{"id":2860,"date":"2010-04-01T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/04\/01\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T12:20:00","slug":"is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There Truly Transparency in Government Contracting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps a little inspired by my post from last Friday, Jon Hansen of Procurement Insights and the PI Window on Business show on Blog Talk Radio delved into the topic of transparency in government contracting on his show last week. If you have any interest in government contracting or the differences between public and private sector purchasing, I recommend you give the show a listen. You can find it at:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/individuals\/membership\/\">Become a member<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0of one of the world\u2019s largest procurement associations today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Recommended Reading<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li4\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span class=\"s4\">Contract Review Checklist<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Contract Termination Letter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Eliminating the Pain Out of Contract Management<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li5\"><span class=\"s5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Is Contract Management a Critical Process?<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><b>NLPA Learning<\/b><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>:<\/b>\u00a0Looking for authoritative procurement templates, tools, webinars, and more? Stop trying to create resources from scratch and start taking advantage of having exactly what you need right at your fingertips in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><span class=\"s7\">NLPA Learning<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps a little inspired by my post from last Friday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,102,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-ethics","category-contract-management","category-social-responsibility"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is There Truly Transparency in Government Contracting? - Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is There Truly Transparency in Government Contracting?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Perhaps a little inspired by my post from last Friday, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-04-01T17:35:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-27T12:20:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/nlpa-images-111.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1068\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Galo Matagay\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa\"},\"headline\":\"Is There Truly Transparency in Government Contracting?\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-04-01T17:35:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-27T12:20:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/\"},\"wordCount\":146,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Business Ethics\",\"Contract Management\",\"Social Responsibility\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-there-truly-transparency-in-government-contracting\/\",\"name\":\"Is There Truly Transparency in Government Contracting? 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