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Tab for access: How New York City is increasing participation and access to government contracts

Open Contracting Partnership

The team at the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS) have a vision for a more open, transparent and inclusive procurement process. Its important for us to be accountable to them and understand they are the end user and beneficiary of our procurement. What is the role of transparency in your approach?

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A future rebuilt in Ukraine: Ruta Kindergarten rises from the ruins of war

Open Contracting Partnership

Founded in 1984, Radist Kindergarten suffered the worst damage of any preschool in Irpin when intense shelling in 2022 reduced much of it to rubble. But Russias illegal invasion of Ukraine shattered this sense of safety for the children of Radist Kindergarten in Irpin, Kyiv Oblast.

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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. Transparency was MIA In a crisis, transparency and trust are key.

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Why Malaysia needs a new public procurement law

Open Contracting Partnership

In 2022, a new unity government was formed under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim coalition’s leadership. But at the heart of this transformation lies the principle of transparency. The strategy outlined in the NACP aimed to establish a dedicated public procurement law and revamp existing procurement practices.

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Tech issues are part of the problem — and solution — for FOIA backlog, GAO finds

FedScoop

The ever-increasing backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests for federal agencies is due in part to technological issues facing the workers charged with fulfilling them, a new Government Accountability Office report found. said in a statement.

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM).

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Court of Federal Claims asserts more jurisdiction over OTAs

Federal News Network

“Anytime that you have support for additional protest review, whether the court reaffirms or opens the door to a new jurisdiction, it will result in more transparency, accountability and oversight, even if it’s just affirming where we understood jurisdiction to stand already.” GAO says the Army spent more than $6.9