By Debra Fryar, on December 22nd, 2011
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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By Debra Fryar, on December 15th, 2011
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 [...]