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Government Procurement: We’re Doing it Wrong.

The biggest danger in all of this is that these efforts will ultimately fail to take hold – that after a few promising prototypes and experiments, governments will revert to the time honored approach of issuing bloated RFPs through protracted, expensive processes that crowd out smaller firms with better ideas and smaller price tags.

All too often, agencies that implement innovative new practices that create efficiencies and reduce costs see the savings they generate shifted to other, less efficient areas where costs are on the rise. This is just one aspect of the standard government budgeting process that works against finding new, innovative ways for doing the business of government.

Governments need to think smaller when implementing new technology projects.

Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/state/Procurement-What-if-Were-Doing-it-Wrong.html

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