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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

Open Contracting Partnership

Collect and publish open data on the Banks procurement for improved oversight and insight One of the key measures introduced in 2016 was the Systematic Tracking of Exchanges in Procurement (STEP) platform, which is used to collect and monitor procurement data. This limits its utility and efficiency for both the Bank and its clients.

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GSA closes in on enterprisewide software deal with Microsoft

Federal News Network

Clearly, both sides value the other as a critical partner, as demonstrated by the willing collaboration of the Governmentwide Microsoft Acquisition Strategy (GMAS) effort. Over two days, the group collaboratively concentrated the original list of terms and price reduction concepts down to 24.

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Manatee County Sheriff’s Office transforms performance management to improve service

American City & Country

As the population grows, so does the need to make processes more efficient to best serve the needs of the community and its employees. By doing so, the HR team eliminated outdated spreadsheets and paper forms, encouraged ongoing communication, and leveraged automation to enhance efficiency.

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FAR & Beyond: GSA’s TDR Expansion – The Journey Continues

Federal News Network

Over the course of the next year, GSA engaged in the public rule-making process, culminating in a 2016 final General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) rule implementing TDR for certain MAS Special Item Numbers (SINs). The TDR Journey to Date GSA first announced the “TDR Pilot” concept in 2015.

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Zara – The Benefits of Agile Procurement / Supply Chain

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On September 7th 2016, a relatively unknown person became the richest man on the planet during two days before Bill Gates reclaimed his title (recently overtaken by Jeff Bezos). Deep Collaboration: Suppliers are all close to Zara factories and collaborate tightly, so Zara can order on an everyday-need basis. .

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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

According to a monitoring report by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), there were 1,586 cases of corruption in procurement detected between 2016 and 2022, amounting to total losses to the state of around US$2.7 CSOs often collaborate in social services, but this is now collaboration with law enforcement to improve their regulation process.

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Strengthening public procurement in Africa: a conversation with Joyeuse Uwingeneye

Open Contracting Partnership

Her priorities for this one-year term as President of the APPN include fostering collaboration with international partners such as the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, and Open Contracting PartnershipPartnership, as well as bringing onboard other new regional and global partners.