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What is the FAR: Your Guide to the Federal Acquisition Regulation

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This extensive set of rules ensures purchases are conducted fairly, efficiently, and in accordance with the law to best serve public interests. For instance, FAR includes a provision at 52.203-2, Certificate of Independent Price Determination, which ensures independent bids and prevents collusive pricing in government contracting.

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Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

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Procurement is thus seen as a mechanism of ‘regulation by contract’ whereby the public buyer can impose requirements seeking to achieve broad goals of digital regulation, such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability, or to operationalise more general ‘AI ethics’ frameworks.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

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The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. One of the most recent examples is an indicator that analyzes providers with connections among them (to identify collusion which is widespread in the country according to Pimentel).