Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 31, 2025

In the blog below we hear from Elisa Orlando of the respected Italian anti-mafia organization Libera on both the progress so far (its significant) and the challenges remaining to set new global standards on delivering such an iconic event. Nine implementing bodies are involved, with Simico S.p.A. of allocated funds.

Transparency 97

Transparency Bidding Sustainability Corruption 97

Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In its Impact Assessment Report for the new customs reform, the European Commission also indicated this procedure as being prone to fraud. The post <strong>A Masquerade Ball – EPPO uncovers EUR 200M in customs duties and VAT due</strong> appeared first on Import and Trade Remedies Blog.

Impact Assessment 45

Impact Assessment Import Participation Transportation 45

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 6, 2024

These additional blog posts look further at measuring and mitigating bias: Tune ML models for additional objectives like fairness with SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning Use SageMaker Clarify to explain and detect bias Privacy protection and security When working on a new use case, consider doing a privacy impact assessment (PIA) at the design phase.

Government 75

Government Government Ethics Transparency 75

Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 29, 2024

This blog post will, firstly, set out the benefits of the inclusion of investor obligations generally, then distinguish between different categories of investor obligations. The Drawbacks of CSR and ESG Investor Obligations While the recent debate, on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog and elsewhere, has either been broad (e.g.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Impact Assessment Thresholds Contract 52

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

In this blog post, I summarise the findings of the AI procurement report I find more problematic and link this evidence to the failing attempt at using public procurement to regulate the acquisition of AI by the public sector in the UK.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 26, 2024

This blog discusses how the activities of arbitrators may fall within the material, personal, territorial and temporal scope of the Act. In certain situations, deployers have additional duties to carry out data protection impact assessments (Article 26(9)) and cooperate with national EU authorities (Article 26(12)).

Impact Assessment 52

Impact Assessment Influencing Import Manufacturing 52

University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In ongoing research funded by the British Academy , I apply an innovative technology-centred methodology to assess the governance opportunities and challenges for procurement digitalisation. This blog post provides a summary of the main findings so far.

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Procurement Government Government Buyers 52