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university holistically , so I don ’ t always want to talk about the university ’ s bottom line .” Jones has just four strategic sourcing specialists and one director able to facilitate RFPs across approximately $ 350mn of spend . “ We ’ re not going to be able to facilitate every RFP , but we try our best to partner with the departments to make sure they ’ re getting the best value , and then for the smaller ones we try to give guidance to help them run their own bids . Higher education procurement is generally pretty decentralized and we ’ re attempting to restructure that a little bit and offer some solutions university wide via website portals and internal communication , so these departments can benefit from the entire university spend .”

Jones sees procurement continuing to shift both at Drexel and in the wider business community , as it transforms

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