Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM).

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Strategic Planning Balance 52

American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It results from past budget deficits and requires ongoing management through interest and principal repayments.

Government 97

Government Government Budget Quality 97

FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office in charge of handling data around millions of patents said Tuesday that artificial intelligence adoption faces significant barriers within the federal government due to the current culture and bureaucracy. Our budgeting process is stupid. The top tech official at the U.S. Our procurement is stupid.

Government 114

Government Government Budget Quality 114

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.

Corruption 78

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 78

SmallGovCon

MARCH 22, 2024

Made Washington State Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Marketing and Selling Low-Quality Ballistic Protective Equipment Produced in China to Dozens of Law Enforcement Agencies and the U.S. Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Illegal Importation for Reselling Chinese Goods as U.S.-Made

Ethics 105

Ethics Government Contracts Media Quality 105

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

“Local governments face issues that range from balancing public safety and individual privacy rights to managing vast amounts of data securely and efficiently. Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.”

Purchasing 110

Purchasing Total Cost of Ownership Government Government 110

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Purchase Order has been touted as the only way to manage ‘maverick’ spend (stopping off budget expenditure), but it’s also a way to automate invoice processing. We need to take the good parts of the networks (data quality) and go back to look at AP Automation and invoice matching. What’s changed, nothing other than data!

E-procurement 94

E-procurement Supplier Buyers Supply Chain 94

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. The system works by collecting public procurement data and structuring it in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format. Diegues says.

Data 57

Data Public Procurement Tender Price 57

How to Crack a Nut

JANUARY 13, 2025

Coupled with the current budget and expectations of public sector productivity gains, the action plan will put AI adoption top of the agenda for public sector organisations (if it wasnt there already). government should also focus on its role as a major user and customer of AI and how it uses its powers to catalyse private sector adoption.

Procurement 64

Procurement Tender Supplier Innovation 64

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2021, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) awarded a contract to Mi-Case , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, to replace its legacy systems managing case data across the state’s corrections facilities. This story demonstrates that implementation can be accelerated without compromising quality.

Management 75

Management Leadership Quality Budget 75

Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 25, 2024

However, the CVF is currently below budget. Other agencies, like the SEC, CFTC, and IRS understand this, and their programs work because empirical data shows that this causes more whistleblowers with valuable information to come forward.”

Quality 109

Quality Budget Consulting Data 109

FedScoop

JANUARY 3, 2024

As far as what’s next for federal acquisition, Hashmi stressed the importance of acquisition as a lever for public policy and embracing data in acquisition. Though people might view procurement as an old-school process filled with paperwork, he said “smart 21st century acquisition is a data problem — inherently a data problem.”

Supply Chain 105

Supply Chain Data Management Quality 105

Select GCR

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They are tasked with hiring subcontractors, coordinating their workflows, and ensuring that all aspects of the project are completed on time and within budget. They are accountable for managing all aspects of the project, ensuring that it is completed on time and within budget. Prime contractors have a wide-ranging scope of work.

Government Contracts 52

Government Contracts Contract Bidding Participation 52

GovSpend

JUNE 20, 2024

to the SBIR program if their extramural research and development budgets exceed $100M. Moreover, agencies with an extramural R&D budget surpassing $1 billion must reserve 0.45% for the STTR program. Note: The above analysis is based on FPDS data on the Fedmine platform as of 6/17/24 and 6/18/24 based on funding contracting offices.

Contract 105

Contract Innovation Participation Utilities 105

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 14, 2024

Hilary Tam, AWS principal sustainability transformation lead, noted that IDC Europe, a leading research consultancy, identified that 62 percent of large EMEA organisations will spend at least 5 percent of their IT budgets on sustainability actions in 2025. XOCEAN is a company which uses uncrewed sea vessels to collect ocean mapping data.

Sustainability 81

Sustainability Data Quality Efficiency 81

The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? Attendees will gain critical insights into: What’s next for the VA budget and healthcare investments? is less than one month away!

Logistics 52

Logistics E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

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. trillion in grants and cooperative assistance agencies pay out each year.

Management 97

Management Quality Budget Evaluation 97

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2024

Going over budget is not an option. Frugal architecture at the Urban Institute The Urban Institute has been producing rigorous data and evidence to support policy solutions since President Lyndon Johnson founded the organization in 1968. This example shows how to generate Stata and R syntax to summarize K-12 student enrollment data.

Innovation 75

Innovation Data Education Quality 75

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE The central premise of Office of Management and Budget Memo 22-09 laying out the Federal Zero Trust Strategy is that no actor, system, network, or service operating outside or within the security perimeter is trusted. Controlling access is everything.

Management 98

Management Project Management Risk Management Networking 98

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At AWS, we believe that optimizing IT costs (including cloud) helps unlock budget to invest in more innovation. This tradeoff works best when organizations embrace FinOps, Cloud Financial Management (CFM) best practices that take a data-driven approach to maximizing business value from cloud spend.

