Category management

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GSA’s Symphony tool is music to vendors, agency customers’ ears

Tiffany Hixson, the assistant commissioner for the Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories in the General Services Administration’s…

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Commerce’s CATTS procurement exemplifies all that’s wrong with federal small business contracting

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Contraction of small business contractors: What’s prompting the drop?

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How the Federal Acquisition Security Council will tackle supply chain risk management

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OFPP’s Wooten pressing the levers to change the tools, rules, talent pools of federal procurement

Dr. Michael Wooten, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said he is preparing the workforce for a future where robotics process…

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Navigating the changes in federal acquisition

This week on Amtower Off Center, Joshua Frank, managing partner of RSM Federal joins host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion of consolidated schedules,…

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Army saved more than $1B through category management, and it’s just a start

Rebecca Weirick, the executive director of the Services Acquisition Office of in the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement, said category management helped the service save almost 10% on contracts that was put toward readiness and modernization in 2019.

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