Most recent Procurement news
FedScoop |
How online marketplaces can solve for compliance and transparency issues in government procurement
FedScoop Recent legislation has transformed the conversation around the power of online marketplaces to drive greater value for federal government buyers and taxpayers. What's particularly exciting about the use of online marketplaces by public sector customers ... |
Spend Matters |
What Procurement Must Do to Keep Pace with Government's Promises to Taxpayers
Spend Matters When President Trump first took office, it was clear that the new administration expected government agencies to start buying IT more like “a business.” Nearly two years later, that directive has not changed. In fact, the White House wants a technology ... |
Journal of Commerce |
Procurement Perspectives: Perception is reality in government procurement
Journal of Commerce With so much coverage in the news about government procurement coming off the rails it is hard for the public to have a good feeling about the entire process. Perceptions of the nature of the purchasing function within any large organization is still ... |
With fall approaching, innovation is in the air
FederalNewsRadio.com This column was originally published on Roger Waldron's blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author. Labor Day weekend marks the traditional end of summer, a last free weekend to kick ... |
Finland government to review public procurement laws
ComputerWeekly.com The fraud case, which rocked the civil service, is the biggest in monetary value and scale in the history of Finland's public procurement system. Those charged and under investigation by Finland's State Prosecutor's Office (SPO) include senior ... |
JD Supra (press release) |
World War II Government Procurement Contracts and CERCLA Liability
JD Supra (press release) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's July 18 ruling, in Shell Oil Company, et al., v. U.S., may have brought to an end a long-running dispute over the impact on World War II government procurement contracts on the liability of major oil ... |
PYMNTS.com |
UK Government Tech Procurers Turn To SMBs
PYMNTS.com Nearly half of the U.K. government's procurement spend on digital products and services is going to small suppliers, according to the latest data from the Minister for Implementation. Minister Oliver Dowden announced Friday (Aug. 24) that the ... |
The Business Times |
Price-quality evaluation to be default approach for govt procurement tenders
The Business Times THE government will look beyond the lowest quote and use price-and-quality evaluation instead as the default approach for public tenders, as it upgrades its procurement regime to promote innovation. But Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung, who unveiled ... |
BBC News |
A mixed bag when governments go shopping
BBC News Government procurement is not always that smart - though to its credit, Transport Scotland has been racking up a significant number of projects that have gone well. These have included the Queensferry Crossing, which opened to traffic a year ago. |
Wired.co.uk |
From the fires of revolution, Ukraine is reinventing government ...
Wired.co.uk Since the 2014 revolution, Ukrainian activists have set about using technology to prevent abuses of power – by building the world's most transparent platform for ... |