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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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement IT 140

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.

Government 75

Government Government Ethics Transparency 75

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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Transparency Import 45

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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Transparency Government Government Integration 52

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.

Accountability 91

Accountability Price Electronics Data 91

FedScoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Victoria Houed, director of AI policy and strategy to the undersecretary for economic affairs at the Department of Commerce, said the agency is aiming to publish that guidance by the end of the year or, if not, January 2025. Other challenges for the department include data sensitivity and transparency, Osborn said.

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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.

Public Procurement 80

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 80

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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Bidding Quality Sustainability Accountability 130

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.

Price 52

Price E-procurement Logistics Procurement 52

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.

Balance 52

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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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Supplier Transparency Negotiation Procurement 75

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.

Sustainability 81

Sustainability Data Quality Efficiency 81

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.

Procurement 52

Procurement Bidder Tender Supplier 52

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!

Price 52

Price Logistics E-procurement Contract 52

FedScoop

MAY 16, 2024

However, current processes and resource levels will not work for reviewing electronic records, including classified emails, created in the early 2000s and beyond, jeopardizing declassification reviews starting in 2025.

Management 64

Management Efficiency Transparency Collaboration 64

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.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Retail Transparency Quality 52

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.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Data Innovation Transparency 78

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.

E-procurement 52

E-procurement Logistics Budget Professional Services 52

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.

Data 85

Data Innovation Ethics Electronics 85

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!

Logistics 52

Logistics E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

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.

Transparency 52

Transparency Balance Corruption Demand 52

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.

Accountability 52

Accountability E-procurement Transparency Capacity 52

FedScoop

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A final Department of Health and Human Services rule will require developers seeking certification for health IT that employs artificial intelligence or other algorithms to meet certain transparency criteria by the end of 2024, despite calls in comments to push that deadline back.

Transparency 80

Transparency Electronics Risk Management IT 80

University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

One could be forgiven for simplifying the goal of procurement to ensuring that public money is well spent , which could be further elaborated (following Schooner 2002 ) to encompass promoting integrity and value for money in the award of public contracts, and acting transparently to facilitate accountability. At first look, s.12(1)

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Public Goods Accountability 52

Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 8, 2024

A solution that was consistently raised as key to making arbitration more welcoming to human subjectivities was to make it more transparent and predictable. Over the course of three days, the diverse group of participants engaged in lively discussions about the intersection of humanity and arbitration.

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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).

Procurement 80

Procurement Evaluation Participation Collaboration 80

Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The fundamental risks are that AI must not be biased; it must be responsible, inclusive, accurate, transparent, and deployed to meet high standards. AI is everywhere: In the cloud, PCs, Smart Phones, Gaming, Edge CPUs, etc. What are the risks? biometric identifiers: faces, irises, fingerprints, etc.)

Contract 52

Contract Networking Efficiency Innovation 52

Select GCR

JULY 16, 2024

New regulations regarding joint ventures are coming soon as there is more to discuss on the matter Bona Fide Place of Business Rule Extension The SBA extended the moratorium on the Bona Fide Place of Business rule until September 2025, providing additional time for stakeholders to adjust to potential changes.

Participation 52

Participation Government Contracts Contract Procurement 52

Select GCR

JULY 16, 2024

New regulations regarding joint ventures are coming soon as there is more to discuss on the matter Bona Fide Place of Business Rule Extension The SBA extended the moratorium on the Bona Fide Place of Business rule until September 2025, providing additional time for stakeholders to adjust to potential changes.

Participation 52

Participation Government Contracts Contract Procurement 52

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.

Supply Chain 45

Supply Chain Procurement Supplier Global Sourcing 45

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.

Tender 52

Tender Joint Procurement Supplier Procurement 52

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.

Procurement 89

Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. As of 2025, the system could establish links with additional external data sources ’ (at 2).

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Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52

Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 13, 2024

We will conduct a survey at the five-year mark to update the benchmark 2020 Australian Arbitration Survey to help track progress of evolving user needs, and will continue to be transparent about sharing data, as we did in our 2022 Reflections Report and release of case load statistics. Past interviews are available here.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Quality Import Supply Chain 52

Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 21, 2024

Set to enter into force in 2025 or 2026, the Act will seek to ensure that AI systems used in the EU are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory, and environmentally friendly. The European Parliament made further advances in 2023 with its AI Act.

Ethics 52

Ethics Electronics Efficiency Collaboration 52

The Softly Spark

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

For example a company might say, “We aim to be net zero by 2030″ or “Our goal is to use 100% recycled materials by 2025.” Be transparent about the certifications your products have obtained, and provide context for consumers to understand their significance.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Transparency Import Manufacturing 52

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

She stressed how the company’s principles for responsible AI — including accountability, inclusiveness, reliability, safety, fairness, transparency, and privacy and security — and Microsoft’s experience working with federal agencies can help agencies capitalize on AI to innovate faster and more effectively.

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Innovation Government Government Transparency 82