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Hidden Treasures of the eVA Website
Did
you know you can find current bidding opportunities,
gain access to what Virginia is buying, and find out
which businesses are selling their goods and
services to the Commonwealth
all
from one place?
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eVA
Latest News |
Excellence in Virginia Government |
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eVA
Web Site Traffic |
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"Green means eVA" |
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135
different countries
7,500 visits a day |
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e-Procurement Studies & Publications |
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Digitally Integrating
The Government Supply Chain: E-Procurement,
E-Finance and E-Logistics
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The Economic And Social Impact of Electronic
Commerce
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Other
eVA Awards |
2003 eGov Magazine's Government Services
Administration Trailblazer Award
2003 State Government Innovator Award By
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology and Accenture
to honor best practices in existing services
delivered via the Internet. Recipients were selected
from nearly 200 nominations from across the United
States
2002 Named one of the nation's "Best in Breed"
technology projects by The Center for Digital
Government
2002 Gold Award For Innovation In Technology at the
2002 annual Commonwealth of Virginia Information
Technology Symposium (COVITS)
2003 Cost Effectiveness Award from the National
Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council
2003 Cronin Gold Award for Innovations in IT from
the National Association of State Procurement
Officials (NASPO) |
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Hidden Treasures of the eVA Website |
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eVA Introduces ACP
A faster & easier way to buy |
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PEW Center Cites eVA For Cost
Savings In 50-State Report: Virginia Ranked #1 |
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Canada Looks at eVA Secrets To
e-Procurement Success |
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Hidden
Treasures of the eVA Website
Did
you know you can find current bidding opportunities,
gain access to what Virginia is buying, and find out
which businesses are selling their goods and
services to the Commonwealth
all
from one place?
eVA’s website, www.eVA.virginia.gov is a gateway to
all of this
free, public
information and more! here is so much information
and insight you can gain from the eVA website, but
you may not know where to begin...So, let’s go on a
tour, where you’ll learn where to find all of its
hidden treasures!
Where can you find a list of current solicitations
and business opportunities? eVA’s
public
posting
board, VBO(Virginia Business Opportunities), is just
a click off the homepage through the link
Solicitations, Quick Quotes &
Awards (VBO).
Say you’d like to know what’s being bought in your
local area. Well, the VBO will tell you
current and
past
opportunities with state agencies and colleges &
universities. It will also give you access to this
information for the many local governments that take
advantage of eVA’s electronic sourcing capabilities
to reach its more than 65,000 registered Vendors.
Next on our stop is eVA’s
FREE Public Reports. Want to know what Virginia is
buying, who its buying from, prices being paid and
other important information about Virginia’s
spending? eVA captures the purchasing activity of
state government and makes this data available in
the form of free, online Public Reports. eVA’s
Public Reports are easy to access, understand, and
can even be exported to Excel if you’d like to do
your own analysis. Access them from the homepage
link
Public Reports and PPEA
Opportunities.
Last on our stop, how to find out which businesses
are selling their goods and services to the
Commonwealth. eVA’s current list of registered
Vendors is truly a hidden treasure. From the
homepage, look to the bottom, right navigation under
eVA Tools.
The word “Vendor” marks the spot, or better, the
link that gives you one-click access to this
powerful database. Search by a business’ name, eVA
customer number or other key word to find a quick
profile about that company–including the commodity
codes they have listed for their account!
What a wealth of information now at your finger
tips! And all FREE and publicly accessible anywhere
you have access to www.eVA. virginia.gov.
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eVA Introduces ACP
A
faster & easier way to buy
The eVA project team is excited to announce the
immediate release of Ariba Category Procurement (ACP)
— eVA’s new collaboration tool that provides state
and local government buyers a faster, easier way to
buy services.
ACP eliminates the need for phone calls, emails and
faxes by bringing the “dialog” between a buyer and
vendor into eVA, Virginia’s electronic purchasing
system. It creates an electronic procurement file
with the full history of the sourcing and
requisition activity, resulting in a more efficient
procurement. eVA buyers can use ACP to screen and
select candidates, negotiate pay rates, determine
project scope, and more.
An additional feature of ACP is the capture of
electronic time sheets that include eVA approval
flow. Through ACP, time sheets can be completed,
submitted and approved online—creating the
opportunity to reduce paper work.
ACP is now available for immediate use in
conjunction with the state’s Temporary Labor
Services contract and the Consulting Services
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PEW Center Cites
eVA For Cost Savings In
50-State Report: Virginia Ranked #1
In
a report that evaluates how well a state serves its
citizens, Virginia ranks the highest in the country.
http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org
"Grading The States 2008" examines and measures four
key areas: money, people, infrastructure and
information. Noting that eVA was a big cost saver
for the Commonwealth, the report gave Virginia high
marks for providing management and citizens easy
access to many internet based information sites,
including information on how public funds are spent.
The report also noted eVA's ground-breaking
electronic tie-in with the federal e-procurement
system, an innovative move that gives state and
local purchasers access to federally competed supply
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eVA Awarded by GSA For Unique Federal-State Partnership
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The Coalition For Government
Procurement, (CGP),
awarded eVA the "Excellence In
Partnership Award for 2007" in the "Best
Use Of Cooperative Purchasing" category.
This category recognizes a state or
local government agency that has made
strategic use of federal schedule
contracts in support of their mission.
eVA received the award for completion of
a unique project with the federal
government's General Services
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Bob
Sievert, (center) Director of the
e-Procurement Bureau, Division of
Purchases and Supply, accepts award for
eVA's work with GSA. Bob is pictured
with, Lurita Doan (left), GSA
Administrator and Larry Allen (right),
President of the Coalition For
Government Procurement. |
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eVA and GSA
established the first "punch-out" catalog between a
state and federal e-procurement system. This
collaboration yielded a direct link for eVA buyers
to the GSA's Schedule 70, also known at Information
Technology products and services. With this
enhancement, eVA buyers can now connect directly to
GSA Advantage, the federal e-procurement system, and
make electronic purchases from GSA Schedule 70. "Punchout"
technology automatically creates the buyer's
electronic purchase order, increasing accuracy and
saving data entry time. As with other electronic
orders, eVA captures and stores purchase history in
its data warehouse.
Bob Sievert, Director of the e-Procurement Bureau,
Division of Purchases and Supply, received the award
on behalf of the eVA team.
"Everyone comes out ahead on projects like this,"
said Bob. "Our buyers get to take advantage of the
competitive federal pricing. GSA gets to optimize
the potential savings for tax payers. And the GSA
vendors get a chance at a wider customer base,
through eVA.
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