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Kimberly Meacham - 11/20/2024

MEDIA COVERAGE HOW CAN WE PROVIDE ENOUGH EV CHARGERS? Despite the growing variety of electric vehicles being produced and current customer adoption, the market is experiencing unexpected production slowdowns due to lower-than-anticipated demand. A major factor to be considered behind this unexpected slowdown in demand is the limited availability of nationwide charging infrastructure that remains […]

2020 EPEAT Purchaser Award

James - 08/11/2020

NASPO ValuePoint Announced as a Leader in Sustainable Electronics Procurement with a 2020 EPEAT Purchaser Award NASPO ValuePoint has been recognized as a 2020 EPEAT Purchaser Award winner, which celebrates leaders in sustainable electronics procurement. The award comes from the Green Electronics Council (GEC), the non-profit organization that manages the EPEAT ecolabel. EPEAT allows our […]

2018 EPEAT Purchaser Award

kate - 07/16/2018

  Sustainable Green Products & Services from Your Cooperative Together we make positive environmental impacts and energy savings.   On behalf of the state and sourcing team work, and because of your virtuous procurements NASPO ValuePoint received a 2018 EPEAT Purchaser Award for purchases of sustainable IT products at the May EPEAT Purchaser Awards Ceremony […]

Cloud and Innovation

kate - 05/30/2018

The Architecture of Innovation:  Utah’s ValuePoint Cloud Services Procurement “Collaboration is one of the best kept secrets in creativity.”  ̶̶   John Briggs, Fire in the Crucible (2000)   In 2017, the State of Utah won NASPO’s Cronin Award for Procurement Excellence for its ValuePointTM cloud solutions procurement.  The agreements cover the three cloud service models […]

Revisiting an Old Nemesis: Cost-Plus-A-Percentage-of-Cost Contracts

kate - 05/23/2018

Revisiting an Old Nemesis: Cost-Plus-A-Percentage-of-Cost Contracts   We recently had a healthy discussion in NASPO ValuePoint about an old “nemesis” of procurement professionals.  The prohibition on cost-plus-a-percentage-cost (CPPC) contracts has been a bedrock principle in federal contracting for decades and was included in the ABA Model Procurement Code (MPC) for States and Local Government’s first […]

Gold Standard In Procurement

kate - 03/12/2018

What the Gold Standard in Cooperative Procurement Means     Attaining the gold standard in cooperative procurement takes a lot of work. NASPO ValuePoint has grown to be the nation’s largest public cooperative contracting organization. And we do not take it lightly.   Keys to holding the gold standard cooperative status: Purchasing power of all 50 […]