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Procurement Methods vs. Solicitation Tools: What Every Procurement Professional Needs to Know

The Procurement ClassRoom

However, it is important to recognize that solicitation tools are distinct from procurement methods. It is important to note that Shopping refers to the procurement method , while the solicitation tool employed in this method is the Request for Quotations (RFQ).

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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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Digging out data to shine a light on public buying in Mongolia

Open Contracting Partnership

We designed a data analysis project to show how public open datasets can be used to uncover important issues and bring public attention to who is supplying what, for how much and whether there are any links between suppliers and high-ranking public officials. A capacity-building curriculum is vital too.

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Fine-tuning an LLM using QLoRA in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS Public Sector

QLoRA is a technique that allows language models to efficiently learn on smaller, high-quality datasets by freezing a portion of the original model weights and training an adapter overlay, which can be merged with the base model. The requirements.txt lists required packages that will be installed to the train.py Python environment.

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Maximizing satellite communications usage with Amazon Forecast

AWS Public Sector

However, a key concern is to maximize the utilization of capacity to meet demand while avoiding overprovisioning. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed deep learning service for time-series forecasting which can be used to estimate future capacity needs enabling operators to make planning decisions with more confidence.

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OCP Feedback Survey: Closing the books on 2023 and looking towards 2030

Open Contracting Partnership

When we asked which issue areas are most important to you, we saw a deep alignment with our own increased investment in anticorruption, sustainability, and electronic procurement. These will be important points to double down on in our new strategy. More importantly, there was virtually no gap in our indicators across gender.

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The Story of India’s “First Whistleblower:” Stalled Progress in the Wake of Satyendra Dubey’s 2003 Murder

Whistleblower Network News

Satyendra was murdered over 20 years ago upon exposing corruption involved in the construction of India’s largest highway project at the time, which resulted in poor quality of work and the looting of public money. Whistleblowers are very important for society and need to be encouraged to control wrongdoing in the system.