by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
Procurement officers used to trend conservative in their decision-making. Making a bad decision was to be avoided even if delays ensue. But in today’s business climate, agile procurement is taking over. Consultants like The Hackett Group now call agile procurement...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
The cutthroat competition between two Bay Area school lunch contractors reached a new low when the personal data of hundreds of schoolchildren were stolen in a bid to expose a competitor’s lack of data security. School lunches are a $14 billion a year industry and...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
Services spending will be the next procurement sector that will see tremendous changes as AI applications are poised to make an impact. Elaine Morris Roberts explains how AI can transform procurement in this report for SpendMatters: In procurement, one significant...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
The longest government shutdown in US history ended early this year. But the repercussions from the shutdown are still being felt among contractors to the US government. All contractors lost money and some lost optional extensions on their contracts. Other contractors...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
Oracle, recently disqualified from bidding for the Defense Department’s $10 billion cloud contract, is alleging that Amazon had some inside help during the bidding process. Oracle has filed suit claiming that a former high-level Defense Department employee named Deap...
by CivicMeter Staff | May 14, 2019 | Procurement
Amazon already has a deal to supply US local governments with everything from computers to toilet paper. Now, the tech giant is moving to capture federal procurement as well. Amazon’s potential dominance over government procurement has provoked consternation among...
