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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. To realize that vision, in 2021, EKBPP joined OCP’s Lift accelerator program.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. We now have to help our business adapt and innovate.

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Accelerating India’s digital future: MeitY empanels AWS Asia-Pacific (Hyderabad) Region for government workloads

AWS Public Sector

Similarly, financial services organisations can benefit from agile, efficient, and security-compliant cloud solutions at scale, providing consumers faster and secure digital banking, insurance, and payment innovations.

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

How to Crack a Nut

transparency for image manipulation), or substantial requirements (e.g. 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 ). facial recognition via CCTV footage scraping).

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Reimagining unemployment contact centers

AWS Public Sector

Benefit programs like unemployment insurance are complicated and time-sensitive with weekly eligibility requirements. So, how can agencies create capacity in their contact centers while improving equitable access to critical services? Demo of Amazon Connect for unemployment insurance. How do I apply?

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Simplifying Public Sector Procurement: Strategies to Increase Sme Participation

The Procurement School

Specify Criteria and Reduce Complexity Higher insurance, bonding limits, and generic criteria in bid documents may exclude potentially qualified companies. Escalating bonding and insurance values directly increase bid pricing and that cost flows through to an owner, no matter what.

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Procurement Planning: Steps for Issuing a Solicitation

The Procurement School

The implied outcome is that we are seeking to insure value for taxpayer dollars. If there is a good understanding of the number of potential bidders and their capacity this minimizes the requirement for market analysis. Sometimes the need is to assess the industry’s capacity to meet the procurement requirements.