The takeoff process where construction contractors extract Bill of Materials on tight schedules has traditionally been manual ...

Every client wants to know what their project is going to cost and who’s going to build it. That means sending the drawings out and getting contractors involved … Let’s get ready to rumble because ...

A biased bid selection process represents one of the biggest threats for procurement officials. Such bias leads to a bad selection decision for a government contract, wasting taxpayer money. Moreover, ...

Departments/schools can request that Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing perform a competitive bid or negotiate on their behalf. In addition to simply providing advice to departments and schools if they ...

In many sectors of industry and almost invariably in government, procurement of goods and services takes place by competitive bidding. Vendors are solicited to present a proposal to meet the ...

Departments and schools can perform a competitive bid. The following standard documents have been developed by Procurement and Payment Services (PPS) to assist departments/schools with the bid process ...

I don't make a practice of writing columns about isolated court decisions, particularly those that turn on fine points of state law, but the editors or CONTRACTOR magazine have brought to my attention ...

Responding to criticism over the Davis administration’s awarding of hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts, ...