Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. But governments’ digital transformation of their systems to better achieve these goals are at varying stages of development and maturity.

E-procurement 82

E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Transparency 82

Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 21, 2025

These investments not only mitigate vulnerabilities but also present a unique opportunity for countries to enhance economic resilience and bolster investor confidence in their capacity to navigate the challenges of a warming planet. Subscribe to our newsletter to keep yourself updated about our latest publications, blogs and events.

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Finance Sustainability Education Budget 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023. The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard.

Procurement 89

Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | Training Certificate Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly useful in applications throughout the federal government. The critical thread across roles is Program, Process and Project Management. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Accountability Consulting Leadership Collaboration 142

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This well-conceived integration involves elements such as fortified data governance, real-time monitoring and audit capabilities, and a robust identity and access management (IAM) framework based on the principle of least privilege. The internal Load Balancer is secured by a TLS/SSL certificate stored within ACM.

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ivalua

MARCH 11, 2020

Companies will face a variety of short and long-term challenges, such as balancing the effects of downward prices, output cuts, movement of demand to alternative energy sources, heavy capital investment for new capacity, complex government regulations and rising operating costs.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Both systems are mainly designed to support government users, but Dawson said the legacy DPS system relies mostly on manual, paper-based processes once work is actually handed off to moving companies. The GHC model is based on HomeSafe being able to manage the network in a way that balances the capacity.

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Integration Integrity IT Transportation 105

Federal Construction Contracting

JUNE 7, 2022

Oftentimes, contractors find it difficult to differentiate between the government’s acts taken in its sovereign capacity as opposed to those taken in its contractual capacity. The contractor countered, asserting that the government had not shown that its performance was impossible. As the Court of Claims in Jones v.

IT 59

IT Capacity Contract Balance 59

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And we think of the defense industrial base has strained in terms of capacity to manufacture what’s needed around the world and, you know, missile systems and ammunition and so forth. For more, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with attorney Justin Chiarodo, a partner at Blank Rome. Regulatory risk.

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Export Supply Chain Manufacturing Participation 108

Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We are also very pleased that we achieved one of the closest gender balances in survey responses last year, closing the gap between Men and Women from a 22% differential in 2022, to an 11% differential in 2023. Across the last five years, this puts us at an average of Net Promoter 82, exceeding our strategy cycle target of 80.

E-procurement 76

E-procurement Public Procurement Capacity Procurement 76

Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 19, 2024

Rivera”) (collectively, the “Claimants”) sought over USD 100 million from the Republic of Panama (“Panama” or the “Government”). Assessing Commercial Legitimacy The central question was whether Panama acted reasonably in a commercial capacity or engaged in illegitimate sovereign conduct.

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Corruption Balance Capacity Contract 52

FedInsider

JANUARY 11, 2024

Originally designed to thwart minor malicious codes, Security Operations Centers (SOC’s) have evolved over the last 50 years what they are today; centers that provide 24 hour protection, 365 days of the year to for key government organizations. Prior to that, Roser served as the lab’s Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Leadership 72

Leadership Networking Engineering Capacity 72

Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 17, 2024

Finally, the DoD highlighted systemic risks that may impact achieving these priorities, including an inadequate workforce and skilled workers in manufacturing and engineering careers, inadequate domestic production of key materials and production capacity, instability of procurement (e.g., View the full article

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Supply Chain Balance Capacity Manufacturing 40

Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 24, 2024

Judge Leon sided with Spain and dismissed the petition, explaining that under the Treaty of Lisbon , Spain “lacked the legal capacity to enter into agreements inconsistent with their obligations under the EU Treaties.” Government to submit its position on the issues raised in the appeal. Government, represented by the U.S.

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Balance Capacity Government Government 52

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 21, 2024

That timeline is basically unheard of in the world of large federal ID/IQ contracts, which typically take the government years to plan and award. For this contract, [Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology] Young Bang had the idea of a capacity contract on a Friday night.

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Contract Evaluation Bidding Bidder 64

Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Now they can do more capacity management. All of those are tensions that have to be balanced out as you think about aligning resources to most pressing tasks.” Hashmi said FAS employees will not change their work locations nor will they change what they do day in, day out. “By They can support the mission in a broader way.

Leadership 97

Leadership Management Capacity Import 97

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

AZDHS chose AWS for its modernization approach to simplify backup and restoration capabilities, reduce effort for capacity planning across program and case management, and improve deployment times—all of which AZDHS has realized since completing the migration. It expeditiously serves these assets from its cache repository when available.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

Fortunately, Ukraine has a world-beating open government and open data infrastructure that can be leveraged to help address that challenge: we articulated a vision for how this can be done late last year. After the launch, the systems were transferred to the balance of the state in the form of a state-owned enterprise.

Accountability 52

Accountability E-procurement Transparency Capacity 52

Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2024

As these systems begin to play a more important role, the government needs to uncover the risks associated with using artificial intelligence in procurement, and what steps need to be taken to manage these risks effectively. This will include automating technical support, which can be replaced by chatbots.

