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The Importance of Ethical Procurement Practices in Public Sectors

The Procurement School

Many organizations have written policies and guidelines on Ethics, but is this situation an Ethical or Moral issue? In conducting research for this article, I found many definitions of ‘Ethics’. I asked a search engine ‘What is the difference between Morals and Ethics?’ Mind1(1) ‘Ethics deals with right or wrong conduct.

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Procurement & Contract Planning: Canadian Public Sector Guide

The Procurement School

It can lead to a bid dispute or the procurement award being overturned. Communication The project plan for high value, complex or critical operational procurement includes a comms plan to increase vendor interest in the procurement. The latter is a potential issue as it is viewed as being bias.

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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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Friday Flash 08/23/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

4 The Court rejected the government’s contention that because OTs are not procurement contracts subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”), they are necessarily removed from the Court’s bid protest jurisdiction. Examining the text and legislative history of the OT statutes at issue (i.e.,

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Friday Flash 08/16/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

4 The Court rejected the government’s contention that because OTs are not procurement contracts subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”), they are necessarily removed from the Court’s bid protest jurisdiction. Examining the text and legislative history of the OT statutes at issue (i.e.,

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How exporting weapons becomes risky for contractors who make the exports

Federal News Network

I need to do business with people that meet certain standards of ethics and conduct. government is going to be your contracting party and they’ll basically operate as a bit of a middleman between you, the contractor and that foreign government. procurement contract. Export control laws.

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