Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. The system works by collecting public procurement data and structuring it in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.

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Data Public Procurement Tender Price 55

The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 21, 2024

Data management tools, like pricing algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), are playing an ever-larger role in Federal procurement as agencies look to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and improve contract outcomes. Coalition members generally support the use of these new data management technologies.

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Transparency Data Procurement Management 64

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

But effective implementation of these plans is being hampered by a lack of reliable, factual and understandable information sources for citizens and civil society to monitor the operations of state-owned mining companies for efficiency and corruption risks. Enter Data Club This is where our work at the Mongolian Data Club comes in.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

AI offers government agencies unprecedented opportunities to enhance efficiency, improve decision-making and deliver better services to citizens. They may face challenges deciding where to house AI infrastructure and when creating guardrails for safe data usage, including bias removal and data authenticity.

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Quality Ethics Data Import 52

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is a guest post by Suzanne Wait with the Health Policy Partnership and Dipak Kalra, from the European Institute for Innovation in Health Data The health sector holds approximately one third of the world’s total volume of data.

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Data Sustainability Innovation Electronics 72

GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

Having worked in Texas state government for more than 15 years, Chief Data Officer Neil Cooke understands firsthand the difference that data can make. During his seven years there, he and his team looked at how to use data to measure various programs’ performance. One key concern is data lineage: Where did the data come from?

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Data Education Quality Strategic Planning 52

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A lack of available water quality data makes it difficult to provide decision support in water-related sectors such as food production, energy security, health, economic development, and climate change resilience. Data is key to addressing current water challenges.

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GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With an extensive background in data management, Nate brings a unique skillset to the helm and is well-equipped to lead GovSpend into a new chapter of data delivery and AI technology. Government procurement should be transparent and efficient. At its heart, GovSpend is a data company, and I’m a data wonk.

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Data Quality Purchasing Transparency 105

FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2024

Additionally, NASA has since implemented all three integration offerings from USA Staffing: request processing, new hire and data APIs. USA Staffing is looking to design new tools so HR professionals and hiring managers can more efficiently hire at scale.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 14, 2024

These actions range from improving IT infrastructure efficiency, to empowering sustainable hybrid working environments, to carbon accounting and smart building energy efficiencies, and more. Meath County Council in Ireland is utilising AWS technology for the purposes of gathering public health data to influence behavioural change.

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Sustainability Data Quality Efficiency 74

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Federal human resources employees now have a standard set of data and business elements, and performance measures to lean on as they modernize their hiring and other processes. The HR Line of Business and Quality Service Management Office completed this year-old effort earlier this summer to update the HR business reference architecture.

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Management Quality Data Import 110

ivalua

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Redwood, CA, 20th December 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that Canada’s largest co-operative, Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), has gone live with its source-to-contract solution which includes a seamless integration to TealBook, the leading supplier data foundation.

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Supplier Integrity Integration Retail 52

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 1, 2024

For fine-tuning the FM, an LLM is trained on a specific task or dataset, using data and computational resources. Generative AI is an area of active research that frequently produces new findings that lead to increased capabilities in new models, as well as new methods to run and maintain existing models more efficiently.

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Evaluation Data Efficiency Integration 78

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 8, 2024

This can help them answer customer queries efficiently, pinpoint significant changes to contracts, and assess risks such as fraud more accurately. Common use cases in public sector could be determining the best way to reduce Friday afternoon congestion, or how to manage building utilities more efficiently.

Transparency 72

Transparency Efficiency Data Utilities 72

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In this blog post, we cover public sector use cases that are driving the adoption of serverless and containers, such as generative AI, data analytics, document processing, and more. Containers enhance and modernize public sector applications with improved application quality, portability, security, scalability, and fault isolation.

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Efficiency Total Cost of Ownership Data Insurance 118

Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

So we are in a position now where we validate that a vendor is covered by a NIST assessment if they’re going to have access to unclassified data or covered defense information. We’re also leveraging new technology to improve contracting efficiency.” . “NIST is the precursor.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Quality Requirements : They describe the quality and specifications of the goods , services , or works required. Non-Consulting Services : Bidding Procedures : Instructions to bidders, bid data sheet, evaluation and qualification criteria, bidding forms, and eligible countries.

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Public Procurement Bidding Procurement Bidder 91

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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Collaboration Innovation Efficiency Integration 66

Extract Systems

APRIL 9, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of government technology, the importance of data governance and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be overstated. As government agencies increasingly turn to generative AI solutions, the implications of poor data quality become even more pronounced.

