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Better bike lanes in the Philippines: Civic groups won a budget for bike lanes, then followed the money

Open Contracting Partnership

During that period of emergency mobilization, Abante was focused on tracking the country’s COVID-19 response budget , alongside friends and former colleagues from his experience working in the government, academia, and civil society. We owe it to our broad coalition who fought for this budget, and the many advocates who came before us.

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Why Agencies Aren’t Efficiently Implementing Backup as a Service

FedTech Magazine

While many BaaS providers offer to securely back up agencies’ data and apps in the cloud and let them pay for storage, agencies must be mindful of their budgets as well. To do so requires understanding capacity needs and historical usage. Some agencies take advantage of BaaS, but all need to do so with taxpayer dollars in mind.

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Key Topics to Watch as Congress Works to Fund Next Year’s DoD Budget

Inside Government Contracts

For instance, Section 181 of the House NDAA would provide multiyear procurement authority for DoD to acquire domestically produced rare earth elements, including those that are a key component of large-capacity batteries used in electric vehicles.

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Scale Up Your Agency’s Success

GovLoop

In order to manage those fluctuating costs, agencies need a way to set a consistent budget for their IT team, while still meeting their organization’s needs for data storage. If your organization consistently goes beyond its committed capacity, the vendor will adjust accordingly.

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Marking 10 years and $120 billion of better public procurement for people

Open Contracting Partnership

Weve done that on a relatively modest budget, meaning that every $1 invested in the Open Contracting Partnership has positively impacted five peoples lives. Here are three key things that weve learned: 1) Procurement is powerful Our world runs on public contracts.

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Modernizing Public Infrastructure: The Power of Strategic Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

Governments worldwide control vast budgets through procurement, giving them the power to: Drive innovation by demanding advanced solutions from vendors. Invest in Capacity Building: Equip procurement professionals with the skills to evaluate, implement, and manage complex technologies like AI and blockchain.

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Pentagon plan calls for ‘generational’ changes to defense industrial base

Federal News Network

industrial capacity and describes four main priorities for shoring them up: building more resilient supply chains, increasing the industrial workforce, using more flexible acquisition policies, and economic deterrence. “We We’ll continue to do so in the next weeks and months as we finalize the implementation plan.”