Center for Procurement Excellence

06/15/2026

📣 Protests can derail your project — and many are totally avoidable.
This month on The RFP Doctor, we cover how to design protest-proof evaluations and keep your procurement on track.
📅 June 18, 2026
⏰ 12 PM CT
🎥 Replay Available Now: [Insert Link]


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06/10/2026

🚨 Want to avoid a protest before it becomes a full-blown procurement horror story? 👻📄

Protests don’t just drain budgets—they eat up time, trust, and patience. The good news? Most are preventable.

Join Dr. John Savicky as he reveals how to:
✅ Build evaluation criteria that can withstand scrutiny
✅ Create a fair, transparent evaluation process
✅ Conduct debriefs with confidence (and fewer awkward surprises)
✅ Defend your award decision when the stakes are high

Because the best protest is the one that never gets filed. 💥

Stop crossing your fingers and start building a process that holds up under pressure.

😎📑⚖️

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05/13/2026

⚠️ Your next IT disaster may already be in the contract.
This month, The RFP Doctor shows how to fix the paper problem in technology procurements. Don’t pay for words — demand outcomes.
📅 May 21, 2026
⏰ 12 PM CT
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04/29/2026

A strong IT procurement process goes beyond selecting the best software—it’s about finding the right solution for your organization’s needs. Avoiding common RFP mistakes, such as unclear project goals and overly complex evaluations, leads to better vendor selection and smoother implementation. Learn how to structure your RFP for long-term IT success.

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04/13/2026

🚧 Quick question: Do you actually know who’s building your project?

Because it’s probably not the contractor you hired.

Most of the work is done by subcontractors and suppliers—yet they’re often the least evaluated part of the RFP process. And that’s exactly where risk loves to hide.

Join us on April 16 at Noon (CT) for this eye-opening webinar from the Center for Procurement Excellence. Dr. Brian Lines and Dr. Jake Smithwick will show you how to uncover the real team behind your project—before it’s too late.

👀 If you’ve ever been surprised by who showed up on your job site… this is for you.

👉 Don’t award blind. See the full supply chain.

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04/01/2026

🚧 Fun fact: The contractor you hired probably isn’t doing the work.

Yep. The name on the contract? Mostly managing.
The actual work? Subcontractors and suppliers you barely evaluated… if at all.

And we’re all just hoping that turns out fine? Bold strategy.

This is where projects go off the rails—delays, cost overruns, finger-pointing—because the real team was never truly vetted during the RFP.

In this session, Dr. Jake Smithwick shows you how to stop awarding projects like a leap of faith and start seeing the entire supply chain before it’s too late.

👀 Because “we assumed they had it handled” is not a risk management plan.

👉 If you’ve ever been surprised by who showed up on your job site… this one’s for you.


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