tjsmith57 Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 I have been tasked with developing a Procurement Play Book. This is something new to me that I am unfamiliar with. Is there anyone out there who has developed a PlayBook or knows of any sites I can go to to review drafts/templates etc. of a Procurement Play Book. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vern Edwards Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 What's a "procurement play book"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Mathern Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 I know just the guy that can help you out with processes, procedures, and templates that you can use. I'll send you a private message with his contact information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vern Edwards Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 What's a "procurement playbook"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel hoffman Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 What's a "procurement playbook"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apsofacto Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 I assume it explains proper tackling and various blocking schemes. I think playbooks may also be used in football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vern Edwards Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 It is interesting that someone would tell someone who is not familiar with procurement playbooks to write a procurement play book. It's like telling a kid who's being a nuisance to go play in the street. I suspect that a procurement playbook describes acquisition "plays" to run in different acquisition situations. If the situation is X, then do Y. It's an instruction book that you give to someone who otherwise wouldn't know what to do. It's something you resort to when you don't have competent people and don't know how to train them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boof Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 And with all the complications in contracting, the playbook will just lead them to make even dumber mistakes. Pick the wrong play and you get sacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vern Edwards Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 However, sacked (fired) is if you work for industry. If you work for government, maybe just benched. Or maybe not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vern Edwards Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 When I started in government I was introduced to a guy who had made a copy of every kind of standard document (D&Fs, various kinds of memos, forms, etc.) that you might ever have to prepare and put them into a big three ring binder. His motto was: Why reinvent the wheel? I'd never heard that expression before, and I'll never forget hearing it for the first time. Keeping copies of all the bureaucratic b.s. you've ever encountered, just in case you would have to produce it yourself someday -- what a concept! That's when I learned that government is not about thinking, it's about getting through it and moving on to the next routine thing. I almost quit the job that day. What thoughtful person wants to work with such a crew? But I needed to make a living. I wonder what I'd have ended up doing if I had quit. But I'm still spending my time thinking about such stuff. That's not like seeing C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. Think about it, all you young'uns... Do you want to spend your lives doing and thinking about such stuff when the great floodgates of the wonder world await? Anyone for wildlife biology? Buckarooin'? Ranger School? Walking across Borneo? The Foreign Legion? Writing about classical Greek vases in Sicily while drinking good Sicilian wine and enjoying bread and olive oil? All of the foregoing? Life is short. Are you doing what you're doing because you want to, because you need the money, or because you lack imagination? Think, and channel Peter Beard, Patrick Leigh, or Gertrude Bell. Or read about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
here_2_help Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 Thanks for the Blade Runner reference! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinaku Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 I about went batty trying to recall the reference to C-beams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vern Edwards Posted August 21, 2015 Report Share Posted August 21, 2015 I'm proud of you guys! Wasn't that a great scene! Wouldn't you like to see C-beams glittering near the Tannhauser Gate? It sounds so cool. I've decided to book a trip to Greenland and the Faroe Islands. No FAR there, but you can see the Northern Lights in September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
here_2_help Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 Vern, Given that I've spent most of the past week in Spokane I could hardly miss the reference. http://sasquan.org/ I've decided to take the wife to Oregon next April, to visit the vineyards. If you and your wife are around, we'd love to take you to dinner! H2H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vern Edwards Posted August 22, 2015 Report Share Posted August 22, 2015 We'll be here, as far as I know right now. You know how to contact me. Lots of vineyards nearby. Lots of other stuff to do as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
here_2_help Posted August 24, 2015 Report Share Posted August 24, 2015 I did some more research. There are people who take this sort of stuff seriously ... or at least seriously enough to write down a plausible explanation. I found this -- "C-beams are 'cutter beams,' a type of directed-energy weapon which slices ships apart. It's unusual to see them glitter because, like lasers, they don't generally shine at right angles to the beam path. Near the Tannhäuser Gate, however, there's a high enough concentration of interstellar hydrogen that a small portion of the beam will scatter so that an observer can see the beam path." Essentially then, the replicant was describing a space battle. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apsofacto Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 I always figured he was talking about a space battle as he was manufactured for that purpose. I need to see that movie again . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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