eCommerce Support of Procurement Models

Acuity (Consultants) Ltd Executive Interm Manager and ACUITY Director, Tony Colwell’s Blog post this week titled 5 Models for Procurement Organisation, discusses the differences in the definition between Procurement and Purchasing. It also outlines the different types of procurement models. There are three basic models for procurement, any others being a combination of these three:

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Online Shopping: Nine Benefits to the Government Buyer

As is the case with commercial shoppers, government buyers can also benefit in a number of ways from shopping online.

1. Convenience and time saving

From the Contracting Officer’s perspective – writing a general purpose contract one time and letting buyers make purchase orders against that contract saves a lot of time. A number of federal agencies have [...]