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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

How to Crack a Nut

Award criteria could generate (further) incentives for regulatory performance, perhaps beyond the minimum mandatory baseline. Relatedly, the difficulties in using award criteria to pursue regulatory goals stem from difficulties in the operationalisation of qualitative criteria in practice.

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

Opportunity #5: Public Investment in the Face of Climate Change To address the climate crisis, it is necessary to spend between 2% and 8% of GDP on the provision of infrastructure services.

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Striving for data excellence: How the Netherlands’ TenderNed is enabling procurement insights for government and public users

Open Contracting Partnership

They are also working on tools to help contracting authorities to analyze their own data, for example, to monitor the average lead time of their tenders, or decide which award criteria to use when preparing a tender.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Affecting around 4000 public buyers, the decree defines procurement as ‘green’ if it uses green criteria, recognized certificates, ecolabels or environmental management systems for no less than 50% of total procurement value. The way we think about technology is that it has to help public buyers and suppliers conduct business easier.

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Who Are the Key Players in Public Procurement?

Tracker Intelligence

It is essential in maintaining the integrity of procurement processes. Best Practices for Tendering Supplier’s main priorities should be to understand award criteria such as Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) and to prove social value.

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In Kazakhstan, opening up procurement boosts public oversight and prevents millions in wasteful spending

Open Contracting Partnership

Integrity Astana, who conducted monitoring of the National Railway Company and the central medicine procurement agency SK-Farmacia. But many buyers are still reluctant to use such complicated procedures because they’re unsure of how control agencies view the use of award criteria other than lowest price.