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Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

But these businesses rarely take part in public procurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. It’s a “missed opportunity,” says Egghead Odewale, Director General of Ekiti State’s Bureau of Public Procurement (EKBPP).

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Cloud In Depth: Understanding the Impact of Cloud in AI, Security & More

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Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants. CART (communication access realtime translation) provides instant accessibility for all participants by delivering the spoken word as a realtime stream of text. Before joining SNG, he hosted “Government Matters” on Washington, DC’s ABC 7 from 2016 to 2021.

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Meet Central Asia’s master procurement monitors

Open Contracting Partnership

How the School of Applied Research in Public Procurement trained community leaders to dig into government contracting issues in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It inspired the creation of a free self-guided e-course on Open Contracting Basics too.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

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Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. Results : Levels of green procurement uptake across Lithuanian public institutions have increased to 94% by value and 93% by total procedures as of 1 December 2023.

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Buying local, inclusive and green: How Iowa’s capital, Des Moines, is living its values through better procurement

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Challenge : The City of Des Moines in Iowa wanted to leverage procurement to improve equity and sustainability, but knew its current procurement processes and tools were insufficient. City employees are now able to collaborate on procurement more efficiently, and better plan and track their aspirations around equity and sustainability.

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OCP Feedback Survey: Closing the books on 2023 and looking towards 2030

Open Contracting Partnership

We received an 86 out of 100, returning to the record high score we received in 2021 during our intensive COVID-19 response and recovery support. When we asked which issue areas are most important to you, we saw a deep alignment with our own increased investment in anticorruption, sustainability, and electronic procurement.

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The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) lauds NITAAC for the third year in a row

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The awards recognize excellence in sustainable procurement of EPEAT-registered products. In 2021, our products empowered the federal government to realize 3,681,150 kilowatt hours of energy savings. The more federal agencies participate, the greater the overall savings.