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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. Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. They measured several improvements in the public complaints handling process.

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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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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

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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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What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

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Capturing Value occurs when a contract has been established that governs the responsibilities and obligations of both supplier and buyer, and well as when the organization has the right Procure-to-Pay processes in place to ensure compliance to those agreements, goods, services and prices. . Direct vs Indirect Procurement.

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Friday Flash 04/26/2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement

The conference begins with remarks from Christine Harada , Senior Advisor in OMB’s Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), on the governmentwide Better Contracting Initiative , a four-pronged initiative to ensure that the Federal Government receives optimal terms and prices when purchasing goods and services.