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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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.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

More often than not, public procurement of technology is viewed as non-transparent, uncompetitive, poorly planned, inefficient, costly, and having high failure rates. Solution: Open procurement encourages collaboration with external experts, leveraging public-private partnerships or industry consultations.

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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.

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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. Cross-agency collaboration is essential to foster a unified approach to procurement, wherein digital tools and policies align harmoniously.

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Public Procurement Procurement Strategic Planning Balance 52

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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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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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. Instead, we fell in love with the challenge of transforming one of governments most essential but overlooked, unloved, and underappreciated functions.

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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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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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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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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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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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Supplier Collaboration Supply Chain Finance 52

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.”

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Collaboration Education Public Private Partnership Data 52

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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Collaboration Education Public Private Partnership Data 52

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.”

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Transparency Participation Collaboration Import 135

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

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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Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

ONC said in a press release that it collaborated on the plan with 25 federal agencies that interact with health IT through purchasing, developing and regulating in order to improve health outcomes. The post HHS IT draft strategy aims to connect health data with systems appeared first on FedScoop.

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Data IT Strategic Planning Electronics 104

AWS Public Sector

JULY 24, 2024

They can address these challenges when they collaborate and share resources to accelerate digital transformation. In this post, I explain how councils used collaboration and shared resources to develop this digital public infrastructure which has reduced the cost of building council websites by up to 80 percent and delivered better services.

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Government Government Collaboration Transparency 72

GovSpend

JANUARY 22, 2025

As importantly, in an age of remote work, the 2-day event is also a chance to collaborate and socialize. Gathers provides the opportunity to reflect on the past year and discuss our strategic roadmap for 2025. For this reason, I look forward to Gathers every year.

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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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Collaboration Transparency IT 59

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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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. You can access our RACI template to get started.

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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.’ Especially as most of this (and in particular collaboration and voluntary knowledge exchange) could already take place.

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Procurement Innovation E-procurement Buyers 128

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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Supply Chain Finance Procurement Sustainability 98

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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Corruption Data Procurement Public Procurement 113

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.

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Management Evaluation Efficiency Collaboration 94

ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In this capacity, Landry will facilitate engagement with Department of Defense communities to advance data sharing, collaboration, transparency and adoption of commercial platforms. Space Force colonel, as government programs director, Fierce Network reported Monday.

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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. Transparency in the development of any pricing guidance that impacts MAS contractors will be vital to the long-term success of TDR and the MAS program.

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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.

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Collaboration Supplier Contract Supply Chain 52

FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2024

NASA’s maximization of USA Staffing’s data and interconnection capabilities has increased automation, transparency, data quality and enhanced the overall hiring manager and HR user experience throughout the hiring process,” Sharpe said in the email.

Quality 120

Quality Evaluation Data Integration 120

ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

55% of our respondents cited collaboration with all stakeholders to set improvement goals as top strategy to improve sustainability. Businesses are starting to shift their principles, becoming more transparent, collaborative, and environmentally responsible to adhere to sustainability initiatives.

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Procurement Strategies Sustainability Procurement Supply Chain 96

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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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

With its mix of charm, history, and major public works set to transform its infrastructure for the future, Rome was the perfect backdrop for our event which was all about harnessing our collective knowledge to make procurement more results-driven, transparent, and impactful across Europe. Watch this space! Watch this space!

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Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Transparency 67

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.

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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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