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Supplier Diversity: From Checking-the-Box to a C-Suite Strategy

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These behaviors are commercially advantageous, increasing competition to directly improve quality, drive down costs, and improve project ROI. In addition, diverse suppliers can improve their own supplier resilience, proving they are agile and can “turn on a dime” when it comes to responsiveness. Agile Procurement in Canada.

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

European Law: Public Procurement

However, a ‘twin’ provision can be found in Article 41 of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts (OJ 2004 L 134, p.

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Fair-trade coffee and tea under the procurement directive

European Law: Public Procurement

Can public authorities procure fair trade products, or are they debarred from specifically referring to the fair trade qualities of those products under the public procurement directive (directive 2004/18/EC)? Qualities relating to the production stage of products (including fair trade conditions!) Netherlands.

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Moving Customers to the Front of the Digital Transformation Line

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Marine Corps from 1999-2007 as a non-commissioned officer and infantry unit leader, including one combat tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2004-2005 and Operation Natural Fire in the Republic of Kenya in 2006. John is a native Texan who served honorably in the U.S.

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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

Early reformers in this first revolution were Ethiopia (2005), Ghana (2005), Kenya (2007), Tanzania (2004), Uganda (2003), and Zambia (2006). In addition, price overruns continued to plague procurement outcomes, as well as poor contract execution, manifested through poor quality works and delays.

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What Limits Does German Law Impose on Externally Determined Arbitration Agreements in Sports and Commercial Arbitration?

Kluwer Arbitration

Like the ECtHR, the Court found that the 2004 CAS Code of Sports-related Arbitration (“CAS Code”) violates the principle of publicity. In this regard, the number of people on the list of arbitrators is no indication of their independence, quantity is no substitute for quality. In provision R57 para.

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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]