The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

The Role of AI in Procurement AI offers powerful tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and transparency in procurement processes. By prioritizing innovation and collaboration, the country set a global standard for citizen-centric infrastructure. It is not just a participant in the digital revolution—it is its foundation.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 22, 2022

It hasn’t always been available to the public, but increasingly, they are making it visible as a way to build trust and be transparent with their constituents. To start providing transparency through data, agencies first need to get all employees up to speed on their data literacy. Why It Matters. And that’s not an easy task.

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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

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Extract Systems

AUGUST 1, 2023

Striking a balance between transparency and protecting sensitive information is a challenging task for government entities. To achieve this goal, the county collaborated with Extract Systems and their existing Case Management System (CMS) provider, PROWARE, to implement ID Shield software—a cutting-edge redaction solution.

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Public Contracting Institute

APRIL 1, 2024

In the era of digital transformation, blockchain technology emerges as a beacon of hope for enhancing transparency and integrity in public procurements. By leveraging blockchain’s capabilities, these entities can significantly mitigate corruption risks, streamline operations, and foster a more transparent procurement environment.

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Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This holistic strategy—anchored in transparency, accountability, and technological integration—fosters a robust fiscal environment conducive to sustainable economic growth and enhanced public trust. Better contracts and processes, for example, could reduce the risk of delays, quality problems or unexpected costs.

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FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

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. We aim to break the data silos.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 16, 2025

We moved from transparency to transformation. 79% found our resources very useful, too, and you asked us for more case studies and opportunities to exchange and collaborate. And we heard clearly from our community that this was just the kind of partner they were looking for. February: The UKs new public procurement regime goes live.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Waterman said the program authorization process needs to be “vigorous, repeatable, transparent and defensible,” as well as supported and enhanced by industry, aligned with agency interests and “backed by the full weight of the federal government as a trusted authorization.”

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FedScoop

AUGUST 20, 2024

Those recommendations include ensuring FedRAMP usage in agencies, releasing guidance for agencies’ implementation of transparent data requirements, modernizing legacy systems to avoid higher costs for maintenance, avoiding cybersecurity pitfalls and updating procedures for electronic information system functionalities for recordkeeping systems.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

The collaboration revolves around the corruption risk monitoring platform, Opentender.net , developed by ICW and the national public procurement agency LKPP. CSOs often collaborate in social services, but this is now collaboration with law enforcement to improve their regulation process.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

829M to expand Manufacturing USA – a network of 2,000+ private sector partners, institutions, and stakeholders who collaborate on tech and manufacturing initiatives. Part A: Manufacturing in the U.S. The Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act is the main anchor of the CHIPS and Science Act.

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Extract Systems

JUNE 27, 2023

Whether you're a CEO, a project manager, or a team leader, you're well aware of the importance of effective collaboration within your organization. So, let's dive into the realm of cross-functional collaboration and discover valuable insights and tips that can help you excel in your leadership role.

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2023

By integrating the EIC’s functionalities in their procurement practices, organizations can dramatically accelerate sustainability agendas with reliable emissions data for all the direct and indirect products and services they acquire, and establish transparent reporting standards.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2023

“What people are expecting is personalized, online, digital services for those things that can be digitized,” said Charlie Francis, Senior Consultant at Questica, which provides multi-user budgeting, performance measures, transparency and data visualization software for governments. The software also serves as a platform for collaboration.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 31, 2025

By implementing a comprehensive RACI matrix, public sector organizations can break down silos, foster better collaboration, and enable the successful delivery of technology solutions that meet the needs of both the central IT department and the individual agencies. Part two focuses on the three nontechnical perspectives of the AWS CAF.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

The military branch said Wednesday it will implement the Commercial Space Strategy through four lines of effort: collaborative transparency, operational and technical integration, risk management

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Open contracting approach : Uganda’s Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) worked collaboratively with civil society and a development partner, the German Development Agency GIZ to build a digital contract monitoring system. We only have three regional offices and hundreds of buyers.

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ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

Some of these challenges include limited: Ability to collaborate, identify opportunities or issues and act. Transparency, or ability to scale data, across an organization. With this information, procurement can rapidly identify and classify issues and then collaboratively work with suppliers on improvement plans.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 12, 2024

So far, Khan said, it’s led to better knowledge sharing and collaboration among bureaus, and advanced its efforts on artificial intelligence. The bureau CDO, or BCDO, program officially began in September 2022 as a way to improve its use, governance, and management of data throughout the department.

