5 ways to increase Procurement’s impact
As a public procurement leader, you’re working hard with limited resources, but your team’s workload can only stretch so far. Here are five ways to make an impact – without adding more work for your team.
Running a complex RFP can cost over $17,000 in staff time. By piggybacking on existing contracts, you can reduce costs and get what your end users need faster.
Not sure when to run an RFP versus piggyback? Pavilion’s Cost to Procure calculator, developed with NCPP, helps your team quickly estimate administrative costs and make smarter decisions.
Make it easy for your team to access cooperative contracts, conduct due diligence, and get quotes. Pavilion lets your team search 100,000+ contracts (from cooperatives, states, and local entities) and contact suppliers for quotes all in one place. We’ll even follow up on your behalf to get you faster supplier responses.
No supplier in mind yet? Share your needs, and Pavilion will help you get 3 quotes in 48 hours from qualified suppliers.
Take it further by adding Pavilion’s search bar to your intranet or website. If you’re using OpenGov or Bonfire, your team can search directly from those platforms, too.
Many departments don’t know what cooperative procurement is – or might even think it’s not legal. Pavilion’s customizable training materials explain how cooperative procurement works and how departments can partner with your team.
Help end users easily understand your cooperative procurement policies and find compliant suppliers on their own. With Pavilion, you can embed policy reminders into the search experience, and customize search results to prioritize contracts from your entity’s preferred cooperatives, states, or local entities.
Make sure nobody misses a contract they should be using. By adding your entity’s contracts to Pavilion, you help your team and departments find them faster, and help other entities piggyback on them, too. For example, Alief ISD added their contracts to Pavilion and are using Pavilion’s powerful search to help campuses quickly access the right contracts directly from their purchasing webpage.
Procurement is central to helping your entity deliver on strategic and operational goals. With Pavilion, you can help your team work smarter and make a bigger impact.
