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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

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Traditional procurement approaches prioritised lowest price, which led to unintended consequences like accepting bids of lower quality, a lesser performance record or that did not adequately allow buyers to consider equity, sustainability or socio-economic objectives like creating local jobs.

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Should Bid Protest Losers Pay?

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

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Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. 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

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Striving for data excellence: How the Netherlands’ TenderNed is enabling procurement insights for government and public users

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In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. In 2022, TenderNed also turned their attention to creating better quality data for external users and making it easily accessible for researchers, journalists, and agencies.

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Three Reasons Public Sector Must Transform Grants Management NOW

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To reduce inefficiencies and fraud, grant activities are governed by several regulations including these two relatively recently enacted laws: The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) – This law expands on federal awards reporting reforms that began with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

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Maryland Department of General Services Announces eMaryland Marketplace Advantage Goes Live

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This initiative is a direct result of Governor Larry Hogan’s 2016 Commission to Modernize State Procurement, led by Lt. eMMA offers a user friendly interface that will drive transparency, quality, and compliance,” said General Services Secretary Ellington E. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford.

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The Future of Procurement Is Upon Us. Are You Ready?

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Is that information provided to Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, and Marketing—giving them the ability to see the same data in the way they need to see it so everyone has proper visibility to make good decisions? Other areas cited in the article are Innovation, Collaboration, Transparency, Information, and People.