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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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Procurement Methods vs. Solicitation Tools: What Every Procurement Professional Needs to Know

The Procurement ClassRoom

Procurement decisions may also be influenced by emergencies, such as the need for the prompt delivery of goods and services to address disasters like earthquakes or hurricanes. The level of competition in the market can also influence the choice of procurement method. What is a Solicitation Tool?

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Modernizing Public Infrastructure: The Power of Strategic Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

Procurement as a Strategic Driver of Digital Transformation Public procurement wields immense influence over markets, technology adoption, and the direction of societal progress. The Role of AI in Procurement AI offers powerful tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and transparency in procurement processes.

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Key Principles of Public Procurement: Transparency, Value, and Fairness

Tracker Intelligence

If public sector bodies and organisations follow clear procurement regulations, they can help uphold high standards of accountability, while still achieving the best results for the general public. A transparent approach lowers procurement risk, prevents corruption, and fosters confidence between suppliers and public sector organisations.

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Ten years later, agencies still making gains on category management

Federal News Network

Everyone is acting independently, without a lot of transparency, which leads to a lot of duplication. At the Small Business Administration, BICs account for 45.6% Governmentwide, agencies avoided $16.7 billion in costs through category management in fiscal 2024, nearly 29% above their goal for the year. Governmentwide, 13.6%

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The Ukrainian DREAM: Making wartime reconstruction digital and accountable

Open Contracting Partnership

Working with the Ukrainian government, especially the Ministry and Agency for Restoration as well as our friends in the RISE Ukraine Coalition , we were delighted to unveil the demo version of a Digital Reconstruction Ecosystem for Accountable Management (DREAM) in June, to lead on making the reconstruction digitally coordinated and accountable.

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Fear and loathing in Defense IT: Time to enforce FAR conflict of interest rules and revolving door abuses

Federal News Network

To make matter worse, misapplication of Other Transaction Authority (OTA) and FAR 6-302 sole source rules has undermined transparency, and prevent fair and open competition. that prohibits SETA contractors from using their insights and influence to gain an unfair advantage or worse, commit fraud. Congress must enforce FAR 9.5