Federal officials and industry executives have proposed that agencies create vendor management offices to maintain close scrutiny of contractors and the quality of their work.

How will your vendor management group do more for the business in the next few years? Consider this expert advice from Forrester Research.

Combining information technology savvy with legal and procurement expertise in a vendor management office can yield both better deals from vendors and strong relationships with them.

Over the past few years, many companies have taken the first steps in setting up an IT Vendor Management Office (VMO), but many are still very much in the early stages of refining what exactly the ...

Typically, the role of an enterprise vendor management office is performed by the procurement department, which tends to be reactive and transactional, only looking at the microenvironment of IT ...

Effective vendor management could be considered as important as any internal technology, service management, or program management capability.

What’s needed is a more formal vendor management effort and, in many instances, a dedicated vendor management office (VMO). In fact, many firms are building VMOs.

Acquisition OMB’s IT Vendor Management Office will help agencies buy AI The next evolution in category management has a big role to play in helping agencies understand emerging technology markets.

Remind them at the hourly rate you are paying for professionals, any back-office “project management” from vendors should already be embedded in professional fees.

Australian organisations’ growing reliance on technology outsourcers has given rise to a new unit within firms that are doing this the best: the Vendor Management Office (VMO). In recent years ...