AWS Public Sector

MAY 28, 2024

The EHDS has the opportunity to establish Europe as a global leader in ethical and privacy-preserving approaches for health data use. With the EHDS, we look forward to collaborating across industries and with policymakers to develop the technical infrastructure, standards, and tools for appropriate health data sharing and analytics.

Data 80

Data Innovation Ethics Electronics 80

ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

Originally published in the 2022 ProcureCon Report “Transforming Procurement: Embracing Digital Innovation and Driving Sustainability” Ethical business practices and sustainability initiatives are forcing organizations to not only stand up, but to also set themselves apart from the competition by implementing ESG and CSR commitments.

Procurement Strategies 96

Procurement Strategies Sustainability Procurement Supply Chain 96

The Procurement School

AUGUST 21, 2024

Consistently, external auditor findings have shown the lack of professionalism in procurement to be a financial problem often accompanied with ethical dilemmas. Procurement service providers work closely with public sector procurement consultants to streamline processes, maintain transparency, and uphold ethical standards.

Procurement 52

Procurement Competitive Bidding Public Procurement Supplier 52

Select GCR

MAY 14, 2024

Key Takeaways The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is the comprehensive set of rules that govern the procurement process of the US federal government, ensuring consistency, ethical practice, and efficiency across all executive agencies. These provisions and clauses are instrumental in ensuring fair and ethical procurement practices.

Ethics 52

Ethics Procurement Price Procurement Contracts 52

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

This demonstrates that businesses increasingly recognize diversity as a global issue and these programs provide an “ethical” mechanism to connect with customers through community engagement. However, the ethical justification is no longer the totality of the value proposition as leaders now see the overall value for their business. .

Supplier 98

Supplier Ethics E-procurement Supply Chain 98

The Procurement School

MARCH 22, 2024

In late 2020, we took a bold step into the unknown by releasing the First Nation Procurement Policy, [1]which was collaboratively designed and written with our First Nation Partners. Collaboration between our team and our Yukon First Nation partners revealed a different mindset when it came to procurement.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Collaboration Ethics 52

Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The sole source justification process is rigorous and requires approval from the organization’s procurement services, with steps including the completion and review of a justification form, internal review and approvals, and adherence to transparency and compliance regulations to manage risks effectively.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supplier Price Competitive Bidding 52

The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

The role of the procurement professional is to collaborate with the client to articulate what they want to buy. Procurement service providers work closely with public sector procurement consultants to streamline processes, maintain transparency, and uphold ethical standards.

Procurement 52

Procurement Market Analysis Bidder Public Procurement 52

ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

Collaborate to Win Henry Ford’s quote that “coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success” has never rang more true. Being more agile and addressing more strategic objectives requires procurement to be more collaborative. 78% engage suppliers more collaboratively than they did 3 years ago.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supplier Collaboration Supply Chain 52

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Governments will plan to collaborate with one another and promote consistent approaches in this effort, and to share the outcomes of these evaluations, where sharing can be done safely, securely and appropriately, with other countries where the frontier AI model will be deployed.

Procurement 78

Procurement Evaluation Participation Collaboration 78

The Procurement School

JANUARY 22, 2024

This is an indication of the level of transparency and accountability required by public procurement professionals. While that may be the alarmist’s view it supports the idea of preparing a strong procurement document to align with the public procurement principles of open, fair and transparent.

Procurement 40

Procurement Procurement Contracts Bidder Contract 40

ivalua

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Given the current market challenges and geopolitical uncertainties only 7% see ESG outcomes as a priority, which is in stark contrast with strengthening regulatory frameworks and demanding consumer preferences requiring more transparency to combat greenwashing.

Procurement Team 52

Procurement Team Supply Chain Procurement Supplier 52

ivalua

MAY 6, 2021

These include faster co-innovation with suppliers, working with sustainable and ethical suppliers and empowering employees — all of which will lead to increased business agility. . 4) Improve Collaboration. A common trend throughout the survey results was the importance of supplier collaboration, and the challenges involved.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Supplier Collaboration 52

The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The presentation and all questions and answers are posted as an addendum in keeping with the public procurement tenets of open, fair and transparent. Procurement service providers work closely with public sector procurement consultants to streamline processes, maintain transparency, and uphold ethical standards.

Bidder 52

Bidder Procurement Evaluation Bidding 52

Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 21, 2024

ChatGPT and other large language model (LLM) tools may be used to enhance and accelerate processes of document drafting, party collaboration, predictive analysis, dialectic argumentation, and 3D modelling. For all its benefits, however, the use of ChatGPT is not without risks, both professional and ethical.

