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Strengthening public procurement in Africa: a conversation with Joyeuse Uwingeneye

Open Contracting Partnership

It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes. The government needs to think about the local communities, about creating jobs.

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SmallGovCon Week in Review: Jan. 28-Feb. 2, 2024

SmallGovCon

This week in federal government contracting news had some important updates, including a new GSA schedule catalog platform, a report on savings in software purchases, and a revamped SBA training program from small businesses. 2, 2024 first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog.

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Fastest 5 Minutes

Government Contracts Legal Forum

Crowell & Moring’s “Fastest 5 Minutes” is a biweekly podcast that provides a brief summary of significant government contracts legal and regulatory developments that no government contracts lawyer or executive should be without. View the full article

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Frictionless P2P: A Dream or Reality? 

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Author: Hubert Verweij , Head of Procurement Transformation, Capgemini Invent Sweden and Finland. Nowadays, Procurement practitioners primarily talk about emerging topics like the reduction of scope 3 emissions, supplier-enabled innovation and supply risk management. Procurement as end-to-end process owner .

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The Unintended Consequences of Policy and Data Overreach

The Coalition for Government Procurement

No discussion of the effective administration of Federal procurement can ignore the reality that the Executive Branch and Congress have leveraged the procurement system to affect important social policy goals.

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NAICS Code Appeal Still a Powerful Tool

SmallGovCon

However, contractors should not forget how powerful a tool a NAICS code appeal could be for small business procurements. Agencies must assign a NAICS code to a procurement based on the type of work involved and to establish the business size limit for the contract (if set-aside for small business or a small business certification).

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