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Procurement Risks When Your Senior Buyer Retires

Posted: 10/19/2026

WEBINAR: October 21, 2026, 9:00AM - 10:00AM PT

This free webinar explores the five risks your agency faces the day a senior buyer leaves. 

Your most experienced buyer knows why that vendor was disqualified in 2023. They know which department splits requests to stay under the threshold, and that the sole-source renewal for the radio system is due in March. None of it is wrong. All of it was handled correctly. But most of it lives in one person’s memory, inbox, or desktop folder.

That works until they give notice. Two weeks isn’t enough time to write down twenty years of judgment, and a binder of procedures doesn’t hold "the why". And gaps usually show up later: a protest on an award, an auditor investigating sole-source justification, or a renewal lapsing because the reminder was on their calendar. By then it’s too late to ask them.

Hosted by OpenGov, presenters cover where these risks hide in your current process, what it looks like when one surfaces, and why documentation alone won’t mitigate it. You’ll leave with a self-assessment you can run on your team BEFORE anyone gives notice.

Learning Objectives:

  • Where your team’s institutional knowledge lives & which parts carry the most risk
  • What a protester, auditor, or records request will ask for after your senior buyer leaves
  • Why documentation projects don’t close the gap, & what does
  • How to find your single points of failure before the next retirement


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This Event is Free

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