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Open in app Sign In Get started Home Notifications Lists Stories -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Write 29 Followers Follow Home About Success Stories Market Insights Procurement Institute Sascha Haselmayer ·Pinned HEY MAYORS! HERE IS WHAT YOUR CITY DID FOR ENTREPRENEURS, DIVERSITY & INNOVATION. How friendly was your government to small business? Cities look to innovative solutions to face urgent issues like social cohesion, economic development, transportation and climate change. Mayors and city leaders have pledged to both innovate and buy more from small business, but are they walking the walk? To answer this, Citymart has tracked procurements in 318 cities in… Market Insights 11 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Apr 11 ABOUT CITYMART Every procurement is an opportunity! We founded Citymart in 2010 to raise the world’s expectations on city procurement. Our mission was to help city leaders treat very procurement as an opportunity: to innovate, to save money, win contracts and improve life for city workers and residents. We helped cities and businesses unlock these opportunities through high-quality methodologies, information and advice, wherever they were in the procurement process. 1 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Apr 11 CITYMART BIDSPARK IN NUMBERS Citymart BidSpark was an innovative market engagement technology and methodology to deliver transformative results. In essence, it matched procurement against a global database of hundreds of thousands of vendors using natural language processing, to trigger curated notification workflows to help potential vendors easily opt in and out of opportunities. Here are some results, in numbers. — Nashville Success Story 1 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Apr 11 MARKET INSIGHTS: LAST MILE DELIVERY The Problem Urban environments continue to be transformed by economic growth and technological advancement. The advent of online retail has led to a massive increase in deliveries in cities all over the world. In city centers, this positive development has also had negative consequences. The uptick in delivery activity has led to… Market Insights 8 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Apr 11 OPPORTUNITY REPORT: WASTE MANAGEMENT The Problem As urban centers around the world increase in population and density, the waste produced in each city has also increased. Cities regularly encounter challenges related to their ability to scale waste collection, recycling and composting. Increased interest in sustainability has led cities to wonder how waste can be effectively diverted… Market Insights 7 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Apr 11 MARKET INSIGHTS: COMMUNITY CARE The Problem The issues facing disadvantaged communities in a modern city are complex. Poverty, health, education, employment and crime are interrelated, but in many municipalities, responsibility for programs that address these issues is spread across multiple public and private stakeholders. The atomization of public services has led cities like Dallas, Texas to… Market Insights 5 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Apr 11 IN THE NEWS Aaron M. Renn, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, talks to us about re-inventing city procurement. City Procurement 1 min read IN THE NEWS Aaron M. Renn, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, talks to us about re-inventing city procurement. 34 34 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Mar 13, 2020 REVISITING ‘CONNECTED CITIES’ (2010) URGENT QUESTIONS ABOUT MEANINGFUL INNOVATION IN 20/20 10 years ago we published a handbook on technology-enabled service innovation in cities and a frustration shared across the field that meaningful things just weren’t taking off. Here is what happened to some of our key ideas. Why, have highly valued services like mobile parking, tourism, or solutions for… Cities 4 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Feb 21, 2020 HOW GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT HURTS STARTUPS This post was first published on Citymart in March 2018 by Shaun Abrahamson, Managing Partner for Urban Us. Lots of government officials want to work with startups. Lots of startup founders want to work with local governments. But very few venture capitalists want to fund startups to work with local… Startup 4 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Feb 5, 2020 HEY MAYORS! FIVE THINGS ON WHAT YOUR CITY DID FOR ENTREPRENEURS, DIVERSITY & INNOVATION IN 2019 We know almost nothing about how our city halls spend trillions of dollars every year on the services that shape our lives — like our health, education, environment, transport and culture. What we do know is that things aren’t all great — critical problems like homelessness, air quality and inequities… Cities 7 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Dec 5, 2019 HOW CITIES ARE TAKING OVER INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS Last month I had the pleasure of sharing a panel at the Global Peter Drucker Forum on “Cultivating Innovation Hotbeds” (see video) hosted by Curt Carlson together with Tony Tan, former President of Singapore, and industry leaders Young Sohn (Samsung), Patricia Neumann (IBM) and Georg Kopetz (TTTech). Long associated with… Innovation 4 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Nov 11, 2019 HEY MAYORS, WHY AREN’T YOU WOOING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS INSTEAD OF STARTUPS? For a while now I have rolled startups, small business and social entrepreneurs all into the term “startup”. It kept things simple for blogs, reports. And, the word ‘startup’ also seemed to muster more attention. But my discomfort has been growing. Unintentionally, we seem to settle in on a hierarchy… Entrepreneurship 5 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Nov 3, 2019 PITCH YOUR PROCUREMENT LIKE YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT! We have written a lot about the changing needs of cities and the importance of engaging the best partners to meet those needs. Change is accelerating transportation, economic development, climate change, social care, food systems, and digital services — to name just a few areas. How then, will we find… Innovation 4 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Nov 2, 2019 WHY YOU SHOULD READ SANTA MONICA’S FUTURE ECONOMY RFP “How can you help us tackle the economic and technological changes we face as a city in the 21st century, and what methods would you use to create a dynamic, innovative economic strategy that is reflective of our community values?” This is the question Santa Monica, California is posing in… Economic Development 2 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Nov 2, 2019 HOW TO OPEN $500BN OF CITY SPENDING TO SMALL BUSINESS City leaders everywhere: Innovation in procurement matters! Leave the narrow specifications for past solutions behind. Already today, a new generation of procurements is open to new ideas that deliver better outcomes and savings. Small businesses, start-ups, and disadvantaged businesses all shine when you give them a chance to compete for… Small Business 3 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Nov 2, 2019 WHAT MAKES THESE THREE PROCUREMENTS INNOVATIVE? We have written extensively that innovation in procurement isn’t just about new ideas, but that evidence shows that procurements open to innovation are also more open small & diverse business and start-ups. Our analysis of procurements in 280 cities, found that cities have only just begun to open up a… Public Procurement 2 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Nov 1, 2019 “DON’T TELL ME MORE, WE’RE NOT INTERESTED”. WHY THESE WORDS ARE DEADLY FOR A START-UP — AND FOR YOUR CITY. Many city leaders profess their love for start-ups and small business. It smacks of innovation, equal opportunity, job-creation and finding answers to new and future challenges. Yet, if you are a start-up, few cities have mastered the art of translating this love into predictable action. A vibrant start-up and small… Startup 5 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Nov 1, 2019 WHY PROCUREMENT INNOVATION TAUGHT US TO STACK THE CARDS FOR SMALL BUSINESS. We started out with a simple idea: every year thousands of new solutions from start-ups and urban innovators enter the market. We built data on thousands of solutions to help government buyers discover these new options through procurement, to shorten the cycle of adoption and avoid costly re-invention. What we… Public Procurement 2 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Nov 1, 2019 WHAT IS THE VALUE OF AN EXTRA BID IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT? Competition in public procurement is essential to make our cities work. Bid numbers are notoriously low in local government — averaging somewhere between 2 and 3 bids per procurement — with all too many transactions resulting in just one bid. Bid numbers are also an excellent indicator of competition, procurement… Public Procurement 10 min read -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sascha Haselmayer ·Oct 30, 2019 3 WAYS TO ENGAGE MORE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH PROCUREMENT At Citymart, we know that cities are often struggling to work with more diverse small businesses and startups. Done successfully, cities can reap the benefits of meaningful innovation, new finance models, local development, a more diverse vendor base, and learn to work with partners who are deeply invested in solving… Economic Development 3 min read Get started Sign In Innovation in Cities, Public Procurement, Government and Communities. 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