Contract Insights

As a sourcing professional, attracting diverse suppliers who meet your necessary RFx requirements can be challenging when leveraging primarily manual processes such as organizing paper-based RFPs, tracking disparate emails, filing scattered documents, and individually reviewing bids for diversity qualifications.  While you might find a suitably diverse supplier base, they may lack in other crucial requirements.  Without a suitable eSourcing software solution, sourcing a product or service that meets your diversity and functionality requirements can prove difficult.  Read on to learn how leading-edge eSourcing tools can help you optimize supplier diversity.

In the wake of unpredictable circumstances such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, your organization is more than likely allowing employees to work remotely.  No matter which relevant industry you are working in, you must be supported with a sufficient system in place for contract management, sourcing, and procurement operations.  To that end, we've assembled a list of five tips for maintaining remote contract management software process efficacy during the COVID crisis.

CobbleStone Software's newest release – Contract Insight® Enterprise Version 17.7.1 – has arrived, bringing forth new features and enhancements to improve your contract management software suite!

2021 is quickly approaching.  As such, city, state, federal, and other public agencies need to ensure that they make the most of their budgets by investing in the most up-to-date software tools for robust, streamlined, and transparent government contract management, purchasing, and sourcing for evolving industry needs.  To that end, here are six tools that can be leveraged for user-friendly, timesaving, cost-effective, and powerfully integrated government contract management, sourcing, and purchasing processes.