procurement-and-sourcing skillA
procurement-and-sourcing is agent-read markdown (skill) from cbrock84/headcount: Buys well — specifying need, running competitive sourcing, negotiating, and category strategy before a contract exists. Use this to run an RFP or vendor selection, negotiate a purchase, consolidate spend across a category, decide between single and multiple suppliers, or bring uncontrolled spending under management..
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What the file says
# Procurement and sourcing This is everything before signature: deciding what to buy, from whom, and on what terms. `operations:vendor-management` takes over afterward — performance, renewals, exit. ## Specify the need, not the product Most bad purchases are decided before any supplier is contacted, when a requirement is written as a product someone already wanted. Specify the outcome and the constraints; let suppliers propose how. Separate genuine requirements from preferences, and be honest about which is which. A requirements list that only one supplier satisfies is a purchase order with extra steps, and everyone involved knows it. Involve the people who will live with the choice. Procurement that optimizes price against a specification the users did not agree to produces a cheap thing nobody uses. ## Competition is the leverage Price is set by the credible presence of an alternative, not by negotiating skill. The single most effective act in sourcing is having a real second option — and being willing to take it. Run a fair process: same information to every bidder, same questions answered for all, scoring …
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How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/procurement-and-sourcing@git:20260916.e72e404mdr add cbrock84/headcount/procurement-and-sourcing@sha256:3f50194659e2f51ePin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
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| git:20260916.e72e404 latest | 2026-09-16 | e72e404 | 3,991 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.0757404 | 2026-09-01 | 0757404 | 3,652 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260829.4a2c133 | 2026-08-29 | 4a2c133 | 3,248 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
cbrock84/headcount · 1,664 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · branch main
API
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