To people unfamiliar, job descriptions for roles in the procurement department, like managing a supply chain for example, may sound very straightforward or even dry. While working in procurement does ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpendEdge, a global procurement intelligence advisory firm, has announced the completion of their most recent whitepaper on the role of procurement transformation in achieving ...

Sustainable sourcing is becoming increasingly important in how businesses procure goods and services, as the drive towards reducing carbon emissions and adopting more responsible business practices ...

Set asides and goals help level the small biz playing field. When discussing state supplier diversity, words matter. In the 1980s, Richmond, Virginia had a race-based “set aside” program for ...

When we write about supplier diversity models that should be scaled, adopted, and adapted, our first inclination is usually to focus on state and local governments, or innovative private sector ...

Governments around the world have become increasingly interested in fostering the social economy in order to address pressing social problems. One of the ways to do that is through their procurement ...

The second annual study reveals strong interest in online procurement across commercial, education, government, nonprofit, and health care industries, along with increased focus on corporate social ...

The outline of President Biden’s fiscal 2022 federal budget proposal released Friday shows how the administration hopes to use federal procurement to fight climate change, support small and ...

A new Partnership for Public Service report identified specific case studies across the federal procurement community that modeled collaboration and could advance White House policies on equity, ...

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently launched two resources for federal agencies to advance equity in procurement: the ...

The remaining 20 percent of the dollars in a performance-based contract can be exempt from these requirements, according to a council official. "We are trying to allow agencies to get credit for doing ...

BATON ROUGE — The Gaming Control Board announced Thursday that it would ask three riverboat casinos in Northwest Louisiana to explain their consistent failures to meet voluntary minority procurement ...