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🆓Vendor Survey Sprint

Apply to join a group of 10 governments to design a customized survey and outreach plan to engage suppliers! 🎯Application Deadline: April 10, 2026🎯
Date and Time
May 05—Jun 16, 2026
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2026 PEN Cohort-based Learning Opportunity

When vendors have positive experiences engaging with governments, it leads to better outcomes for the public good.

Procurement is the engine that powers communities every day and vendors are key partners in delivering the services and supports that help communities thrive. Taking the time to elevate the perspectives and surface challenges of your supplier community can help governments tactically refine their procurement and contracting process to be more efficient and inviting, achieving desired outcomes.

Apply to join this interactive, five-session sprint with up to 10 governments to develop a vendor survey and outreach plan!

Sprint Structure

Cohort Sessions

Weekly group training sessions, exploring key concepts and best practices with peer governments!

Coaching Calls

Weekly check-ins with your coach to work on deliverables, discuss roadblocks, and share ideas!

Assignments

Teams complete tactical assignments that help build final deliverables: a vendor survey & outreach plan!
Event Date
Orientation
Tue, May 5 • 3:00-4:00pm ET
Cohort Session 1
Tue, May 12 • 3:00-4:30pm ET
Cohort Session 2
Tue, May 19 • 3:00-4:30pm ET
Cohort Session 3
Tue, May 26 • 3:00-4:30pm ET
Cohort Session 4
Tue, Jun 16 • 3:00-4:30pm ET
Event materials
Promotion Flyer - Call for Applications Application Questions Preview Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Sprint Participant Testimonials

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Cohort-based learning brings together teams from various governments and agencies to develop skills, exchange insights, and apply best practices to produce a clear deliverable that addresses a core procurement challenge. Each team is represented by 2-4 staff members to support learning at scale.

Sprints are designed to be fast-paced experiences with multiple sessions built on three core components: interactive group sessions, team assignments, and coaching calls that collectively help teams refine their deliverable.

The Procurement Excellence Network is continually reimagining how we support governments in our virtual community—through interactive experiences and hands-on assistance that turn reform goals into real progress.  All participating teams will work towards a common goal: developing a solid draft of a vendor survey and outreach plan to be released after the sprint concludes. During this experience, your team will:

  • Design effective vendor survey questions using proven practices for successful survey administration;
  • Develop a tactical outreach plan to increase participation and engagement across your supplier community;
  • Examine case studies from peer governments to understand successful approaches to designing and implementing vendor surveys;
  • Explore best practices to analyze and activate survey data and communicate survey findings clearly to internal teams and external stakeholders to inform process improvements.

All Procurement Excellence Network (PEN) members are welcome to apply.  We welcome applications from a diverse spectrum of public organizations in our network including, but not limited to,  the following:

  • Any city, county, regional, metro or state government
  • Public colleges/universities
  • Public school districts
  • Transportation or utility authorities

PEN is excited to support up to 10 governments or agencies to participate in this exclusive opportunity. This sprint is a great match if you’re new to vendor surveys or if you are looking to revamp a previous survey that didn’t achieve its intended impact. 

All applicants will be notified of their selection status within 2 weeks after the application period closes. PEN plans to offer more cohort-based learning opportunities consistently in the future. Keep an eye out for future updates on other cohort-based learning experiences ahead!

To maximize the benefits of this learning opportunity, teams should be ready to invest at least  ~4-5 hours per week to achieve their goals. Participants will attend mandatory orientation, weekly group training sessions, and coaching calls. Assignments given in the group training sessions will contribute to the final deliverable, which is due before the next session. Additionally, participants should expect to spend a couple hours in independent teamwork to complete their assignments.

Coaching calls are dedicated time to workshop ideas, troubleshoot challenges and review key concepts from recent trainings to help support the development of your team’s final deliverable. In between cohort group training sessions, each participating government or agency will meet with their assigned Partners for Public Good coach weekly. These coaching sessions are mandatory and offer great value in providing a dedicated space to reflect, ideate and work collaboratively to achieve desired outcomes.

We encourage teams of 2-4 people from each government or agency to participate and collaboratively submit a single application. However, more than one application can be submitted per government or agency if there are distinctly different teams and unique vendor survey goals. 

Yes! This sprint is open to all PEN members, including any individuals or governments who may have participated in previous cohort-based learning offerings or other programming with Partners for Public Good.

  

FREE! All PEN members have exclusive access to opportunities to participate in cohort-based learning offerings. Please note, you must be a PEN member to participate in this sprint. If you are not yet a PEN member, sign-up here.

For further questions, please email PEN@partnersforpublicgood.org!