Ethics 52

Ethics Electronics Efficiency Collaboration 52

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

Responsible AI mitigating the risks Organizations that use generative AI must build responsible AI systems that are fair, explainable, robust, secure, transparent, and safeguard privacy. AWS is focused on collaborating with regulators and the industry to support the safe, secure, and ethical advancement of AI technology.

Sustainability 69

Sustainability Data Innovation Transparency 69

The Procurement School

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Procurement service providers work closely with public sector procurement consultants to streamline processes, maintain transparency, and uphold ethical standards. This collaborative effort ensures that the procurement landscape remains fair, competitive, and cost-effective.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Ethics Supply Chain 52

Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

The week also promises comprehensive explorations into the African Continental Free Trade Area, delving into the future of investment protection, technological impacts on arbitration, and ethical standards, contributing significantly to the global arbitration dialogue. For more detailed information, visit the website.

Ethics 52

Ethics Influencing Integration Integrity 52

How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For example, in relation to ‘adequate transparency and explainability’, there is more of an emphasis on explainability than on transparency and there is no indication of how to gauge ‘adequacy’ in relation to either of them.

Innovation 57

Innovation Transparency Consulting Accountability 57

Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Compliance isn’t just about submitting reports; it involves adhering to federal acquisition regulations and maintaining ethical standards. Regular reporting on subcontracts is particularly crucial under certain federal programs that demand transparency about subcontractor involvement.

Government Contracts 52

Government Contracts Government Government Contract 52

ivalua

APRIL 8, 2020

As we have already seen in a former blog , enterprises often fail at maximizing the value of collaborating with smaller companies. It all starts with building up a transparent relationship. What are they transparent about? That is why, the group fully plays the trust card. . Only strategic suppliers are part of this matrix.

Supplier 59

Supplier Management Buyers Innovation 59

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

To properly assess risk, reduce carbon emissions and avoid ethics violations, leaders must map and assess the multi-tier supply chain. Improving Supplier Collaboration. An additional element to improve is the nature of supplier collaboration. Work must be done on testing and refining such approaches.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Risk Management Management Supplier 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

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. More recently, it canceled a RD$1.3

Corruption 71

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 71

ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

Even reducing costs often depends more on effective collaboration rather than negotiation in today’s market. Below, we outline the 5 steps toward modernizing supplier management, addressing both transparency and effective engagement. Enable effective, scalable collaboration. Gain control of your supplier data.

Supplier 52

Supplier Management Collaboration Supply Chain 52

FedScoop

APRIL 23, 2024

AI collaborations on basic and applied research should be supported across federal agencies, national laboratories, industry and academia, the report recommends. The second set of recommendations from PCAST centered on the responsible and transparent use of AI, with those principles employed in all stages of the scientific research process.

Risk Management 75

Risk Management Ethics Collaboration Data 75

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Candice Ling, senior vice president of Microsoft’s federal business , kicked off the conference with a call to action for government agencies to embark on a transformational journey through a process of co-innovation and collaboration to modernize government operations.

Innovation 78

Innovation Government Government Transparency 78

FedScoop

JANUARY 22, 2024

This risk raises critical ethical and legal issues — and also poses a challenge as federal agencies ramp up their efforts to support AI research. LAION doesn’t have a relationship with NSF, but a researcher affiliated with an NSF-funded AI research institute appears to have collaborated on a paper presenting the dataset.)

Collaboration 106

Collaboration Data Ethics Accountability 106

The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Currently, there are no fees to join the consortium, however, in order to provide members with access to meetings, additional consortium collaboration, and industry events, the consortium may introduce fees of up to $250 at a later date. He also noted the VA’s ongoing AI sprints, which aim to further lessen physician’s paperwork burden.

Inventory 52

Inventory Price Contract Supply Chain 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 31, 2023

Regulators should also collaborate with standards bodies to consider where standards could act as an alternative or underpin outcome-focused regulation ’ (at 7). If each regulator has conflicting constraints, what evidence (if any) is there that collaborative decision-making will reduce, rather than exacerbate, such regulatory clashes?

Innovation 52

Innovation Consulting Collaboration Supply Chain 52

AWS Public Sector

JULY 31, 2024

Trust and transparency will be prioritized as more data is collected and leveraged. Overall, contractual guarantees, financial transparency, competitive choice and commitments to localized Canadian presence that nurture national talent are crucial to deliver taxpayer value through cloud partnerships while upholding public sector duties.

Data 67

Data Government Government Demand 67