your response will help us conduct research into the current perception of Procurement’s value to internal organizations and will help us to publish information on how savings initiatives are tracked. If you choose to provide your contact information, you will […]
Posted in: Surveys
Are public sector employees on the endangered species list?
July 24, 2012
In today’s post by Buyers Meeting Point’s Kelly Barner (Austerity Measures: Coming to a Company Near You?), she talks about how “many governments in Europe are considering austerity measures,” and “reducing national debt by spending less, particularly on public service.” Based on a recent article which indicated that since 2009 approximately 600,000 state and local […]
Posted in: Commentary, Public Sector Procurement
Austerity Measures: Coming to a Company Near You? by Kelly Barner
July 24, 2012
Today’s economic updates are full of sour news – we hear about faltering stability in the Euro Zone caused by high debt to GDP ratios and high rates of unemployment in Greece, Spain and Italy. North America is dealing with their own economic contraction: both the U.S. and Canada face increasing unemployment, slow job creation, […]
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Who should drive the procurement of innovation policy? by Dr. John Rigby
July 18, 2012
We have got to an interesting point now in the debate over the procurement of innovation. The major question for policy makers is who should be implementing this policy. As I said on the show the other week, pre-commercial procurement is at the moment relatively little used but it does form the basis for for […]
GAS Dependency by Colin Cram
July 16, 2012
Isn’t it time that politicians started to think more like top class procurement professionals? The Times newspaper in the UK, on 30 June, had an article by Tim Webb, its energy editor, about how the ‘Russian stranglehold on UK gas supplies is set to get tighter’. ‘Britain’s dependence on imported Russian gas is set to […]
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Procurement Insights 
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