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Baltimore procurement bureau says backlogs are shrinking as it adopts team model and supplemental tracking
Summary
Procurement leaders said backlog and requisition counts have fallen after staff increases, process redesign and use of monday.com as a supplement to Workday; council members requested rubrics and asked to add change-order tracking to procurement metrics.
Baltimore’s Bureau of Procurement told the Budget & Appropriations Committee it has substantially reduced outstanding requisitions and is shifting to a team-based model that assigns procurement officers to specific departments.
Chief Procurement Officer Adam Manny said the bureau has restructured to allow procurement teams to learn department business cycles, increased staff training and national certification efforts, and brought key business partners into the procurement cycle earlier (including the Small, Minority & Women-Owned…
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