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Public Procurement Procurement Ethics Tender 52

Inter-American Development Bank

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Digital transformation is changing how government agencies relate to citizens, allowing them to meet their constituents’ needs faster, fairer, and more transparently. One promising area for governments is the creation of Tax Administrations 3.0 Furthermore, it can also help improve the service TAs provide for companies.

Accountability 52

Accountability Data Electronics Balance 52

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 13, 2024

Lire cet article en Français The capacity to efficiently process and analyze extensive datasets is not just an advantage but a necessity. 8xlarge with 2 TB storage, selected for their balance of compute, memory, and storage resources. Specifically, all machines were r5a.8xlarge

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Data Efficiency E-procurement Balance 72

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This shows how “trustworthy” AI procurement requires the development of de-risking and governance mechanisms and checks and balances to address such technology and socio-technical risks. First, because they lack the technical capabilities and capacity to do so, especially in relation to more advanced and complex AI systems.

Procurement 67

Procurement IT Buyers Influencing 67

Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 18, 2024

This has important implications for tax policies currently applied in countries, forcing governments to re-evaluate current tax rates and incentives to attract foreign investments. Second, government may face domestic political opposition against heavier taxation.

Import 52

Import Capacity Evaluation Government 52

Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 13, 2024

Among attendants were academics, practitioners, government officials, and arbitrators, who were later joined by over 50 virtual attendants via Zoom. Mr. Prager noted that the high number of BITs coupled with systemic institutional problems and weak governments has resulted in more cases being brought against states in the region.

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Balance Transparency Negotiation Capacity 52

ivalua

AUGUST 1, 2022

In doing so, they have improved supplier collaboration and created a greater capacity for resilience, innovation, and continuous improvement. . An effective SRM framework provides a set of principles, processes, and tools to establish a governance structure and manage ongoing operations during the lifecycle of a supplier. .

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Supplier Management Supply Chain Sustainability 52

AWS Public Sector

MAY 9, 2024

Introduction Government agencies are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to extract valuable insights from their data in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) Regions. It is recommended to have about 1.5x It is important to note that you can quantize the model.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

It can help raise awareness in case someone was not yet talking about this and, more seriously, it includes an Annex A that brings together the several different bits of guidance issued by the UK government to date. Data and information generated under contracts already in place may not be subject to adequate data governance frameworks.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Thankfully, there are methods that encourage procurement simplification and SME participation while maintaining a balance between risk, quality, and standards. For example, a municipal government in BC partnered with a local manufacturer to collaborate with the design and build of an accessible and cost-effective public bathroom.

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Participation Procurement Strategies Procurement Buyers 52

The Procurement School

JULY 24, 2023

Some government organizations have clear measures and expectations, and systematic approaches to managing contractor performance. Many levels of government have developed performance expectations for their construction-related procurements, but perhaps not so much for their services contracts. Are we seeing a theme here?

Management 52

Management Consulting Evaluation Public Procurement 52

University of Bristol

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Photo credit: Flickr While carrying out research on the impact of digital technologies for public procurement governance, I have realised that the deployment of artificial intelligence to promote sustainability through public procurement holds some promise. Available on SSRN: [link].

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Sustainability Procurement Public Procurement IT 52

How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

To unleash the potential that these arrangements have for enhanced efficiency and effectiveness in public procurement, more balanced regulation is needed, and more work is needed on regulatory, policy as well as implementation matters. However, in other respects, the regulation could be too rigid.

Purchasing 52

Purchasing Framework Agreement Public Procurement Public Procurement System 52

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This phenomenon emerges from the correlation between positive forecast errors and the overestimation of fiscal balances, tax revenue-to-GDP ratios, and the underestimation of expenditures.

Influencing 52

Influencing Budget Quality Sustainability 52

Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

Jaime appeared in their personal capacities. The Voices of Developing States in Multilateral Fora Ladan Mehranvar kicked off the discussion by presenting the findings of her upcoming empirical paper on the attendance and participation of government delegations in the WGIII negotiations. Mr. Bigge and Ms.

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Negotiation Participation Sustainability Influencing 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 31, 2023

This is a crucial area of regulatory development and there are increasing calls —including from those driving the development of AI—for robust regulatory and governance systems. The UK Government has launched a public consultation that will run until 21 June 2023.

Innovation 52

Innovation Consulting Collaboration Supply Chain 52

Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Platform has also facilitated the exchange of experiences among countries, strengthening the capacities of the region’s ministries in this area. 3- New impetus for debt-for-nature swaps Another sustainable financial instrument generating high interest in the ministries is the debt-for-nature swap.

Finance 52

Finance Sustainability Price Budget 52

Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 3, 2024

This thus allows for increased efficiency in arbitral proceedings administration and the dispute resolution process, and the achievement of a greater balance between the right of countries to impose sanctions and the sanctioned parties’ rights in international arbitration.

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Select GCR

JULY 9, 2024

Additionally, provide an overview of your company’s size, location, and areas of operation to give a clear picture of your capacity to meet the RFI requirements. Mention any relevant achievements, certifications, and industry recognitions that showcase your credibility and capability.

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