Accountability E-procurement Procurement Team 
Open Contracting Partnership
APRIL 4, 2025
Improving public procurement, which accounts for one in every three dollars spent by governments, is one of the core ways countries can do more with the same – or less. As theOpen Contracting Partnership, we support transformational procurement reforms in over 50 countries. How can the Bank leverage this opportunity?
The Procurement ClassRoom
NOVEMBER 23, 2024
However, one critical element often overlooked in these discussions is public procurement. Far from being a mere bureaucratic task, procurement is the mechanism through which governments acquire the infrastructure and technology needed for this transformation.
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American City & Country
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.” No question, government procurement is different from acquisitions outside the public sector, Cunningham believes. Prioritize stakeholder engagement, including community input.
American City & Country
AUGUST 28, 2024
Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. Public procurement is key to this endeavor because public institutions and state enterprises must procure vast amounts of goods, services, and works to do their jobs.
ivalua
AUGUST 17, 2021
What does Procurement mean? An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis. What is Direct Procurement?
The Procurement School
AUGUST 11, 2023
Outsourcing procurement services can have an immediate effect on the efficiencies of operations. It could be unfair to compare a procurement department’s efficiencies to those of an outsourced service; however, the comparison would consider the advantages of accessing a more efficient operation provided by a 3 rd party service provider.
ivalua
MARCH 9, 2023
It is a crucial process for organizations that are looking to streamline their procurement activities, better manage spend and suppliers and increase operational efficiency. The last phase of the process, also known as Procure-to-Pay includes the ordering of goods/services, receiving of these, invoicing and payment to suppliers.
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