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Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

The public procurement agency improved access to information about upcoming opportunities for women-led and small businesses and conducted training to improve their capacity to respond. The team have expanded their capacity to manage these updated processes.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

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.

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DoD is Making its List, and Checking it Twice: DoD Updates 1260H Chinese Military Companies List

Government Contracts Legal Forum

Section 805’s Entity Prohibition becomes effective on June 30, 2026, and its Goods and Services Prohibition becomes effective on June 30, 2027. The prohibitions do not extend to purchases of goods, services, or technology that connect goods or services to third party services (e.g.,

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What is a RFP?

Select GCR

The primary goal of issuing an RFP is to solicit competitive proposals from qualified vendors, service providers, or contractors. Here are some examples of entities that commonly use RFPs: Government Agencies: Government agencies use RFPs as a formalized method to procure goods, services, or projects.

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Advances in the new international taxation and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

However, we know that developing countries need support to develop further their analytical capacities and so achieve a truly effective participation in the development of international standards.

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Remedies When The Government Ceases Paying a Contractor, Grantee, or Cooperatee

Procurement Notes

75] Again, the purpose of a procurement contract is for an Agency to obtain the goods, services, intellectual property, and/or construction that the Agency needs to meet its mission to the American people. [76] Is the capacity of the government less than that of a corporation, or of a subordinate officer, or of a private individual?);

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

Ultimately, DoD adding EPA clauses to already-existing fixed-price contracts really should be focused on the preservation of important capabilities and capacity in the defense industrial base. Tenaglia’s September 9 guidance may not have taken the notion as far as I did, but he certainly started the fire. 153] See FAR 16.205-1.