Public Procurement Change Agents

Five For Friday - April 11th Readout

Dustin Lanier, CPPO

Dustin Lanier reviews the curated procurement and public sector news of the week in audio, and also with links at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-lanier-cppo/
Public Procurement Change Agents
Five For Friday - April 11th Readout

SPEAKER_00:

It's Five Friday on April 11th. I create out five things every Friday for people interested in public sector operations in general and public procurement specifically. And from time to time, I record an audio companion, which is what you are listening to now. So first, NIGP is hosting a webinar on April 16th at 2 Eastern on how tariffs are affecting public procurement. With suppliers planning for future cost models, we may see increased prices or vendors opting out of bidding entirely, so it's time to be proactive. Mike Beavis will explore how procurement leaders can prepare for escalating risk and uncertainty. Second, Nazbo, which is the budget officers, highlights a variety of tax proposals from governors across the country in the 2026 budgets. Nazbo always provides great insights into the state trends on shifting financial priorities. Third, Daniel Maslow shares an OMB memorandum about acquisition of artificial intelligence in government. Along with his observations, he focuses on the push to favor domestically developed AI systems and barring procurement of systems that fail basic safety and rights standards. Fourth, Barrett& Green look at the recent Pennsylvania update on outcomes from their Pilot AI program, which enables employees to use AI in a secure and authorized skill-up environment. This is the way. And finally, Rebecca Montano-Smith of NASPO, which is the State Procurement Officer's shares an article on strategies to build more resilient supply chains, reflecting on the evolving nature of sourcing and the real-world steps that states are taking to mitigate disruption. This week we were at the Alliance for Innovations Transforming Local Government Conference and spent a couple days talking with innovators across all the core functions of local government. It was interesting learning about all of their experiments and talking about the fact that procurement underlies the ability to execute on almost all of that. So if you're interested in innovation you need to be interested in procurement and we'll talk more about that theme in weeks to come. And with that have a happy Friday.