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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

Smart public procurement refers to making optimal decisions to minimize waste and enhance the quality, efficiency and sustainability of public spending when purchasing and contracting goods, works and services. Better contracts and processes, for example, could reduce the risk of delays, quality problems or unexpected costs.

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How Government Contracting (Government Procurement) Offers Opportunities for Innovation

Tracker Intelligence

In the UK, the government spends around £284 billion on public sector contracts every year. With so much money in play, it should be unsurprising that government procurement attracts so much interest. Even big names like Amazon, Dell, and Apple hold government contracts in England. What is Government Contracting?

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The Corruption Cost Tracker: Quantifying the costs of corrupt contracting and the savings to be made from reform

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

The Corruption Cost Tracker: Quantifying the costs of corrupt contracting and the savings to be made from reform. Public procurement constitutes about one-third of government spending or 13 trillion USD per year. Fazekas, M., Dávid-Barret, E., Basdevant, O. GTI-R/2020:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute.

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Contract Data Management With AI

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Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repositor. A specific application for Procurement involves contract analysis.

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Contract Analysis leveraging AI – A Technical Overview

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Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repository. One of the initial use cases the team is tackling is for contract analysis. .

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

Some of DRCF’s findings in the AI procurement report are astonishing, and should attract significant attention. The report is not specifically about public procurement of AI, but its content is relevant to assessing the conditions surrounding the acquisition of AI by the public sector. This is extremely worrying.

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Collaboration, Procurement with Purpose and the Entente Cordiale…

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Sometimes action can be taken by the buyer that either does not affect the supplier or just requires their agreement. Putting a simple clause in your standard contract saying, “no slavery please” does not require anything other than the supplier to say “yes”.