“The Health and Human Services Department is looking for someone to build an artificial intelligence tool to help the agency buy its goods and services faster and cheaper.”
“HHS on Friday called on industry to submit proposals to develop the BUYSMARTER Acquisitions system, a tool that would use artificial intelligence to analyze contract data and help procurement officials buy more efficiently. Once built, the system would help HHS identify and manage different categories of contracts, collect new orders and pick the best vendor for each one.”
“Officials aim to use the BUYSMARTER tool to break down those barriers by pulling data from each program and aggregating the information in a central “data mart,” where it could be standardized and analyzed. They specified system must also be able to connect to any third-party e-commerce platforms HHS may adopt in the future…” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS Wants to Use AI to Buy in Bulk – By Jack Corrigan, March 19, 2018. Nextgov.
