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Wheelie good procurement: How Mexico City halved costs and improved its bike share scheme

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In its search for commercial partners, the city needed to promote competition in a concentrated marketplace, learn more about the latest bike share technology and innovations, and provide better and expanded service at the same or lower budget.

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Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

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Just before the pandemic at the very end of 2019, we had the pleasure of meeting the organizers of the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics along with civil society and experts from Milan and Nottingham universities to discuss best practices. Spending transparency : The portal only reports initial bid values, not actual expenditures.

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European Court of Auditors publishes report on public procurement

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. (…) Also, as publication rates remain low, transparency, a key safeguard against the risk of fraud and corruption, is negatively affected. Its deadline was 18 April 2019. We also note that some of the objectives of the 2014 reform may at times go against the overarching objective of ensuring competition in public procurement.”

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Why Malaysia needs a new public procurement law

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In 2019, the then Pakatan Harapan (PH) Government introduced the National Anti-Corruption Plan 2019-2023 (NACP), a comprehensive five-year roadmap aimed to combat corruption and address critical governance challenges. But at the heart of this transformation lies the principle of transparency.

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IRS dinged by GAO for subpar documentation of AI audit models

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The IRS first piloted AI techniques for sampling tax returns in NRP audits during the 2019 filing season. It further emphasizes that documentation can offer a way for agencies to provide transparency, such as (1) what the system is for, (2) what it is not for, (3) how it was designed, and (4) what its limitations are.”

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IRS should bring back Technology Retirement Office, watchdog says

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Many of the IRS’s plans to improve transparency rely on updating the agency’s technology,” Collins wrote. “As billion in FY2023, the report explains. That uptick “will likely continue” until most of the IRS’s legacy systems are decommissioned, TIGTA said.

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ProcureCon Asia, 9th – 11th July 2019, Singapore

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The post ProcureCon Asia, 9th – 11th July 2019, Singapore appeared first on Ivalua. Daniel Koh is currently leading a team of 130 sourcing and pricing professionals globally. Louis Wong, Solutions Consultant. Kim Geck Lim, Field Marketing. For more information and to register visit the event website.