Is your team currently selling to the Canada public marketplace? Or exploring Canada as a future sales territory for your teams? Deltek, an educational partner with NCPP, just held an incredible webinar with great stats and insights. Check out their materials on Deltek's site.

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FOCUS has released the 2021 Election Preview Report, which takes a look around the country at the upcoming state legislative, gubernatorial and attorneys general election. Also included is a document containing a list of all ballot measures that will be voted on. Click the following links to access these documents: 2021 Election Preview Report | 2021 Ballot Measures

Navigating the maze of selling to government can be an ever-changing landscape. Simple questions such as "what is the appropriate level of follow-up?" or "how and when do I introduce our cooperative contract into the discussion?" are a couple top questions that we often hear. To support companies who sell to government, NCPP partnered with Oregon State University Supply Chain and Logistics Management program to produce a 12 hour, 4-part series focused toward government sales teams. Led by current and former state and local procurement managers, topics such as:

Good news for NCPP members! From this series, the best ideas, along with real takeaways, were compiled into a special one-hour segment for NCPP Partners. This can be virtually shared at your next team meeting, government sales training session or for new employees just joining your teams. This segment is offered free, as an additional NCPP membership benefit!

As this is exclusive to NCPP members, a log-in will be required to access the session. If you don't remember your NCPP log-in, simply email Clair Steil, NCPP Membership Coordinator.

Any good Association reaches out regularly to its members to gain feedback and their satisfaction levels with provided services. For NCPP, our annual member survey was just distributed to both our Supplier and Public Procurement members.

Below is a high level overview of the Supplier survey results received to date:

If you were a member who took the time to complete the survey, thank you for sharing your opinions. If you missed the survey, we would still love to hear from you; please email us for a direct link to be sent. The survey results will be shared at our upcoming NCPP Board strategic planning session for 2022. Many of our best ideas come from our members!