Laura Melle, on the City of Boston Office of Technology team, was assigned to support the evolving departmental procurement process, provided the background information for this story. The Office of Technology “inbeds” data oriented staff in key line departments to build support for and overcome the challenges to bringing these departments into “smart cities” status.… Read More
Procurement: Town of Arlington MA Story
Arlington is a “town” in the New England parlance of local government. It has a Board of Selectmen instead of a city council and its chief legislative body, Town Meeting meets several days each spring, to address major town issues, warrants and to pass the town budget. The Town meeting opens each season with… Read More
Procurement: Kansas City MO Story
Kathy Garman and Cedric Rowan, KCMO employees working with procurement issues (11/15), provided most of the information and insights into new ways Kansas City is acquiring technology to enable it to develop into a leading 21st century smart city. City policy in Kansas City MO is very sensitive to the “digital divide” issue. The city… Read More
Procurement: Philadelphia PA Story
Nick Susi, provided the background information for this story. Nick previously worked in the Philadelphia Office of Information and Technology (OIT) and now works in the Procurement Dept., bringing with him to procurement a greater than usual appreciation for the complexities of buying 21st century ICT and digitally enhanced hardware and infrastructure using the traditional… Read More
Procurement: City’s Pre-Procurement Pathway
(Part of a series of articles prepared by Barbara Thornton for the Smart Cities Council. The articles are intended to provide an overview to city, private, nonprofit and community based stakeholders who hope to move city operations into the 21st century but run into 19th and early 20th century procurement processes. These are the processes… Read More