VWV

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The procurement regime is changing on 24 February 2025. New mandatory transparency notice and standstill period prior to award. Increased transparency throughout the lifecycle of a procurement and related contract. Here are some key facts and figures you need to know about the Procurement Act 2023.

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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

With the Procurement Act 2023 set to go live on 24 February 2025, the Cabinet Office has been releasing guidance notes to help both contracting authorities and suppliers prepare. While the Act mandates transparency, it does not override data protection obligations. details of connected persons).

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At 2 am on Saturday morning, the day after the 10th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) was meant to end in Atlanta, exhausted negotiators finally adopted a resolution on “ Promoting transparency and integrity in public procurement in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ”.

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 26, 2024

On April 4, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on the Budget, wrote a letter to Gary Gensler , the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), expressing concerns about delays and lack of transparency in the agency’s whistleblower compensation.

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FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

As the IRS’s Direct File pilot approaches the end of its 2024 runway, a new watchdog report finds that the tax agency’s cost estimates for the program were incomplete and would need “a comprehensive accounting” ahead of a potential takeoff in 2025. We found this as well.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JULY 19, 2024

The directory is a gateway to all those we receive, all in one place, and will help make retention use in Scotland more transparent for public bodies and contactors alike. The directory will also contain links to contracting authorities’ published retention policy compliance statements from 20 February 2025.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 26, 2025

To celebrate our 25th anniversary in 2025, we’re spotlighting 25 pivotal moments that reshaped the way the government operates. Everyone is acting independently, without a lot of transparency, which leads to a lot of duplication. Governmentwide, agencies avoided $16.7

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The Softly Spark

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Sustainability Certific ations support sustainability claims and promote transparency for your product. For example, EWG Verified screens products against its standards, which includes their list of unacceptable and restricted chemicals, ensuring that companies are transparent about their ingredient disclosures.

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Inside Government Contracts

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many in the defense industrial base view the bid protest system as providing necessary transparency and accountability in the contracting process, including to ensure that the government follows the law and its own procedures. Section 804 seems to begin from the premise that there is a public interest in deterring bid protests.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes. There was a clear political agenda to digitize the process.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 6, 2024

This targeted approach offers clearer accountability, enhanced transparency, simplified risk assessment, and focused testing procedures. Transparency and explainability AWS AI Service Cards provide transparency on the intended use cases, limitations, and responsible AI design choices for AWS AI services.

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Government Contracts & Global Trade

AUGUST 21, 2024

These rules are the result of the Election Transparency Act enacted by Gov. The amounts candidates and political committees can accept for 2025 elections and beyond are included in the proposed rules and vary by contributor type. Candidates designated for a 2025 election and beyond can receive the higher limits.)

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VWV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) introduces a range of reforms aimed at simplifying and enhancing transparency in the procurement process, which should be good news for suppliers. The Act was initially set to go live on 28 October 2024, but this has now been delayed to 24 February 2025. When does the Procurement Act take effect?

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Government Contracts & Global Trade

AUGUST 6, 2024

Massachusetts recently joined the growing wave of states to pass laws requiring employers to disclose certain salary and pay information following Governor Maura Healey’s signing on July 31, 2024 of the Act Relative to Salary Range Transparency (the Act).

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As part of its AI Action Plan , New York City has announced that it is starting work to develop its own model clauses for AI procurement (to be completed in 2025). The issue of transparency is similarly problematic in its more general treatment under another specific clause (C4.6), which also only has a ‘pro-customer’ version: C4.6

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

San Francisco has pledged to install 33 speed safety cameras on streets with a history of speeding and severe or fatal crashes, while the city has lowered speed limits in 56 corridors over 43 street miles, with 17 additional corridors planned by September 2024 and more in 2025. Be transparent and proactive with the public.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Limited transparency during the procurement package design and contract awards process often means that smaller suppliers are disadvantaged compared to well-established companies with prior knowledge and resources to navigate the system.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Join us at the Fall Training Conference, Nov 20 – 21 The 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. Requests for transparent pricing across the AI lifecycle.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

This is important indeed, but enhanced transparency risks aggravating issues, especially when complex. Under Procedural Order No 3 on transparency, which again arose out of considerable disputation among the parties, hearings will be open to the public and so will the transcript (after redaction of confidential information).

