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<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=3"> CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2021 VOLUME 29, NO. 3 </a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=4"> PERSPECTIVES [editor's note] ponderable PROCUREME</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=5"> Conference: September 27-30, 2021 Exhibit</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=6"> HOTTOPICS [purchase planning] FIVE LESSONS PROC</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=7"> we celebrated the first hybrid vehicle in our fle</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=8"> HOTTOPICS [purchase planning] governments buy</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=9"> while others outsourced those responsibilities an</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=10"> HOTTOPICS [co-op contracts] </a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=11"> Cummins says the cooperative contract that R</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=12"> HOTTOPICS [co-op contracts] ADVICE FOR PROSPE</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=13"> </a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=14"> IN DEPTH [co-op procurement] </a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=15"> they are looking for more than just contracts. Th</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=16"> IN DEPTH [co-op procurement] services needed,</a>
<a title="Third Quarter 2021 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/4ffac86d?page=17"> Upon completing that research, the FSTF recommend</a>
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