Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM).

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At 2 am on Saturday morning, the day after the 10th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) was meant to end in Atlanta, exhausted negotiators finally adopted a resolution on “ Promoting transparency and integrity in public procurement in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ”.

Public Procurement 140

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement IT 140

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. There are several benefits to this transparent discussion. It all starts with procurement.

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Collaboration E-procurement Tender Bidding 57

FedScoop

JANUARY 22, 2025

This approach allows Rivian to easily combine capabilities to deliver integrated functions. Today, many vendors create capabilities to solve a single or small set of problems and the customer is left to integrate the systems themselves, rarely, if ever, achieving automated system operations. If a gap exists, bad actors will exploit it.

Automotive 68

Automotive Integration Integrity Electronics 68

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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Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 78

American City & Country

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Technologies once relied on to manage this process and reduce knowledge loss are no longer able to do so in an efficient, transparent way—skyrocketing costs, zapping institutional knowledge and worse. Today, many agencies are entangled in legacy systems that resist integration with modern AI solutions.

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GovSpend

JANUARY 22, 2025

2024: A Year of Milestones and Momentum at GovSpend We began the event with reflections on 2024, a year where we set records for nearly every metric we track – users, product usage, new features released, and new highs for every data metric weve ever tracked.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

That principle pushes employers and developers to integrate “early and regular input from workers into the adoption and use of AI.” Centering worker empowerment is considered by DOL to be the document’s “North Star.”

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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 standards and interoperability requirements are integrated into procurement specifications.

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Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 138

FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2024

Additionally, NASA has since implemented all three integration offerings from USA Staffing: request processing, new hire and data APIs. Sharpe said that these changes will help those responsible for hiring to have data flow across systems “without duplicative effort and reducing the risk of human error.”

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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. Extract Systems' redaction software boasts a powerful OCR engine that utilizes machine learning to classify documents and identify data within complex unstructured files.

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FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

But the agency’s provisional approval of a few generative AI products — which include ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Claude 2, DALL-E2, and Grammarly, per a privacy impact assessment — call for closer examination in regard to federal transparency. Zhou also pointed to record management and data storage as a potential issue.

Electronics 134

Electronics Impact Assessment Transparency Thresholds 134

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Instances of favoritism, corruption, and misallocation of resources have raised alarming questions about the integrity of the procurement process. But at the heart of this transformation lies the principle of transparency. However, the real challenge lies in translating these principles into effective practices.

Public Procurement 123

Public Procurement Procurement Corruption Transparency 123

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. Formal guidelines have been introduced in several regions to ensure data-driven audits are conducted to a high standard. There was also a lack of data on the volume and outcome of audits. Semarang City made a similar agreement in 2023.

Corruption 90

Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 26, 2024

They are trying to unlock insights from their data, deliver better customer experiences, and improve operations using cutting-edge technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and other data analytics tools. This approach also led to the creation of data silos.

Data 78

Data Government Government Insurance 78

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Open source geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) analyses along with Internet of Things (IoT)-connected sensors can power near real-time data built on the cloud and assist in decision-making. project is designed to use geospatial big data and AI/ML to mitigate the impact of deforestation. The SeloVerde 2.1

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Data Sustainability Transparency 75

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. One such example is the development of cloud-enabled electronic health records (EHRs).

Data 80

Data Sustainability Innovation Electronics 80

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. Unfortunately ,they often have not been adequately integrated into the design of e-GP systems. Inefficiencies, data duplication, and reduced transparency often result.

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E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Transparency 82

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Second, the realignment provides an opportunity to increase transparency for customer agencies and industry partners seeking to do business with FAS. The new structure also can enhance transparency with regard to guidance impacting the MAS program. Third, the alignment provides an opportunity to improve data management.

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Negotiation Price Transparency Data 99

AWS Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

It references an authoritative knowledge base outside of its training data sources before generating a response. It can further integrate individual data with the extensive general knowledge of the FM to personalize chatbot interactions. Architecture diagram of loading data into the vector store.

Evaluation 128

Evaluation Data Efficiency Integration 128

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.

Supply Chain 98

Supply Chain Innovation Supplier Sustainability 98

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Advanced analytics tools are being integrated into procurement operations, enabling public and private organisations to rethink procurement processes, supplier relationships and cost optimisation. It focuses on how public sector entities can enhance compliance and transparency. What is Data Analytics in Procurement?

