Contract Insights

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.

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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.