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What you’ll learn?
- Overview of the event
- Purpose of and explanation of the Federal-wide Buyers Club
- Pre-conference survey results
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Opening remarks by Anne Rung at the Inaugural Conference for Innovative Acquisitions (Federal-Wide Buyers Club).
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Opening remarks by Tom Kalil at the Inaugural Conference for Innovative Acquisitions (Federal-Wide Buyers Club).
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Opening remarks by Bryan Sivak at the Inaugural Conference for Innovative Acquisitions (Federal-Wide Buyers Club).
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What you’ll learn?
- Traci will explain the mission of the USDS, their approach, and solutions for improving digital services throughout the federal government
- She discusses…
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What you’ll learn?
- Greg explains what 18F is doing with their digital consulting practice.
- He discusses the highly-touted Agile Services BPA.
- Greg also talks about…
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What you’ll learn?
- Mark discusses the Buyers Club approach to improving ineffective and inefficient acquisition of IT services.
- He shares how HHS is testing innovative…
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What you’ll learn?
- Joanie explains the need and efforts to train acquisition professionals so they can better serve their agencies to ensure successful solicitations and acquisition…
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What you’ll learn?
- Jenn discusses prize authorities, including the America COMPETES Act and the importance of open innovation.
- She discusses critical use cases that the…
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The Federal-wide Buyers Club is being implemented to inform, inspire, and encourage the use of innovative acquisition methods necessary to successfully meet federal IT service needs, though many…