Price 75

Price Demand Education Efficiency 75

GovLoop

OCTOBER 5, 2022

And whether that involves helping people pay their water bills or allowing law enforcement to preserve crime data, the cost of IT security is worth it, she believes. When you think about budgets, a lot of organizations will spend the majority of their money on meeting the mission. … Manage Your Data Intelligently.

Data 52

Data Management Quality Import 52

FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

By leveraging Workspace tools like Google Docs and Sheets, UNOPS has streamlined project management and data handling and significantly reduced operational friction while enhancing user experience. Doing so facilitates more seamless project communication, budgeting and reporting. We aim to break the data silos.

Collaboration 68

Collaboration Innovation Efficiency Integration 68

ivalua

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A new report, “Data-Enabled Supply Chain Transparency” has revealed that 77% of respondents indicated their organization considers supply chain transparency to be critically or highly important. Redwood City, CA, 13 October, 2022. About the research.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Transparency Procurement Procurement Team 52

FedScoop

APRIL 30, 2024

Those reports would be included in each agency’s AI use case inventory, in accordance with Office of Management and Budget guidance finalized in March. Because there’s just so many layers to state and local and federal government and how they share their data.

Inventory 79

Inventory Quality Budget Data 79

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 25, 2023

But the other thing that we looked at, Tom, was whether or not for those contracts, the fact that the E-Verify clause was included whether or not that was also noted in the federal procurement data system. USCIS itself, the Office of Management and Budget and the contracting agencies themselves all have a task here. Tom Temin Yes.

Import 64

Import E-procurement Quality Contract 64

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

While physical security remains a critical focus, businesses and other public sector organizations are bolstering their security posture towards a less visible vulnerability: data and computer systems. According to IBM’s annual data breach report, 83 percent of organizations experienced more than one data breach in 2022.

Innovation 78

Innovation Data Education Evaluation 78

Government Contracts Legal Forum

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The 2023 Strategy builds upon and supersedes the DoD’s first AI Strategy published in 2019, reported on here , and the revised Data Strategy published in 2020 to continue the DoD’s digital transformation, unifying previous guidance and enabling stronger alignment and synchronization to scale advanced capabilities for use across the DoD.

Quality 40

Quality Data Government Contracts Budget 40

FedInsider

OCTOBER 4, 2023

She participated in the Health and Human Services Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program where she rotated to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and she functioned as the Acting Deputy CIO at the Indian Health Service (IHS).

Participation 98

Participation Telecommunication Networking Management 98

ivalua

JULY 16, 2020

A lack of digital maturity and a focus on supplier cost and quality are also limiting green practices. When it comes to working with suppliers, quality (38%) and cost (31%) are the most important factors businesses consider, with sustainability far behind (15%).

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Supply Chain Supplier Quality 52

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. Beginners struggled most with lack of executive support and budget.

Supplier 58

Supplier Capacity Integration Integrity 58

ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimates federal grants to states and local governments in FY2019 totaled nearly three quarters of a trillion dollars. trillion, making grants roughly 17% of the total federal budget. . Federal grants often make up a large portion of any state, county or municipal budget.

Management 52

Management Supply Chain Budget Transparency 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

And they’re not the only ones—other department heads are also increasingly budget-conscious, creating a new opportunity to partner with procurement for better budget management. Other benefits include improved quality and lower risk. However, the path to success is never easy. Uncertainty Metrics.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supplier Collaboration Transparency 52

ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2022

As operating budgets tighten, restrictive spending will pressure businesses to focus on savings and creative alternatives. . 5 Procurement Increasing Its Focus on and Use of Data. 2022 will be a breakthrough year for data as companies start implementing tools like predictive A.I. Inflation will Continue to rise in 2022.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Supplier Consumer Demands 52

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Savings generated from a planned cloud migration can be passed onto the district or school—or, in some cases, the student—without compromising quality. While budget-conscious K12 organizations might be reluctant to invest in new initiatives, the cloud allows the chance to experiment—and even expand—successful programs.

Education 81

Education Innovation Budget Engineering 81

GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

“We were in the heart of the pandemic, and we had this federal money, and we wanted to get it out the door to the right people and for the right uses,” said Stephanie McGarrah, Executive Director of NCPRO, which is part of the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management. Either way, the quality of your data will suffer.

Distribution 52

Distribution Quality Data Import 52

ivalua

APRIL 23, 2021

One of the most interesting suggestions is that a procurement team should take a service mindset when working with the budget holders within the organisation. By supporting the budget holders they can then deliver value to the organisation.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Automotive Supplier Procurement Team 52

Extract Systems

JULY 11, 2023

Aside from the obvious benefits of having a file that doesn’t degrade in quality over time, counties are also able to provide increased access for constituents while freeing up county staff. As a result of legislation and their own initiatives, counties across the US continue to move their records away from paper and into digital formats.

Quality 52

Quality Budget Data Government 52