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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. Results : Levels of green procurement uptake across Lithuanian public institutions have increased to 94% by value and 93% by total procedures as of 1 December 2023.

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Friday Flash 10/20/23

The Coalition for Government Procurement

In its place, the realignment focuses and centralizes MAS contracting management structure for the Office of Information Technology Category, the Office of Professional Services & Human Capital Categories, and the Office of General Supplies and Services Categories.

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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

Here, I reflect on these documents from the perspective of AI procurement as a major plank of this governance reform. Procurement in the AI Executive Order Section 2 of the AI Executive Order formulates eight guiding principles and priorities in advancing and governing the development and use of AI. Section 10.1(b) Section 10.1(b)

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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. As part of the U.S.

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Plaintiffs call for temporary restraining order in OPM email server lawsuit

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The lawsuit also cites reports that claim the server is retaining information about every employee of the U.S. The plaintiffs also claim that the server lacks proper federal security controls because it was established hurriedly, outside of federal procurement regulations and without any official oversight. Chief Judge James E.