Dare to Evolve – Registration is now open for Evolve 2012!
Come learn how with a purpose driven approach you can take your ordinary procurement processes and transition into strategic practices that eradicate waste and bring value to every dollar spent.
Evolve will cover industry best practices and include training from respected procurement industry thought leaders. The conference offers opportunities to network and problem solve with peers and partners. Purchasing professionals nationwide will collaborate on procurement obstacles and successes, discuss cutting edge trends, and explore the future of procurement.
Become a leader in public sector procurement and be a force behind the change to make a difference in government spending. Come Evolve.
The conference will take place in Austin, TX from April 10-11that the Historic Driskill Hotel. Visit evolve.periscopeholdings.com to register and for more information.
Make sure you register before February 20th for the early bird rate. Final agenda and keynote speaker coming soon!
Periscope now has the 2012 updates available for the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) crosswalk. License it today. Contact dhail@nigp.com for more information.
Spend Matters, a publication dedicated to gaining insight into Spend Management, recognizes Periscope Holdings in their Yearly Round-up: Part 4 Post
“This last quarter began with Gartner’s eProcurement report, which rated 32 P2P technology firms against a set of 11 criteria. The report showed strong performances from the likes of Coupa and Periscope Holdings, who shared the highest aggregate score between them…” Read article
The City of New Orleans saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by rolling out BuySpeed’s Contract Management. Previously, New Orleans used a homegrown Electronic Contract Routing System that failed to meet the City’s needs. Rather than spending a fortune to recreate the wheel, the City’s Service and Innovation Team realized functionality within their eProcurement system BuySpeed that could solve their problems at a fraction of the cost.
Andy Kopplin, New Orleans’ Chief Administrative Officer, addressed City Council during a 2012 budget presentation on October 17th and said, “We spent well over $1 million in the prior administration building a customized software program to track contracts. Unfortunately, when we performed our contracting process, the software didn’t serve us well in terms of managing that new process. We looked at rewriting that program, and it was going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Instead, folks from the innovations team looked at an existing program we used called BuySpeed. It turns out it has a contract tracking process with it. And for $63,000 we started using an existing component of BuySpeed that we’ve had for the last ten years that we’ve not implemented to track contracts. So that’s just one example of the kind of savings this team has produced for us.”
Start saving your agency money by implementing BuySpeed eProcurement or by expanding your current BuySpeed functionality.
In the October/November 2011 issue of GoPro magazine, Arizona received accolades for its Statewide hosted eProcurement system.
According to the cover story titled, ProcureAZ Unifies Purchasing in Arizona, “ProcureAZ has created a true “one-stop-shop” for procurement in Arizona with implementation of a statewide gateway that has the potential to centralize public sector purchasing for all of Arizona. The state expects the new software system to generate between 5 and 20 percent in savings on the $6 billion state spend, with savings created at the state and local levels.”
Jean A. Clark, Arizona’s State Procurement Administrator said, “We are seeing the benefits at the state level, and interest is growing at the local level.” Arizona paid for a statewide license of the BuySpeed eProcurement software, which is available via a hosted website and can be used by any local government in Arizona.
The system has helped Arizona achieve the following:
- More vendor competition (over 20,000 registered vendors)
- More small business participation
- Lower costs (30% cost reduction on the statewide office supply contract)
- More efficiency
- Decrease cycle times by about 50%
- Increase coop participation by 51%
Over 550 local governments in Arizona currently access ProcureAZ to research state contract information. Local governments are experiencing the benefits of leveraging ProcureAZ to buy off of state contracts. Other local governments who may not otherwise have the funds to implement an eProcurement system are realizing the opportunity to employ ProcureAZ’s full eProcurement capabilities.
