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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023. The reformers share their top tips on implementing green procurement here.

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Correspondingly, it also will increase competition and access to commercial services, solutions, and products by eliminating the significant variations in the application of the key MAS procurement rules across the program, all to the benefits of customer agencies, GSA, and industry partners.

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Some thoughts on the US' Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of AI

How to Crack a Nut

The use of AI by the US Federal Government is an important focus of the AI Executive Order. It will be subject to a new governance regime detailed in the Draft Policy on the use of AI in the Federal Government (the ‘Draft AI in Government Policy’, see also its Factsheet ), which is open for comment until 5 December 2023.

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How USAID employees were blocked from making payments

FedScoop

Large swaths of workers at USAID have been blocked from implementing payments by being shut out of a pair of web platforms used to assist in agency procurement, according to two sources familiar with the matter. GLAAS is an adapted version of PRISM, a procurement tool thats used throughout the federal government.

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Plaintiffs call for temporary restraining order in OPM email server lawsuit

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OPM has used the server to send several test emails to workers across the government as well as the administration’s now infamous Fork in the Road email , in which it offered deferred resignations to slash the federal workforce, and several FAQ follow-ups. Chief Judge James E. District Court for the District of Columbia.