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

Open Contracting Partnership

Open contracting approach: Supported by OCP’s Lift Impact accelerator program from 2021, Ekiti State’s public procurement agency created better opportunities for small businesses and particularly women-led businesses, to participate in public contracts. To realize that vision, in 2021, EKBPP joined OCP’s Lift accelerator program.

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DoD is Making its List, and Checking it Twice: DoD Updates 1260H Chinese Military Companies List

Government Contracts Legal Forum

On January 31, 2024, the Department of Defense (DoD) updated the 1260H List of entities identified as “Chinese military companies” operating in the United States, as it is required to do at least annually by Section 1260H of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2021.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

Introduction From up close, public procurement law can be seen as the set of mostly procedural rules controlling the way in which the public sector buys goods, services, and works from the market. Commentary on Directive 2014/24/EU (Edward Elgar 2021). Public Procurement I.

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The Key Pillars of Third-Party Risk Management

ivalua

In Q3 2021, The Hackett Group conducted a comprehensive performance study of third-party risk management across a wide demographic of companies. The results were segmented to isolate perspectives for both manufacturing and services-based organizations, here we’ll focus on the later. .

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Direct Awards of PPE Contracts - What Lessons Can Be Learnt?

VWV

The NAO investigation into government procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic, commissioned as a result of the enormous volumes of goods, services and works procured during the first lockdown with extreme urgency, makes uncomfortable reading. How Have These Rules Been Applied In Practice? Alternatively, please complete the form below.

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Advances in the new international taxation and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

In the fourth quarter of 2021, 137 countries reached a ground-breaking agreement on the reform of international aspects of Corporate Income Tax (CIT) within the OECD-coordinated Inclusive Framework (IF) on BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting).

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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector.