{"id":25605,"date":"2017-11-13T16:37:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/centralized-procurement-autonomy-savings\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:27:40","slug":"centralized-procurement-autonomy-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retarus.com\/blog\/en\/centralized-procurement-autonomy-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Centralized Procurement \u2014 Autonomy or Savings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\nState agencies, public higher education institutions, and other government entities purchase billions of dollars of IT services using a centralized procurement function. Like any solution, there are essential advantages while the disadvantages are few. Key to those are changes to the single entity buying for many organizations.\n\nQuestions arise if state agencies can provide the best value and meet the standard objectives, which satisfy the needs of the single entity, and yield the best return on investment for the taxpayers. Saving money and reducing costs is a mighty task for a centralized procurement model.\n
State agencies, public higher education institutions, and other government entities purchase billions of dollars of IT services using a centralized procurement function. Like any solution, there are essential advantages while the disadvantages are few. Key to those are changes to the single entity buying for many organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ret_read_more_text":"","ret_thumb_border":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3039],"tags":[84,353,354],"ret_content_type":[3075],"class_list":["post-25605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-business-compliance","tag-cloud-services","tag-naspo","tag-procurement","ret_content_type-industry-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n