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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

This holistic strategy—anchored in transparency, accountability, and technological integration—fosters a robust fiscal environment conducive to sustainable economic growth and enhanced public trust. This continuous data flow strengthens public trust by minimizing corruption risks and reaffirming a commitment to transparency.

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Should Bid Protest Losers Pay?

Inside Government Contracts

Many in the defense industrial base view the bid protest system as providing necessary transparency and accountability in the contracting process, including to ensure that the government follows the law and its own procedures. Section 804 seems to begin from the premise that there is a public interest in deterring bid protests.

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

European Law: Public Procurement

Reading the Evropaïki Dynamiki (ESP-ISEP) Judgment, one cannot but wonder if EU public procurement rules do not still impose an excessive degree of transparency in the debriefing of disappointed bidders. Public Procurement and the EU Competition Rules (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011) 358-9].

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Updated Procurement Policy Handbook

Scottish Government Procurement

Today marks the publication of the updated Procurement Policy Handbook, which replaces the previous Handbook published in 2008. The refresh reflects changes to the procurement policy landscape in Scotland.

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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. And despite the reforms aimed at improving accountability, perceptions of corruption in public procurement remained high.

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SeloVerde uses geospatial big data and AI/ML to monitor deforestation in supply chains, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector

It is a science-based, open-access, online system that provides transparency in deforestation-risk supply chains by integrating socioenvironmental data from federal and state databases and land-use mapping from high spatial resolution satellite imagery (e.g., post-2008 deforestation). SeloVerde 2.1 SeloVerde 2.1’s

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Implementing AI Provides Short & Long-Term Payoffs

FedInsider

Constituents must trust that their need for essential services can be met with transparency, without sacrificing their privacy and security. Employees of federal agencies seek equitable, inclusive workplaces, flexibility in where and how they work, transparent communications, and training in the latest technologies.