Category management
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Jon Johnson, the director of GSA’s enterprise mobility program, said the MSCT now is looking at total cost of ownership for mobile devices and services.
November 02, 2017 -
A new OMB mandate gives agencies until Sept. 1 to come up with plans to transition their own package shipping contracts to a new contract vehicle negotiated and administered by the Defense Department.
July 27, 2017 -
In part 2 of his column about category management, IBM’s Tim Wood details how agencies can get started.
July 25, 2017 -
Tim Wood, vice president and partner for the Supply Chain Management Practice, IBM Global Business Services, details how agencies can take advantage of the concept of cognitive category management to save money and drive efficiencies.
July 24, 2017 -
Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller and DoD reporter Scott Maucione join host Roger Waldron for a wide ranging discussion of current events in the federal acquisition marketplace. June 20, 2017
June 20, 2017 -
The Homeland Security Department wants to align its procurement and technology organizations to change the culture from buying to acquisition.
June 12, 2017 -
Butch Luckie, the Air Force’s chief of IT business analytics, said the service is doing a better job capturing software and hardware asset data to help make better buying decisions.
May 11, 2017 -
Contracting trends will likely continue into the next fiscal year. The only difference will be which agencies are spending the money.
April 28, 2017 -
BirchGrove Consulting President Ray Bjorklund joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf to discuss government's category management efforts and the size, scope and complexity of the 750 billion dollar procurement market. April 18, 2017
April 21, 2017 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s ambitious plan to reorganize and restructure the government is asking agencies to consider ideas such as shared services, insourcing and outsourcing and all-but-mandating the use of existing multiple-award contracts. These concepts have real potential to change and transform agencies and their mission areas.
April 17, 2017 -
Nation Analytics founder Brian Friel and Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal business Partners, join host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the state of the contracting landscape. March 27, 2017
March 26, 2017 -
What are the opportunites and challenges facing the transition's new procurement leadership team? Find out this week when Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron on Off the Shelf. February 28, 2017
March 06, 2017 -
Small businesses growing more worried about the impact of category management on their opportunities to compete for contracts. OFPP required each category manager to submit a plan for how they will address those concerns.
March 06, 2017 -
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Products, joins host Roger Waldron on this week's Off the Shelf, discusses the state of acquisition during a presidential transition. February 7, 2017
February 07, 2017 -
Aram Mazmanian, a principal at Censeo Consulting Group, explains why category management could be the impetus to change the way the government classifies what its buys.
December 21, 2016