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Data Procurement Supply Chain 52

FedScoop

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Specifically, the RFI cites wanting to explore command and control [C2] systems that are “highly agile and adaptable to evolving threats,” and have capabilities that enable “seamless integration of sensors, effectors and C2 algorithms” from various suppliers.

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Transparency Supplier Data Integration 109

FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

“A review by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that IRS had no documentation to support the underlying data, analysis, or assumptions used for Direct File cost estimates. Taken together, these steps should help support data-driven evaluation by IRS leadership and members of Congress.” We found this as well.

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Accountability Price Electronics Data 118

FedScoop

JUNE 18, 2024

million investment, the FEC is looking to modernize its FECFile Online software, making it cloud-based and web-accessible for filers so that it “improves data quality and enhances security.” With an $8.8 Larry Bafundo, acting TMF executive director, said in a statement that people are “at the heart of every TMF investment.”

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Finance Education Transparency Quality 122

GovLoop

MAY 10, 2024

In Part 1 , we told you about some of the ways government agencies are using data to make a difference. But data — collected regularly — helps agencies compete by enabling them to monitor trends and plan. To foster a healthy and productive workforce, effective data analysis : Integrates disparate HR systems and eliminates data silos.

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Data Public Private Partnership Transparency Management 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

Written by Isabelle Adam and published on the ACE-Global Integrity blog. In a previous blog , we explored some common problems data scientists encounter when collecting and analyzing data. Publish all data in one place (ideally the CPPP website) in machine-readable format (e.g., CSV, JSON, XML) to improve usability.

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Data Procurement Tender Public Procurement 52

GovSpend

APRIL 29, 2024

Delving into data is a passion of mine. Whether analyzing financials, customer KPIs, marketing data, or federal spending data, I rely on data for not just monitoring the performance of our business and our government, but for making informed decisions with real-time information.

Data 52

Data Contract Price Procurement 52

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 15, 2024

Business considerations: Appoint a cross-functional team A cross-functional team will be best able to balance AI skills with knowledge of the target business process(es) and considerations around the source data and what happens to it. If your use case means you need to train a bespoke machine learning (ML) model, then you’ll need data.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Written by Elizabeth David-Barrett and originally published on the ACE-Global Integrity blog. Open data is often lauded as a magic pill for anti-corruption: reveal what’s going on, inform the public, and, presto, government will become more accountable. Oh, and big data just means bigger gains, right?

Data 52

Data Public Procurement Procurement Buyers 52

GovLoop

MARCH 21, 2024

Building a large AI data model from scratch is prohibitively expensive for most organizations. These models are trained on a broad range of data, a wide understanding of language and concepts and images,” said John Dvorak, Chief Technology Officer for Red Hat North America Public Sector.

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GovLoop

MARCH 5, 2024

But there are strategies that make effective cyberattacks less likely and that protect data on which government depends. It’s a matter of if, not when,” said Chris Sprague, Principal Technologist with Pure Storage, which delivers forward-thinking security and data protection via a cloud experience. Breaches will happen.

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Data Corruption Networking Transparency 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes. The number one source of data is the e-GP system, starting at the planning stage.

Public Procurement 80

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 80

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Written by Isabelle Adam and originally published on the ACE-Global Integrity blog. For years, the benefits of transparency as a policy tool to increase accountability and counter corruption have been lauded. In public procurement, this has given rise to a global movement promoting procurement data transparency, a.k.a.

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Public Procurement Transparency Procurement E-procurement 40

Capital Edge Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2024

These systems must be capable of accurately recording and reporting financial data in compliance with federal regulations. The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) ensures that government contractors comply with strict financial regulations to maintain the integrity of federal funds.

Accountability 52

Accountability Internal Control Government Contracts Consulting 52

Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the era of ‘big data,’ a term that undoubtedly describes the large and complex datasets that businesses generate and exchange, it is increasingly complex for international businesses to navigate the challenge of storing, processing, and analysing their data.

Data 59

Data Participation Corruption Transparency 59

ivalua

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

UAE-based System Integrator and Digital Enabler will be a partner for Ivalua’s eProcurement solution in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Raqmiyat , a leading system integrator and digital enabler, is pleased to announce the partnership with Ivalua , a global leader in spend management. Dubai, UAE, 15 November 2022.

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Procurement Eprocurement Supplier Media 98