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Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Open Contracting Partnership

It all starts with procurement. Their comments are all published on the site, along with any responses from the procuring entity. For procuring officials, the pre-bidding documents module also streamlines their workload by consolidating feedback in a single, organized platform.

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As the Acquisition World Turns: OFPP turns heat up on primes

Federal News Network

More NITAAC news, though it’s not what every bidder wants to hear — or maybe it is — director Brian Goodger has moved on to take a new role as the head of contracting activity at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Harada instructed agencies to standardize and apply some consistency to their procurement forecasts.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The achievement Kazakhstan has seen a dramatic decline in the use of single-source procurement in recent years. In the general public procurement market (valued at around US$19 billion annually), direct awards have dropped from 81% of the value of all procedures in 2017 to 23.5% The average number of bidders per lot rose from 3.16

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

Around the world, governments are embracing “green procurement” – environmentally sustainable strategies to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution. A ” catalogue ” of green procurement strategies in the European Union and the United States, prepared by the European Commission and the Office of the U.S.

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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. Procurement was long seen as a clerical administrative function, rather than a strategic lever. This was not always the case.

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Industry pressure forces NASA to press pause on SEWP VI

Federal News Network

“There is a lot of ambiguity in this procurement in a number of areas. Additionally, Turner posted the open letter on LinkedIn , garnering the attention of Karla Smith Jackson, NASA’s assistant administrator for procurement and deputy chief acquisition officer. Smith Jackson responded publicly to the letter.

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Three new story arcs of ‘As GSA’s Acquisition World Turns’

Federal News Network

Thus is the always entertaining world of federal procurement — on step forward, one step back. Along with ePS-NDVSB, other bidders may have included Amazon and Granger. The General Services Administration got out from under one protest of a major acquisition initiative, only to be sucked right back into another protest.

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