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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. A focus on integrity and transparency “When we started on Monday, 17 August 2020, the main challenge was linked to credibility and a lack of trust,” Pimentel reflects.

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

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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.

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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.