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Transparency Integration Integrity Data 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

These frameworks have led to big efficiency wins: the traditional tender procedures take between four months and one year to complete while the framework procedure takes between four and six weeks on average. Before G-Cloud, the average IT tender elicited three to four bids; after G-Cloud, it elicits eight or nine.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fiscal cliff can lead to a range of negative outcomes that diminish community quality of life, strain household finances and stifle economic growth, including: Reduced services: Local governments may be forced to cut essential services, including public safety, education, transportation and social services.

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Government Government Budget Quality 52

Extract Systems

JANUARY 23, 2024

For government agencies, the efficient management of vast amounts of information is crucial. Our dashboard reports on the day-to-day production and quality assurance workflows for both automated indexing and redaction. Here at Extract Systems, we offer cutting-edge solutions to streamline business processes.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Integration Integrity Media 52

AWS Public Sector

JULY 25, 2024

In this post, we will delve into the architectural approach Kite Consult and our customers adopted to meet the stringent compliance requirements of healthcare organizations and ensure resilient and efficient cloud operations utilizing AWS offerings.

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Consulting Networking Data Management 67

Public Contracting Institute

JULY 12, 2024

Key Areas for Due Diligence: Financial stability Past performance Technical capabilities Compliance history Quality control processes 3. Implementing Quality Control Measures Maintaining high-quality standards throughout your supply chain is crucial for project success and risk mitigation.

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Management Government Government Quality 52

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2024

Frugal architecture at the Urban Institute The Urban Institute has been producing rigorous data and evidence to support policy solutions since President Lyndon Johnson founded the organization in 1968. This example shows how to generate Stata and R syntax to summarize K-12 student enrollment data.

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Innovation Data Education Quality 67

Extract Systems

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The proposed solution will remove personal data such as social security numbers, addresses, and medical information from case files involving minors. Like most courts, Los Angeles is looking to protect the sensitive data but do so in an efficient manner. Accenture PLC is the vendor for the AI solution.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Data Quality Management 52

ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

The data in this case is text from natural language , which is rarely structured data. It can be found in any human communications, either live conversations (ch atbots, email, speech to text devices …) or stored publicly on the Internet or privately as textual data in databases.

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Data Management Contract E-procurement 60

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate. When choosing a model, it’s important to understand its training data. 2018) dataset.

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Procurement Public Procurement Green Public Procurement Electronics 58

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The AWS framework helps EdTechs improve cost efficiency, assess functionality expansion, and grow market share, by aligning pricing with solution value to students and institutions. Applying the CFM framework in your company The methodology follows a four-step, data-driven approach: 1.

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Price Demand Education Efficiency 67

Extract Systems

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This begs the question…what is the best way to identify documents that need to be updated in the most efficient manner possible? Digitizing and analyzing this data at scale necessitates sophisticated technology and skilled professionals. Removing these clauses requires meticulous work, and the technical complexities are significant.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Data Quality Management 52

Extract Systems

MARCH 19, 2024

In the fast-paced world of government information management, the need for efficiency, accuracy, and compliance is paramount. One area that demands careful attention is the redaction and indexing of sensitive data. The sheer volume of data handled by government agencies often leads to delays and increases the risk of inaccuracies.

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Integration Integrity Data Efficiency 52

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 19, 2024

Introduction Government agencies are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to extract valuable insights from their data in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) Regions. This will help our fine-tuned language model recognize a common query format. Python environment.

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Import Data Quality Efficiency 113

FedScoop

JUNE 5, 2024

A beginner hacker can go to the intermediate level,” she said, “and even the most sophisticated adversaries can be more efficient.” Streamlining data and threat intel leads to more valuable insights that State can provide to its partners, he added. “If

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Public Private Partnership Collaboration Engineering Data 127

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The datasets not only republish structured data gathered from official source websites, but also contain corruption risk red flags developed by the research team. Data and documentation Find the first iteration of these datasets and accompanying source data and documentation here, and the second iteration here.

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Data Corruption Tender Contract 40

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JULY 28, 2023

Information AI allows procurement teams to mine huge amounts of complex data. With the vast amounts of external data that AI has access to, it can provide more information in real-time, which procurement teams can use to facilitate and improve their decision-making.

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Procurement Procurement Team Supply Chain Quality 52

Tracker Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2024

They are very vital in making sure that health care institutions get the necessary resources to be able to provide quality health care to patients. It is more efficient and effective as it narrows down the search to only the most relevant opportunities.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 3, 2024

Demonstrating its commitment to putting customers first, MVD wants to deliver fast, efficient, and friendly customer service by reducing call wait time. With the help of Kyndryl and Amazon Web Services (AWS), MVD migrated its business service desk into Amazon Connect to improve customer service, increase efficiency, and save costs.

Efficiency 74

Efficiency Transportation Transportation Telecommunication 74