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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

Around the world, governments are embracing “green procurement” – environmentally sustainable strategies to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution. A ” catalogue ” of green procurement strategies in the European Union and the United States, prepared by the European Commission and the Office of the U.S.

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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

Fragmented and inconsistent auditing practices across the decentralized government system have impeded effective oversight. Delays were inevitable as the systems and processes for vetting, investigating, and responding to public complaints were fragmented, involving about 600 decentralized government agencies at the local and national level.

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The power of collaboration accelerates public sector transformation in Iceland

AWS Public Sector

The overall goal was to streamline the way citizens and businesses access government services by creating more efficient, effective, and user-centric digital services and infrastructure. Though Iceland is a small country, it now ranks fifth in the UN’s global E-Government Survey from 19th when the project started.

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Collaborative Frameworks update: June 2024

Scottish Government Procurement

Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate’s National Collaborative Procurement Division (NCPD) administers the Scottish national collaborative frameworks and contracts for the whole of the Scottish Public Sector, as well as agreements that can be accessed by central government organisations of the Scottish Government. to £281.31

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Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity’s Assemblyline brings powerful malware analysis to AWS Marketplace

AWS Public Sector

Its crucial mission involves protecting Canada’s critical cyber assets, including federal government systems. Assemblyline sur AWS Marketplace AWS est fière d’annoncer que cette année, au cours de la 9 e édition de la GeekWeek, le Centre pour la cybersécurité a lancé Assemblyline sur AWS Marketplace.

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Hurricane Disaster Contracting – Steps to take now

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Government officials in charge of relief efforts are overwhelmed and information may be hard to come by. State and local government agencies control a large proportion of disaster response activities, so many of the contracting opportunities will come through these offices. What is a small contractor to do?

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

Open Contracting Partnership

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