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Alteia and the World Bank assess and enhance road infrastructure data quality at scale using AWS

AWS Public Sector

Photo credit: World Bank Transport Team 2) Road infrastructures connect households to higher quality opportunities for employment, healthcare and education. Since 2002, the World Bank has constructed or rehabilitated more than 260,000 kilometers of roads, lending more for roads than for education, health, and social services combined.

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IRS seeks information as it plans to scale up its robotic processing automation program

FedScoop

Federal agencies have increasingly looked to RPA “bots” to offload basic but cumbersome processes to free humans up to focus on higher-quality work. The automations, which require basic knowledge of IRS and accounting protocols, run the gamut in terms of complexity and frequently call for coordination between multiple external systems.

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Risk of anti-competitive collusion after excessive level of transparency in public procurement debriefing?

European Law: Public Procurement

The Evropaïki Dynamiki (ESP-ISEP) Judgment has been issued on the basis of Article 100(2) of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (OJ 2002 L 248, p. 1) (‘the Financial Regulation’).

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Qualify for Wayfair’s Shop Sustainably Program

The Softly Spark

Wayfair and ESG Founded in 2002 by longtime friends Niraj Shah and Steve Conine, Wayfair is one of the largest names in online home goods. Wayfair’s Shop Sustainably filter allows customers to view products that have been certified for lower environmental impacts, responsible sourcing, air quality, and more.

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Asymmetrical Avenues for Annulment – The Continuing Controversy over the Setting Aside of Negative Jurisdictional Decisions

Kluwer Arbitration

the Court of Appeal and the Advocate-General dismissed this point, noting that the Dutch courts do not have a duty to guarantee access to international arbitration, nor a duty to assess the quality of the protection offered by state courts in other jurisdictions. In the case of Manuel Garcia Armas et al. ,

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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

One could be forgiven for simplifying the goal of procurement to ensuring that public money is well spent , which could be further elaborated (following Schooner 2002 ) to encompass promoting integrity and value for money in the award of public contracts, and acting transparently to facilitate accountability.

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Government Contracts Issues for a Recession

Procurement Notes

Bank of Boston, supra (“When risks of a future downturn increase, even with an unchanged modal path for the future course of monetary policy, there can be a ‘flight to quality’ that bids up the price of long-term Treasury bonds and lowers their yield. Thus if a recession materializes, it will be correlated with the inverted yield curve.”). [20]