Procurement Insights

Procurement Contests Review 3-Part Series

September 5, 2011

Just a quick not to my readers . . . For those who may have missed one of the posts in last week’s 3-Part Procurement Contests Review series, I have created a dedicated page that will provide you with easy access to each post as well as provide you with a venue through which you […]

Tagged: procurement contests

Posted in: Commentary, Procurement Trends, Public Sector Procurement

Government procurement contests (Part 3): A question of (IP) ownership

September 1, 2011

NOTE: The following is an article that was originally published on August 7th, 2008 under the heading Finding the hidden Intellectual Property (IP) value in procurement contracts. While it focused on the unique services of the Future Path organization, its resonance relative to the emergence of procurement contests – especially within the public sector, is […]

Tagged: European Commission, Expert Group Report, Future Path, government purchasing, Greg Waite, intellectual property, IP rights, procurement contests, Public Procurement for Research and Innovation (Developing procurement practices favourable to R&D and innovation)

Posted in: Commentary, Procurement Trends, Public Sector Procurement

Government procurement contests (Part 2): When innovative ideas collide . . .

August 31, 2011

Gèrard Quenneville, an Aylmer engineer who is acting as a liaison between the company and the city on the file, says, “The proposal deserved to be studied in depth.” Mr. Quenville notes Alpine Energy had been working for four years on the proposal. Both Mr. Quenville and Mr. Carrière met with Mayor Marc Bureau the […]

Tagged: A.T. Kearney, Alan Chvotkin, Alpine Energy, anaerobic digestion, Gatineau incinerator, Gèrard Quenneville, Mayor Marc Bureau, procurement contests, waste-away technology

Posted in: Commentary, Procurement Trends, Public Sector Procurement

Are procurement contests just another way for government to pass the innovation buck to a preferred outside vendor?

August 30, 2011

The basic idea of a procurement contest — sometimes called a prize or challenge — is to set out a performance requirement for a capability that needs development work and offer a prize, usually money, for the first or best entity to produce a product or capability meeting the requirement. from the Contracting Education Academy […]

Tagged: Alan Chvotkin, Let's argue procurement. It's healthy, procurement contests, Procurement contests pooh-poohed by an unlikely source, Stan Soloway, Steve Kelman, vha, Washington Technology

Posted in: Commentary, Procurement Trends, Public Sector Procurement

Dangerous Supply Chain Myths: Talent Attraction White Paper

August 24, 2011

“A supply chain is not an abstract network driven by processes and machines, but a real network driven by people. Good supply chains run on good people. Supply Chain Success will be impossible without the right talent, which is becoming rarer every day thanks to the global talent war. Any organization that does not have […]

Tagged: A.T. Kearney, CAPS, dangerous supply chain myths, ISM, succeeding in a dynamic world: supply management in the, Talent Attraction and Retention in a Global Economy

Posted in: Commentary, Supply Chain Myths, White Papers

(Epilogue) Response to Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series telling . . . especially Part 5 on talent attraction and retention

August 23, 2011

Continuing relevancy is based more on a state of mind versus a state of time. Nowhere was this fact more evident than it was with the re-release of my 2007 series Dangerous Supply Chain Myths. Centered on my analysis of the ISM, CAPS and A.T. Kearney Succeeding in a Dynamic World report, the series was […]

Tagged: A.T. Kearney, CAPS, dangerous supply chain myths, employee retention, ISM, Succeeding in a Dynamic World, supply chain management