AWS Public Sector

APRIL 15, 2025

Whether theyre migrating agencies to the cloud or building AI-driven solutions, GovTechs must balance technological advancement with compliance regulations, budget limitations, and evolving government needs. In this blog post, we discuss five key ways AWS supports GovTechs in their mission to serve government agencies and citizens.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Local governments face issues that range from balancing public safety and individual privacy rights to managing vast amounts of data securely and efficiently. The firm offers solutions for cities , other governments and corrections.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It’s why all city leaders, not just those in finance, must be well-versed in the different types of budgetary concerns and how to navigate them.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Once the new domains were determined, both the Gogo and Intelsat Commercial Aviation domains were used simultaneously to access the applications through the Classic Load Balancer. A key aspect of simplifying the certificates using a SAN certificate is that it provided a solution for integrating with the Classic Load Balancer.

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Inter-American Development Bank

AUGUST 1, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic had a very large impact on government finances. Three important variables worth highlighting are borrowing costs, primary balances, and exchange rates. Supply-driven inflation shocks tend to be associated with a tightening of financing conditions. This is in tern reflected in increases in borrowing costs.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 12, 2024

and Gabriella Palmieri (Italian Attorney General) highlighted the complex interaction between international, transnational and national law, and they agreed on the need to find a balance between environmental protection and economic competitiveness. environmentally harmful) firms from making sustainable investments.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 10, 2025

Her goal has always been to strike a balance between structure and speed: ensuring the company meets every requirement while still moving quickly and efficiently. .” At Two Six, Walter-Beam has created a compliant and agile operation one that doesnt just check the boxes but also enables the business.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2023

That’s because most government finance offices have historically relied on spreadsheets, which are great for calculating budgets, but don’t allow for modeling. Spreadsheets are based on formulas that finance staff must repeatedly audit and test to stay up to date. What’s more, spreadsheets hinder sharing of institutional knowledge.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2019

Duncan also highlighted his vision for the future technology landscape, with organizations leveraging a set of intelligence platforms for specific business purposes (procurement, finance, customers, etc.) rather than the omniscience promised by ERPs, which has failed.

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Christopher Kubasik, chair and CEO of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), said the company plans to discontinue its merger and acquisition activity for the “foreseeable future” to strengthen its balance sheet and return all excess capital to shareholders.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Additionally, they have set up daily and monthly billing alerts at the organization level to inform their finance and technical teams if costs surpass set thresholds. The UBC CIC balances diverse project requirements while maintaining security and cost-effectiveness, serving as a model for other AWS customers.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The legal framework as well as the creation of procurement oversight agencies led to more accountability, with a clear set of rules as well as checks and balances. These reforms improved efficiency as the decentralization of the procurement function allowed for quicker decision-making.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 7, 2023

One of the reasons for this is the “multiple principals problem,” where no one does the full job of monitoring because they assume others will do it or that the ministry of finance is actually doing the job. Secondly, the GDPE must have qualified and sufficient personnel to monitor existing public enterprises.

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ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

As part of Ivalua’s journey to bridge the gap between Finance and Procurement, Ivalua has partnered with TransferMate to reduce the financial friction within cross-border trade. This allows for part-payments, quality or milestone-based contract terms, even payment on receipt to be visible to the supplier, finance, treasury, and the buyers.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He has been in numerous leadership roles in the private sector for over 25 years, spanning accounting, finance, technology & operations management spheres. Close Under Secretary for Science & Technology, Department of Homeland Security Vinay Singh × Vinay Singh Chief Financial Officer Mr. Vinay V.

