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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 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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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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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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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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An apparent attempt to disrupt Army conference with foul smell

Federal News Network

Brito - AFCEA via YouTube) Employees at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation say they’re still fearful of retaliation for coming forward about mistreatment in the workplace. But she said the investigation so far shows the smell was the result of a “willful act,” and that local authorities are investigating. Morning Keynote with Gen.

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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.