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FedScoop

JULY 17, 2024

The steering group’s work with cloud providers on these resources “put us in a position where we can go provide information to financial institutions and also the regulators, but also work collaboratively with these institutions.” The post Treasury group unveils guidance for financial sector on cloud adoption appeared first on FedScoop.

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GovLoop

MAY 22, 2023

The Solution: An Integrated Data Platform About one year later, the Chicago mayor’s office launched the Chicago Early Childhood Integrated Data System (CECIDS)— a new entity in which multiple agencies share data under a collaborative governance structure, and each agency is a “Data Governor.” A lot has been happening.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The guidance also indicates that ‘ Greater transparency of procurement data will make it easier to see what approaches have been successful and encourage use of those approaches more widely across the public sector.’ This further expands on the ambitions underpinning the Transforming Public Procurement project that started after Brexit.

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The Softly Spark

AUGUST 8, 2024

However, staying silent about your eco-friendly practices is not the solution – consumers crave transparency! Be transparent and qualify your green claims to maintain trust. Recent lawsuits illustrate how companies can modify their approach to communicating their environmental claims to ensure greater transparency.

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ivalua

JUNE 3, 2020

Significant opportunities to improve CSR performance, increase profitability and accelerate innovation linked to improving supplier collaboration. The research, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, found improving collaboration was a priority for 77% of respondents.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

About one year later, the Chicago mayor’s office launched the Chicago Early Childhood Integrated Data System (CECIDS) — a new entity in which multiple agencies share data under a collaborative governance structure, and each agency is a “Data Governor.”. The new data collaborative ties in with two other cloud-based Chicago initiatives.

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ivalua

JUNE 3, 2020

Significant opportunities to improve CSR performance, increase profitability and accelerate innovation linked to improving supplier collaboration. The research, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, found improving collaboration was a priority for 77% of respondents.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

This culture of ongoing feedback and collaboration enables individuals to receive timely, relevant guidance and support. Additionally, the transparency and visibility provided by this approach has fostered a more collaborative environment. At the same time, the number of applications per job decreased by 39%.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 24, 2024

They can address these challenges when they collaborate and share resources to accelerate digital transformation. Brighton & Hove council had already signed up to the Local Digital Declaration in 2018 , which encouraged councils to collaborate on digital projects. You select the pieces you need, then build your own add-ons.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

By Torplus Yomnak, Co-Founder of HAND Social Enterprise and the Director of the Knowledge Hub for Regional Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Collaboration (KRAC) In May 2021, amid the pandemic lockdowns, a villager in Thailand took a stroll on the outskirts of their town, making an unexpected discovery that would stir the local community.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Tyler Technologies will work to help public sector customers accelerate their migration to the cloud under an expanded strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services.

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ivalua

JUNE 11, 2023

It introduces several amendments to the NFRD and expands the scope of reporting obligations to foster greater transparency and comparability. Implications for Procurement & Supply Chain Supply Chain Due Diligence: The CSRD places increased emphasis on supply chain transparency and due diligence.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As teams worked with suppliers through creative solutions, it became obvious that transparency and supplier risk management are essential components to maintain stability during crises like these. Create speed and transparency. Making processes transparent enables everyone along the supply chain to react quickly.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

Ivalua is here to provide the Norwegian Public Sector with a cutting-edge solution to bolster maximum value from your financial resources, while promoting compliant and transparent operations. Though the private and public sectors may appear to be distinct entities, a closer look reveals many shared characteristics.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Thanks to the automation, transparency and seamless collaboration tools offered by Ivalua’s unified, cloud-based spend management platform, customers can improve profitability, drive innovation, improve ESG performance, and reduce risk. Know more about Raqmiyat at [link] and follow us @Raqmiyat.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 9, 2024

GSA identified additional benefits, including enhancing transparency across the federal market and increasing opportunities to leverage data towards best value acquisition strategies. GSA is to be commended for its efforts to date in adopting and implementing TDR. The TDR Journey to Date GSA first announced the “TDR Pilot” concept in 2015.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The post Asian Paints Successfully Digitizes the Source to Contract Process in Collaboration with Ivalua & Durvah appeared first on Ivalua. said Girish BS, Managing Director of Durvah IT Consulting. “It It gives us immense pleasure to be part of this success story at Asian Paints and also the Ivalua’s ecosystem. billion ($2.2

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