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Ten years later, agencies still making gains on category management

Federal News Network

Source: Governmentwide Category Management Dashboard via General Services Administration Thats a far cry from where things stood in 2014, when it was more of a norm for multiple federal agencies to have similar contracts for identical purchases, sometimes from the same vendor and sometimes without realizing it. Governmentwide, 13.6%

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

Both the European Union ( Directive 2014/24/EU , Art. One solution would be to bring Article 10 into line with Article 43 of EU Directive 2014/24/EU , to ensure that eco-labels: (a) concern only “criteria which are linked to the subject-matter of the contract and are appropriate to define characteristics.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

Procurement thus heavily influences the interaction between the State’s contractual agents and citizens, and becomes a tool for the regulation of public service delivery. This relates to discussions in other areas and to the broader expectation that procurement can be a trend setter and influence industry practice and standards.

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Mongolia: Investment Related Developments in the Mining Sector

Kluwer Arbitration

However, the tribunal did find that Mongolia breached the fair and equitable treatment protection in the BIT by taking ownership of the gold, exporting it abroad for refining, and depositing it or its value in an unallocated account in England to increase the country’s currency reserves. In 2020, the mining sector accounted for 21.6%

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Friday Flash 11/01/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

While the Memo is directed at agencies and does not impose new requirements on contractors directly, those providing AI products and services could soon see it influence contract requirements, source selection evaluation criteria, and contract terms. James Peake , M.D.,

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A missed opportunity to provide meaningful clarification on state aid analysis of procurement compliance and some problematic ‘obiter dicta’ (C-28/23)

How to Crack a Nut

This part of the dispute concerned the definition of ‘public works contracts’ under Directive 2014/24/EU (issue 1). Framing: Directive 2004/18/EC, Directive 2014/24/EU, or it does not matter? This part of the dispute thus concerns the effect of State aid decisions relating to aid packages with a procurement element (issue 2).

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A Homeland Security effort to combine requirements has stalled

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But the Council doesn’t meet very often and no one at the top seems to pay any attention, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). It was formed in relation to a GAO recommendation back in 2014. Actually, it goes even further back than 2014. Travis Masters Yeah, that’s right, Tom. Tom Temin Right.