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

Inter-American Development Bank

This new way of managing contracts can fundamentally change the relationship of parties involved in public procurement. Traditional public procurement is often adversarial between public buyers and suppliers, with each side aiming to maximize its own benefit through strict rules for protection.

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How Government Contracting (Government Procurement) Offers Opportunities for Innovation

Tracker Intelligence

But beyond the financial rewards, what does your business stand to gain from getting involved in public procurement with the government? And how can you stand apart from the competition to win government procurement contracts in the first place? The popularity of government procurement contracts has persisted ever since.

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

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

Public procurement constitutes about one-third of government spending or 13 trillion USD per year. Corruption in public procurement can lead to: 1) Overpriced public procurement contracts contributing to larger budget deficits. It is highly vulnerable to corruption with estimates of losses amounting to 10-20%.

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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”.

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How exporting weapons becomes risky for contractors who make the exports

Federal News Network

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. The first is through or military sales transactions where the U.S. So that’s going to look much more like a traditional U.S.

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Women-Owned Business Certification Programs “Sello Empresa Mujer”: An Effective Tool to Promote Women’s Participation in Public Procurement

Inter-American Development Bank

It is estimated that less than one percent of the $10 trillion spent annually on global public procurement is awarded to women-owned businesses. [1] 1] There are different restrictions that explain this low participation of women-led companies in the awarding of public procurement contracts.