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Import and Trade Remedies

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This move, announced in 2022, seeks to ensure transparency and legal certainty, and supports compliance and uniformity in customs valuation. These new rules will apply from 1 December 2027 – a notable delay from the originally planned 1 December 2025.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

20-21 The 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. The Army has set aside $26 million for NCODE for both fiscal years 2025 and 2026. is less than one month away!

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 14, 2024

For the public sector, a transparent and stakeholder-focused sustainability strategy leads to an increased likelihood of citizen behavioural change, with resulting societal benefits. The main takeaway is that sustainability transformation takes time – but every step along the journey can be meaningful.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

Responsible AI mitigating the risks Organizations that use generative AI must build responsible AI systems that are fair, explainable, robust, secure, transparent, and safeguard privacy. Good governance is fundamental for responsible systems. It’s important to be able to justify how these process-support systems arrived at choices.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 28, 2024

The path forward necessitates thoughtful policy frameworks combined with cutting-edge technologies to enable security, transparency, and control of health data. The EHDS can pave the way for EU citizens and institutions to benefit from transformative, ethical uses of health data, advancing care, research, and understanding of disease.

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Extract Systems

JANUARY 30, 2024

The two remaining county groups will go-live in the summer and fall of this year and the final set of counties will go-live in 2025. The big benefits that the state will see from this switch include greater access, transparency, and efficiency.

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Select GCR

MARCH 4, 2025

FY 2025 forecasts predict a diverse array of federal contracts totaling over $27.3 Providing a transparent pricing structure, detailing what the client is paying for, avoids hidden costs. Identifying Contracting Opportunities Identifying the right contracting opportunities requires more than just browsing government websites.

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ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

Niul Burton wrote a great article in Industry Week titled “Procurement 2025: 10 Challenges that Will Transform Global Sourcing”. By 2025, many Directors will be Millennials and will drive to find renewable disposition and consumption approaches to resources while balancing ways to drive revenue. Sustainability.

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The Softly Spark

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It is imperative that brands craft a compelling sustainability narrative that is both clear and transparent. The changes won’t take place overnight— the EU Green Claims Directive will likely not be fully implemented until late 2024 or early 2025. Brands must inform consumers about the harms related to the beneficial claim.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This includes, alongside increased transparency by private actors developing frontier AI capabilities, appropriate evaluation metrics, tools for safety testing, and developing relevant public sector capability and scientific research’ (emphases added).

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VWV

AUGUST 20, 2024

For example, payment compliance notices will come into force on the go-live date whereas pipeline notices will not need to be published until April 2025. Direct Award - Whilst there are some new grounds for direct awards, the main changes relate to the process.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Coalition invites you to register for the 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ! Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. An official Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is expected before 2025.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

The vision is to go beyond supporting “just” a transparency and reporting portal to have a digital ecosystem that integrates real-time damage assessments, budgets, project planning, procurement and delivery. We estimate the Project Office will need $2 million a year in support in 2024 and 2025 and then around $1 million a year after that.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Rooney shed light on European regulation by introducing the EU’s AI Act 2023 (now in Trilogue), which is expected to come into force at the end of 2025 or 2026. AI models have been classified into five risk categories, and AI systems that have a negative impact on safety or fundamental rights will be designated as high risk.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The New Law will take effect 180 days after its publication, on or around 7 February 2025. With its emphasis on transparency, fairness, and inclusivity, the law aims to attract both regional and international investors. (M/19) Investment Law 2024-1446 (New Law), replacing the foreign investment law from Royal Decree No. (M/1)

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Register for the Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? The Coalition invites you to register for the 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ! The Coalition expects this rule to be in effect sometime during the first half of 2025. Don’t Miss Out!

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A long-term action plan was also created, with milestones set for strengthening the legal mandate for green procurement, further professionalizing the process, and introducing new tools into the e-procurement system that will facilitate greener procurement choices by 2025.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is now recognised as vital to the public sector with the government stating that one-third of all procurement pounds must go to SMEs by 2025. Adding functionality that let boroughs be more transparent about their IT requirements and existing technology partnerships is useful to both SMEs and other local authorities.

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