Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

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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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

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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Federal News Network

JANUARY 11, 2024

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.”

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2021

– Spend control through real-time visibility into budget consumption, negotiated prices, preferred suppliers, engagement channels. Users only see information that is relevant to them, i.e. Requisitioners see expected delivery dates, Managers their budget consumption, Accounts Payable their pending invoices.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This would result in large monetary and transactional savings for governments because, for example, approximately 25% of public contracts in the region require time extensions averaging nearly double their original terms, while around 13% experience budget increases of up to 50%. of GDP, according to FISLAC calculations.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 12, 2024

With many constraints and demands on local budgets, getting additional resources can be difficult—forcing educators to do more with less. When asked what their organization would do with 33 percent more capacity, both employees and employers identified task automation as the top productivity benefit.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

These methods are the consultancy equivalent of full competition in goods and works procurement : QCBS : Employed when the terms of reference (TOR) and budget for the consultancy can be easily defined. QBS : Used for more complex consultancy services where the scope of work cannot be accurately or fully defined at the outset.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

million (~US$24,000) being returned to the budget. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget. In late 2022, this question led them to look at value added tax (VAT), the second highest source of revenue for Kazakhstan’s budget. And the media outlet ProTenge has stopped suspicious purchases worth at least US$3 million.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 120

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It comes after the House passed a similar bill that would improve data access for the Congressional Budget Office ( H.R. In a written statement, the organization’s director of government capacity, Taylor J. The Modernizing the Congressional Research Service’s Access to Data Act ( H.R. 7032 ) earlier this year, also by voice vote.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 21, 2025

These investments not only mitigate vulnerabilities but also present a unique opportunity for countries to enhance economic resilience and bolster investor confidence in their capacity to navigate the challenges of a warming planet.

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GovLoop

MAY 3, 2023

For example, you might need more storage but can work with the existing compute and networking capacity. Being able to scale granularly where you need it can help with budgets,” Alexander said. That architecture requires an agency to scale up all three technology stacks in lockstep. But that can be a waste of money.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

At the same time, unpredictable demand makes it difficult — if not impossible — to budget effectively for cloud usage. The agency pays for a “committed capacity” — the resources it expects to use in a given period. If the need changes, “buffer capacity” is built in and readily available at a predetermined rate.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Most of the time, international development partners make resources available under a project, or the government allocates a project implementation budget. Implementing e-GP requires training and capacity building for procuring entity officials and suppliers, auditors, evaluators, contract managers, and oversight bodies.

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E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Transparency 82

FedScoop

JULY 30, 2024

The release last week of long-awaited FedRAMP modernization guidance for federal agencies began with “a novel approach” from a pair of Office of Management and Budget colleagues that included room to test out some of their ideas.

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GovLoop

JUNE 21, 2023

Problem: Limited IT Budgets Slow Modernization Working with a limited IT budget typically forces an agency’s IT leaders to put up with outdated technology longer than they would. A small bureau in a massive agency, BIS does not have a robust IT budget. But at some point, something’s got to give.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 31, 2024

In a recent survey that the EdTech McGraw Hill conducted with more than 1,100 educators in its global customer base, the capacity for AI to offer personalized learning experiences was ranked as the top reason for positive sentiment. But the McGraw Hill survey showed promising results.

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WashngtonExec

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Next is Niki Lane, acquisition and budget branch chief of capacity building at CISA, and finalist in the Contracts Executive of the Year, Government, category. The finalists for WashingtonExec’s 2024 Pinnacle Awards were announced Sept. 20, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person Nov.

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GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

Here is a real-life example on how one civilian agency reduced its environmental footprint and budget demands: An agency was looking to reduce the power needed to heat and cool its primary data center by one-third. It achieved the same logical capacity in a greatly reduced physical footprint, which further reduced the power and cooling draw.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Roughly nine out of ten countries publish open data sets for national and sector-specific budgets and expenditures. Countries are expanding the range of services they provide online (see chart below). The legislative framework supporting e-government still varies significantly across regions.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 3, 2023

Adopting the as-a-service model has major implications for budget and procurement. Moving to a cloud ecosystem of products and services calls for a new way of thinking about everything from storage and compute to budget and acquisition. You’re replacing heavy upfront capital expenditures (CapEx) with ongoing operating expenses (OpEx).

