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Open Olympics 2026: progress and challenges

Open Contracting Partnership

Its hugely positive that 20 Italian civil society organizations came together as a coalition to push for transparency and accountability in the delivery of the Games. Spending transparency : The portal only reports initial bid values, not actual expenditures. We hoped to do this for Paris 2024 but it was not to be!].

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Was UK’s Covid PPE procurement even worse than we thought? New analysis raises more red flags

Open Contracting Partnership

Transparency International UK (TI-UK) just dropped a damning report on the UK’s pandemic-era procurement of PPE. Plenty of other countries let their professionals run the show with more transparent, better structured processes. An analysis from the Spend Network in June 2020 tells a similar story.

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Ten years later, agencies still making gains on category management

Federal News Network

Everyone is acting independently, without a lot of transparency, which leads to a lot of duplication. That figure has risen substantially since 2020, when $225 billion, or 56.4% That was the first year since 2020 when the government met the BIC spending targets OMB set for the year. In 2020, the government logged $13.2

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Ivalua Awarded Best P2P Specialist Provider at World Procurement Awards 2020

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November 10, 2020, Redwood City, CA – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management cloud solutions, today announced that it has been awarded as the Best P2P Specialist Provider by an independent panel of industry veterans at the 2020 World Procurement Awards. Ivalua also received this award in 2019.

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Ivalua Awarded Best P2P Solutions Specialist Provider at World Procurement Awards 2020

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November 10, 2020, Redwood City, CA – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management cloud solutions, today announced that it has been awarded as the Best P2P solutions Specialist Provider by an independent panel of industry veterans at the 2020 World Procurement Awards. Ivalua also received this award in 2019.

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NASA and OPM take steps to modernize astronaut applications

FedScoop

This is the second time that NASA and OPM have teamed up for the astronaut application process, the first being in 2020 when OPM reportedly assisted with a manual review of applications for NASA’s partially automated application process. For the astronaut position, OPM reported that NASA received over 12,000 applicants during the 2020 cycle.

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How was 2020 for a Bid Manager?

Tendersinfo

2020 comes to an end, and we take a look back at the bizarre range of events that the bidding community stood testimony to this year. With reports of the novel coronavirus appearing in several regions we could never imagine how it is going to impact our lives and the bidding community at large.

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