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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

Open Contracting Partnership

Traditional procurement approaches prioritised lowest price, which led to unintended consequences like accepting bids of lower quality, a lesser performance record or that did not adequately allow buyers to consider equity, sustainability or socio-economic objectives like creating local jobs.

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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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AWS Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance expands to Texas

AWS Public Sector

To help meet this demand for talent, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance is expanding into Texas, with support from key collaborators across industry, education and government. Central to these policies is the push to ensure post-secondary programming leads to high quality career pathways for Texans.

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Breaking silos worldwide; how Google Cloud is fueling public sector AI, collaboration and innovation

FedScoop

These tools enhance efficiency and change how governmental bodies collaborate, access information and serve the public. They also stressed the importance of transparency and continuous feedback and focused on the tangible benefits of eased workloads and enhanced efficiencies.

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Collaborate to Win

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The need for Procurement to improve collaboration with suppliers, and other stakeholders, has gained broad acceptance in recent years. Looking beyond Covid-19, virtually any of Procurement’s growing list of objectives can be better achieved through better collaboration. Improving CSR/sustainability? Accelerating innovation?

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Kicking Off 2025 at GovSpend Gathers

GovSpend

As importantly, in an age of remote work, the 2-day event is also a chance to collaborate and socialize. Written By: Nate Haskins, CEO Last week, GovSpend teammates from around the world convened at our headquarters in Boca Raton, FL for our annual GovSpend Gathers event. For this reason, I look forward to Gathers every year.

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Delivering Value Through Cross-Function Collaboration

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The Pixar building is one of the most vivid examples of how successful companies value cross functional collaboration within their organisation. This was delivered initially by having a sizeable atrium in the centre of the single office building to enable people to communicate, which it was assumed would lead to greater collaboration.