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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

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. The threshold challenge here is to ensure that there is sufficient information in the marketplace to make this kind of requirement workable.

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

Open Contracting Partnership

In a country where procurement auditing has largely been ad-hoc (if conducted at all), these partnerships are an experiment that aims not only to benefit the authorities involved, but to reveal best practices to inform the adoption of open, data-informed auditing on a larger scale.

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Collaborative Frameworks update: June 2024

Scottish Government Procurement

Framework Public Bodies will be notified in advance of the effective date of any new pricing and a new Lyreco catalogue will be uploaded in due course. The planned start date for the new framework is 11 July 2024. Framework Public Bodies will be notified upon award. The award is imminent and participating bodies will be notified very soon.

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

AWS Public Sector

Assemblyline generates information, assigns scores based on maliciousness, and can trigger alerts or automated defenses. Assemblyline génère des informations, attribue des scores en fonction du degré de malveillance des fichiers et peut déclencher des alertes ou des défenses automatisées.

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Dutch software company Negometrix to develop the national procurement system for all Bulgarian Public Entities

Mercell

The modules of the system include publishing all tender opportunities, receiving and evaluating offers, digitally signing of offers and contracts, e-Ordering, e-Catalogues, e-Invoicing, e-Payment.

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AWS helps Genomics England’s Multimodal programme accelerate research with whole slide images

AWS Public Sector

Pathologists have been looking at morphological patterns in patients’ tissue sections highlighted by hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining for more than a century. The value of multimodal data The value of a multimodal “pathogenomic” approach is intuitive, given the complementary information each dataset contributes.

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Hurricane Disaster Contracting – Steps to take now

aptac

For inexperienced players, it can be chaotic, confusing, and cut-throat, as informal subcontracting agreements are made on the ground which may not be enforceable and third-party firms falsely promise no-bid contracts to those who pay big bucks to be on a “priority vendors list” (there is no such list).