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Select GCR

MARCH 11, 2025

Certification programs can also improve access to funding, helping overcome barriers in securing loans or equity financing. Balancing professional and personal responsibilities effectively is also challenging. WOSB firms must reaffirm their eligibility at least once every three years through a program examination.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But there’s one big challenge: financing. They need to balance cost and protection. It also should be tested — in other words, an organization should conduct live simulations, perhaps without giving staff advanced knowledge of the exercise. Allocating Money.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 15, 2024

However, the focus on delivering a conventional energy business in a value-focused way has led to more disputes due to finely balanced economics and resource shortages. Finally, the use of legal finance as an insurance policy to protect against adverse cost exposure is becoming more normalised.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 16, 2024

While much attention is being paid to ways to harness the power of AI, equally important are questions of safety and transparency, and the balance of collaboration between government and industry to advance strategic leadership in the global AI race.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While much attention is being paid to ways to harness the power of AI, equally important are questions of safety and transparency, and the balance of collaboration between government and industry to advance strategic leadership in the global AI race.

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ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

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. Most companies we see today have their finance departments bogged down with spreadsheets. Sustainability. Think of the brand Tom’s shoes. Today this rarely exists.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Gartner covers this in the report: Balancing Speed and Risk Oversight with Supplier Onboarding ) The degree of supplier scrutiny varies depending on the importance of the contract and the strategic value of the supplier. . These checks go deeper into evaluating supplier readiness to integrate and become an extension of the business.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In practical terms, such rules help governments avoid overspending in good times, so they have enough cushion to deal with bad times, reducing the risk their finances fall into disarray and debt levels become unsustainable. On one hand, the structural balance rule (SR) is the highest and stands at 79%.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Fiscal rules have become a common policy tool to promote the sustainability of public finances, as the number of countries with at least one fiscal rule has grown from ten in 1991 to more than 100 by 2021.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

AWS enables customers to get the most value from data by providing a comprehensive set of integrated tools and robust governance capabilities that balance access and control. They launched Falcon LLMs , three foundational large language models, to facilitate research in healthcare, finance, education, and more.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So basically the idea is that because a company can’t get reimbursed for the interest costs on loans and it has to finance its work before that, it delivers the products or the end results to the government. And so there’s a balance off that needs to be played out there. David Berteau They’re going to try it out.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As a result, they can be caught off balance, unable to promptly address the ripple effects that problems further down the supply chain can have on their own operations. . Check supplier finances. Most have little understanding of who is supplying their suppliers or those suppliers’ suppliers. How do you assess that risk?

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The importance and positive contribution of public procurement law to the adequate management of public funds may seem difficult to appreciate in ordinary times, and there are recurrent calls for a reduction of the administrative burden and bureaucracy related to procurement procedures, checks and balances.

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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.

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Inter-American Development Bank

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

In this sense, digitally collecting accounting information from companies is crucial to enable TAs to better measure business activities, such as operations, financing, investments, the performance of companies, and their contractual relationships. However, to reach the next level of digitization, known as Tax Administration 3.0,

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Erika Kurockina, the Deputy Minister of the Economy says: “Public procurement is certainly an effective tool to achieve strategic objectives, including SME engagement, inclusion, environment, and it is important to achieve a good balance between these goals.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

On the other hand, SADC decided against including the FET or fair administrative treatment in the SADC Finance and Investment Protocol. In 2017, SADC issued a revised model BIT , which, like the PIA, provides fair administrative treatment in the place of FET.

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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. Mandatory bonding and the financial liquidity required to finance large projects can result in high bid cost.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With establishing end-to-end process ownership at Procurement and structuring cross-functional collaboration between Businesses, Procurement, and Finance, it is also time to revitalize your performance measures. The latter is a much stronger predictor of future performance levels but is usually overlooked.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The State aid Decision also explicitly stated that ‘The construction works financed through the grant … will be subject to a competitive process, respecting the applicable procurement rules’ (para 8). The agreement foresaw that, at the end of the project, ‘Any excess on that balance sheet is to be paid to the municipality.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 15, 2024

Younger legislators bring in the voices and perspectives of a generation that will inherit and shape the future and could balance intergenerational interests in the green transition. Public Finances Are Improving General government revenues in LAC countries averaged 31.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022 compared to 39.7%

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

Balance Procurement Objectives. Before diving into specifics, I feel it is important to note how the crisis has emphasized the importance of Procurement / Supply Chain leaders having a balanced set of objectives. Others may still be applied to help businesses better manage the effects of the crisis. Yes, cost still matters.

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