Purchasing necessary supplies and services is a normal activity for businesses. To flourish and stay competitive, however, businesses must have a sound plan in place for the purchasing process.

Sustainable IT procurement has shifted from a nice-to-have corporate social responsibility topic to a core concern for technology leaders. For CIOs, CTOs and technology sourcing executives, ...

Governments buy a lot of stuff. Every year, one out of every three dollars governments spend goes toward purchasing something -- from photo copier ink to new vehicle fleets -- to help provide services ...

Technology has become one of the university's most significant operational investments. Over time, software and technology purchases have increasingly been made across departments using a variety of ...

Inflation, economic instability, materials and labor shortages, climate change—almost any disruption you can imagine is a pressure point that makes procurement and supply chain management ...

Welcome to Procurement Pulse, DLA Piper's bulletin for clients with an interest in developments in public procurement law. In this issue, we examine the first significant Procurement Act 2023 ...

On April 3, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued two Memoranda (Memos) regarding the use and procurement of artificial intelligence (AI) by executive federal agencies. The stated ...

Procurement involves identifying and agreeing to terms for the acquisition of goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a competitive bidding process. involving constrained decision ...

Back in 2014, Stan Garber and Alex Yakubovich set out to reinvent the request for proposals (RFP) process with the launch of Scout RFP, which provides a cloud-based sourcing solution designed to help ...

Even small purchases for your company can add up to large amounts of wasted spending. You buy equipment cheap, and it breaks overnight. Someone orders fluorescent lightbulbs when you needed LEDs.