Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

In an instant, children lost their place of learning, teachers lost their jobs, and families struggled to balance childcare with the immense task of rebuilding their country. Determined to support the countrys inspiring resilience, the Lithuanian government committed EUR 4.9 But Ukraine is not alone in this fight.

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Balance Accountability Transparency Education 57

American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

In my experience working with city governments, I’ve seen firsthand cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Sacramento, and St. Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. What is a fiscal cliff?

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The firm offers solutions for cities , other governments and corrections. Local governments face issues that range from balancing public safety and individual privacy rights to managing vast amounts of data securely and efficiently. In 2024, governments face challenges when they buy technology, Cunningham tells Co-op Solutions.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 11, 2024

The interplay between these principles ensures the responsible and transparent management of public funds, crucial for meeting community needs while optimizing economic benefits. It aims to achieve best value for money by balancing life-cycle costs and quality to meet user needs beyond just the lowest initial price.

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Public Procurement Efficiency Procurement Management 98

ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] A Balancing Act: Drive Sustainability while Managing Cost and Risk April 27, 2023 | | Supply Chain by Vishal Patel Cost, Risk, and Sustainability. The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time?

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 3, 2024

The Hatch Act, passed in 1939, limits the political activity of government workers. Additionally, the OSC clarified that the Hatch Act does not bar enforcement against former government employees. Therefore, it is within OSC’s jurisdiction to bring appropriate Hatch Act violations by former government employees to the MSPB.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

Take a look at insights from incredible women who are breaking barriers, defying expectations, and reshaping the landscape of governance, public procurement, and leadership. Myth 1: Women-led and -owned businesses cannot successfully deliver government contracts Women are excelling in business.

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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.

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E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Transparency 82

Extract Systems

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In an era dominated by technology, it's important that government offices keep up with the times to better serve their constituents. As the list of data or terms you need to redact grows, adjustments to auto redaction software will ensure your government office will stay up to date without spending countless hours manually redacting.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 15, 2024

Business considerations: Appoint a cross-functional team A cross-functional team will be best able to balance AI skills with knowledge of the target business process(es) and considerations around the source data and what happens to it. Where will your data scientists perform their ML–based experimentation?

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There is growing recognition that the public procurement system can be a strong force for policy implementation, helping to tackle major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the region. The reforms also created a procurement cadre across government that had specialized training – the most common of which was the CIPS-UK.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 70

Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the critical role of flexibility in fiscal governance. These clauses, designed to provide temporary flexibility from strict fiscal targets during crises, aim to strike a balance between upholding fiscal rules and effectively responding to unexpected circumstances.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 19, 2024

The government expects, in the normal course of business, that prime contractors and subcontractors effectively address flow-down requirements to ensure contract compliance. The government rightly expects compliance from its industry partners regarding contract clause flow-down requirements. It does not.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This pro-supplier/pro-customer orientation prompted Gisele’s question/challenge, which is whether ‘there is EVER an opportunity for government (customer-buyer) to be better able to negotiate the final language with clauses like these in order to weigh the trade offs between interests?’, The SCL AI clause (C1.15) reads as follows: C1.15

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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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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, this time, it affected the award that had already been made, resulting in the court entering a preliminary injunction against the government continuing with its original award. I see you, COFC, using the Government’s own words against itself.) Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? FAR 52.204-7.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This column was originally published on Roger Waldron’s blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author. For example, the PAP directs FSS contracting officers to “leverage the collective buying power of the government to obtain competitive, market-based pricing.”

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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. Ultimately, the PPN ensures transparency and ethical considerations in AI use.

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Public Procurement Procurement Ethics Tender 52

GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2023

Local government services play a role in so much of our everyday lives that they become invisible. To achieve that, local governments must move away from budgeting for services in silos and come together to create a digital twin of the organization, Francis said. Rules-based software avoids these problems. “By

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Last week, a guidance memo came out, having to do with small business participation in government-wide acquisition contract. So it seems like a kind of changing the rules for all contractors that one places on these particular government wide acquisition contracts. Their core business is government contracting. Tom Temin Right.

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Extract Systems

MARCH 26, 2024

Balancing transparency and privacy is always a tricky challenge, particularly with records that are made available to the general public. Louis’ NPR affiliate looked into the redaction processes of Missouri courts , which have been called the, “least transparent in the nation.”

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 20, 2022

To achieve the best outcome in adjusting their fiscal commitments, governments in the region must first consider to what extent the initially established framework has contributed to this purpose, what has worked, and what has not. On one hand, the structural balance rule (SR) is the highest and stands at 79%.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While that seems like a large number, it pales in comparison to the number of federal contracts the federal government awards in a given year. On average, the government awards over 11 million contracts per year. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? Call us at 785-200-8919.

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Extract Systems

JANUARY 30, 2024

Court records, however, are often governed by the state so there is much more consistency of approach amongst counties. The big benefits that the state will see from this switch include greater access, transparency, and efficiency. North Carolina is one state currently amidst an overhaul of their court records.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 2:00PM EST | 1 Hour | 1 CPE When thinking about the use of artificial intelligence in government, it is important to consider its tactical and strategic impacts, together and separately. In the government space, Kurt served as the Chief Enterprise Architect at the FBI.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 2:00PM EST | 1 Hour | 1 CPE When thinking about the use of artificial intelligence in government, it is important to consider its tactical and strategic impacts, together and separately. In the government space, Kurt served as the Chief Enterprise Architect at the FBI.

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Participation Ethics Finance Leadership 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 19, 2024

The government expects, in the normal course of business, that prime contractors and subcontractors effectively address flow-down requirements to ensure contract compliance. The government rightly expects compliance from its industry partners regarding contract clause flow-down requirements. It does not.

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Procurement Negotiation Price Transparency 49

ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time? Gaps and dysfunction in the supply chains and a lack of visibility are making it difficult to support Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. Those are three hot topics in the enterprise today.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Supplier Balance 52

Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Social value is directed toward the broader benefits that procurement and government’s commercial activities can bring to society, the economy, and the environment. By focusing on social value, governments demonstrate accountability and purpose. This is why government agencies are setting sustainability targets for suppliers.

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Public Procurement Procurement Supply Chain Tender 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. It establishes a robust methodology to explore what impacts can be measured and also explores the channels through which transparency is indeed impactful – e.g. who are the stakeholders and enablers that are the actual drivers of change using increased transparency.

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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.

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Accountability E-procurement Transparency Capacity 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

The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For example, the PAP directs FSS contracting officers to “leverage the collective buying power of the government to obtain competitive, market-based pricing.” They do not require the government to purchase all its requirements from FSS program contracts. Yet, FSS contracts are not requirements contracts.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 5, 2024

Ever since then, the Indian government has taken a more cautious approach with the 2016 India Model BIT (“India Model BIT”). In this regard, states and stakeholders would have to work on finding a more balanced approach which takes into account public participation, transparency and steps to make it more legitimate in the eyes of public.

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Balance Negotiation Sustainability Accountability 52

GovLoop

AUGUST 17, 2022

Successful DevSecOps transformation means striking the right balance within your organization. If you can create a team spirit where transparency reigns supreme and there’s room for flexibility, that will allow DevSecOps to move at its authentic pace. Don’t mistake speed for success. Or making that release date could fry your team.

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Balance Transparency Demand Leadership 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.

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Accountability Data Electronics Balance 52

Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 25, 2024

These were the public interest in: (i) the operation and practice of arbitration; and (ii) the desirability of public scrutiny as a means by which confidence in the courts can be maintained and the administration of justice made transparent.

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