Purchasing Professional Services Speech in Newfoundland

Greetings from The Fairmont Hotel in St. John's Newfoundland (Canada). Over 600 purchasing professionals from the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors across North America are here for a few days exploring better ways to buy everything from forklifts to consulting services.

Which explains why I am here.

Yesterday morning I presented "RFP's And Professional Services: Finding A Better Way" and according to Sharon Ferriss the Director of Public Afairs and Communications for PMAC (Purchasing Management Association of Canada) it had the highest pre-registration of the many concurrent sessions and in the end somewhere between 120 and 150 attended the session.

Aside from some shameless self-promotion the reason I mention this is that the big crowd and post-speech inquiries and questions indicate an interest on behalf of procurement professionals in improving how they use (or even IF they should use) an RFP to select professional service providers.

So what does this mean for you?

Tell the purchasing people you know about this presentation. If they are considering improvements to their RFP processes for professional services and want to read or hear more about how to do it I'd be pleased to share my slides. And if the audio worked out the way I hope the speech will soon be available on the web or CD as well.