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Covered California provides affordable healthcare access, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector

Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, purchasing insurance in the individual market proved challenging for those without employer-sponsored health benefits. In 2013, more than 17% of Californians did not have health insurance. It connects with multiple health insurers’ enrollment systems.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

While some efforts have been made to improve the transparency of these markets, greater access to high-quality data is needed to meaningfully assess their performance. OCP provides coalition members with data analytics and capacity-building support to promote fair, efficient, and sustainable public procurement in Kazakhstan.

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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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Simplifying Public Sector Procurement: Strategies to Increase Sme Participation

The Procurement School

Thankfully, there are methods that encourage procurement simplification and SME participation while maintaining a balance between risk, quality, and standards. Specify Criteria and Reduce Complexity Higher insurance, bonding limits, and generic criteria in bid documents may exclude potentially qualified companies.

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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector

Covered California’s objectives are to increase the number of insured Californians, improve healthcare quality, lower costs, and reduce health disparities through an innovative, competitive marketplace that empowers consumers to choose the health plan and providers that give them the best value. Louis University.

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Public procurement of AI between opportunities and risks -- guest post by Giuseppe Bitti

How to Crack a Nut

an insurance). A recurrent auditing is particularly important, as the performance of the tool will evolve due its capacity to learn (and sometimes possibly even detect it is being tested ). In the long run this would become a structural weakness in the capacity of the public sector to deliver on its mandate and stay competitive.

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Procurement Planning: Steps for Issuing a Solicitation

The Procurement School

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. The implied outcome is that we are seeking to insure value for taxpayer dollars. Sometimes the need is to assess the industry’s capacity to meet the procurement requirements.