Topics Related to Statewide IT Procurement

The Contract and Vendor Management Team within the Statewide IT Procurement Office has launched a new process to notify agencies of upcoming contract renewals.
The Statewide IT Procurement Office recently formed the Contract and Vendor Management Team to streamline the renewal and oversight of IT contracts across state agencies.
This improvement significantly enhances the accuracy of data in the IT procurement dashboard by preventing multiple steps from being open simultaneously.
We’re proud to announce that the Statewide IT Procurement Office has received the prestigious Achievement of Excellence in Procurement® award from the National Procurement Institute.
After a vendor responds to a sourcing event, the Statewide IT Procurement team performs a comprehensive review of the vendor’s terms and conditions document.
The NC eProcurement and Electronic Vendor Portal (eVP) are different systems.

The April 2025 Statewide IT Procurement Office webinar features the new OneForm and covers several key IT procurement initiatives including:

Recordings of new monthly IT procurement webinar series.
Training to master the eProcurement system and dashboards, understand the latest changes in delegation, policy and procedure best practices, and to be aware of key issues in IT procurement.

In this training video, James Tanzosch, N.C. Chief Statewide Procurement Officer, explains the ten-step IT procurement processes and procedures and demonstrates how these processes are managed using the eProcurement and dashboard reporting systems