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Public Procurement Leaders Exchange: Impact of Technology on Category Management & Acquisition
Apr 13, 2021
Join Public Spend Forum, as well as Federal Government leaders from around the country, on April 13th, 2021 for the next session of the Public Procurement Leaders Exchange. As always, the Exchange is an open forum set in a Roundtable format where leaders and experts can hear from their peers and...
Dcode’s Best Practices: Emerging Tech Companies Considering Federal Opportunities
Jul 8, 2021
For emerging tech companies, considering the federal marketing opportunity quickly leads to an overwhelming number of questions about where to start. Here are some wise words and insights from our friends at Dcode:
Don’t do it alone: Without the expertise of those who have done it before, the...
New EU competency framework increases professionalisation in digital, innovative and green public procurement
Jan 29, 2021
ProcurCompEU is a tool designed by the European Commission to support the professionalisation of public procurement. By defining 30 key competences, it provides a common reference for public procurement professionals in the European Union and beyond. It recognises and supports public procurement...
Top Government Contracting Insights of 2020
Jan 13, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced many unprecedented challenges in the public procurement space throughout 2020. Despite these difficulties, Public Spend Forum continued to provide quality learning content in the public procurement space, summarized through this reading list for government...
Top 7 Virtual Public Spend Forum Events of 2020
Jan 5, 2021
The spread of the novel coronavirus in 2020 has proved to be a complex and costly issue for many areas of the public sector. Despite the challenges of 2020, Public Spend Forum continued to provide quality learning content in the public procurement space. Make sure that you didn’t miss any of the...
Recording: How to Complete Your Market Research Report in Minutes
Apr 2, 2020
Every activity a contracting professional does impacts the outcome they achieve, and some are more important than others. If you mail in the price estimate, you can make up for it during the evaluation. But if you skimp on market research, you put your acquisition in serious jeopardy of failing to...
Virtual Workshop Recordings – Closing the Deal: How to Win in Government Contracting
Mar 17, 2020
Close more deals. It’s what everyone wants, but how to do it?
For startups and small businesses seeking a foothold in the government market, this series teaches you how to put your company in the best possible position to be found by government buyers so you can close more deals.
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Recording: How to Conduct Government Market Research
Mar 3, 2020
Conducting market research and gathering market intelligence is a critical part of any acquisition and procurement process. It can also take a good amount of time that most procurement professionals don’t have, given the other demands of the acquisition lifecycle.
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Digital transformation of the public sector starts with controlling the supply chain
Oct 27, 2020
For a number of decades many parts of the public sector were encouraged to outsource their IT services to third parties. As a result, many of these departments are largely beholden to outsourcers for the delivery of many of their long-term goals, with digital transformation being no exception to...
CIPS and ITN Productions launch ‘Supply, Support and Sustain’
Jul 9, 2020
The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) and ITN Productions are co-creating a unique news-style content series ‘Supply, Support and Sustain,’ exploring the challenges, opportunities and innovations taking place in the changing landscape of the global procurement and supply...
Scotland’s Programme helps more businesses win Government contracts
Feb 13, 2020
Alongside the Scottish Government’s Supplier Development Programme (SDP), Moray Council’s procurement team has been holding training workshops to help local businesses secure more public sector contracts. A diverse set of businesses have attended, who said in a post-event survey that their...
How to Find Government Contractors Who Deliver Emerging Technologies
Feb 7, 2020
Let’s say you’re a government contracting professional with an opportunity to step outside the ordinary and try one of the innovative acquisition methods to procure emerging technologies.
You and your customer are excited about introducing emerging technologies into your program and there’s...