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Federal News Network

APRIL 5, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget’s 2024 Revisions of the Uniform Grants Guidance aim to streamline, simplify and expand the overall reach of the $1.2 Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. That said they can’t really handle all that capacity.

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Inter-American Development Bank

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Treasury bond markets play a pivotal role in the economic development and fiscal management of fragile countries, as they allow governments to secure funds from both the public and institutional investors, reducing the pressure on governments to print out money to finance their budgets. of GDP from 0.3% percent of GDP in 2023 from 2.9

Finance 52

Finance Sustainability Budget Capacity 52

Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 8, 2024

The technology’s potential to enhance the precision of economic forecasts, optimize budget allocations, and streamline tax administration is immense. AI can introduce data-driven insights for more evidence-based and transparent budgeting. A comprehensive strategy is essential to build the capacity necessary for successful AI adoption.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Sustainment: Budgets are finite, and organizations need solutions that offer a unified financial option. electrical generation capacity goes to data centers, according to estimates, Psaki said. Speed: People need faster access to data, so agencies need systems that deliver that.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

All countries in the region have signed the Paris Agreement, which aims to increase countries’ resilience and adaptive capacity, as well as stabilize global warming below 2°C and as close to 1.5°C C as possible. This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries.

Finance 52

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GovLoop

JUNE 22, 2023

Another budget challenge is that many agencies have integrated their compute, network and storage systems. Being able to scale granularly where you need it — e.g., just storage capacity — can help with budgets, Alexander said. And unlike when buying a whole new system, there’s no need to spend money on data migrations.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to current best practices , between 5-7 percent of a company’s IT budget should be spent on cybersecurity. percent of their IT budgets in 2022. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity and frees customers from time-consuming database administration tasks. In Germany, hospitals only invested about 2.2

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ivalua

MAY 7, 2019

With resources flat or declining, the only way to accomplish more is to free capacity through automation and improve the quality and accessibility of information for faster, better decision-making. It sets the foundation, reducing operating costs and freeing capacity. Beginners struggled most with lack of executive support and budget.

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Federal News Network

MAY 22, 2024

Two of the Coast Guard’s biggest programs — the Offshore Patrol Cutter and the Polar Security Cutter — are years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. And I think, OPC and PSC are delayed four and five years respectively, are now 11 billion and at least $2 billion over budget. They are on time and on budget.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 25, 2024

I think that’s a good point, the data available actually from the budget side of the house, and from the White House, and OMB and the agencies, as well as from the appropriations committees of what they’re doing. And of course, those were never searchable. Not everybody can meet everybody all the time.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Policymakers’ Forecasts: Optimistic Biases Discourage Compliance Optimistic macroeconomic forecasts undermine compliance during the budget cycle: the probability of complying ex-post with the fiscal rule is lower when policymakers overestimate GDP growth ex-ante.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

His work in the private sector provided him an opportunity to learn and lead teams with Closing the books; SEC Reporting; IT and Business Auditing; Business Process design, Budgets & Reporting, Governance, Risk & Compliance; Technology implementations (Oracle, SAP) and Organizational restructuring. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Leveraging their extensive experience of monitoring procurement for over a decade, ICW built local capacities to use the data available on Opentender to investigate public contracts and identify issues, and report their findings through LKPP’s official complaints channel e-pengaduan. billion). “We

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

And further, what we found is that when you really look at budgets and you look at kind of how the D&I, defense and intel across the globe is made up, the U.S. What is the capacity of those systems? We’ll be announcing later this year and into next year the expansion of that capacity. has some number of systems.

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NIH NITAAC

JANUARY 5, 2022

The budget includes $58.4 The article cited several factors that will require resolution, such as the high cost of shipping containers, lack of truck drivers and warehouse capacity issues. As one of the biggest purchasers of IT, the federal government is not immune to these challenges. billion for civilian agencies and $38.6

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

The vision is to go beyond supporting “just” a transparency and reporting portal to have a digital ecosystem that integrates real-time damage assessments, budgets, project planning, procurement and delivery. At the same time, the state does not spend a single penny of budget funds on the creation of the system.”

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Accountability E-procurement Transparency Capacity 52