Contract Insights

Did you miss any of our blog posts from March?  Don’t worry; we have outlined each of them for you.  Stay up-to-date with industry topics, real-world case studies, and contract management and procurement best practices by reading CobbleStone’s latest content.

Government contract management can be divided into three overarching phases: procurement and acquisition planning, the sourcing and award, and post-award contract administration.  The first two phases typically enjoy the most time, attentiveness, and financial investment.  However, the neglect of the third stage - post-award management - as a tertiary duty can leave your organization unsupported and en route toward needless compliance violations, increased risk variables, and missed opportunities.  It could be argued that the post award contract process is the most essential stage for your government organization, but it has notoriously been abandoned to insufficient visibility and a lack of allocated resources.  Read this article to learn how to face the challenges of post award contract management head on with an actionable post award contract management software solution.

Did you miss any of our blog posts from February?  Don’t worry; we have outlined each of them for you.  Stay up-to-date with industry topics, real-world case studies, and contract management and procurement best practices by reading CobbleStone’s latest content.

Registering vendors with manual processes - such as with email, disparate filing systems, and spreadsheets - can prove challenging.  Without a centralized electronic process, vendor registration bottlenecks can significantly undermine productivity.  Fortunately, leading-edge vendor management software with a centralized vendor registration portal can streamline your end-to-end vendor management workflow with optimal oversight.  Read on to learn how CobbleStone Vendor Management Software’s "wizard"-based vendor gateway registration can supercharge vendor onboarding.

Manual and disparate vendor management methods - such as those involving phone calls, emails, paper-based filing systems, and spreadsheets can prove challenging and error-prone.  Without the aid of a centralized, web-enabled process, vendor management workflow delays can stall productivity.  Thankfully, future-minded vendor management software can positively transform your process with end-to-end vendor oversight.  Read on to discover user-friendly, comprehensive, and unified vendor oversight from start to finish with CobbleStone Vendor Management Software.

CobbleStone Software's latest release – Contract Insight® Enterprise Version 17.8.0 – has arrived, delivering visionary features and enhancements to supercharge your contract management software suite!

Managing vendors with manual and disparate processes such as spreadsheets, phone calls, emails, and paper-based filing systems can prove challenging.  Without a centralized electronic process, vendor management workflow bottlenecks can significantly undermine productivity.  Fortunately, leading-edge vendor management software can enhance your processes by expediting end-to-end vendor management workflow with optimal oversight.  Read on to learn how to supercharge your vendor management processes with CobbleStone Vendor Management Software.

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.