Procurement is how governments get work done — from rebuilding infrastructure to modernizing technology to overhauling school curriculum. Modern procurement automates and simplifies the purchasing process while protecting taxpayer dollars and ensuring fair competition. Manual and legacy procurement processes tend to add cost, cause delay and reduce agility. In a recent survey of 138 government IT, finance and procurement decision-makers, the Center for Digital Government (CDG) gauged interest in and future plans around procurement modernization.