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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

Open Contracting Partnership

Improving public procurement, which accounts for one in every three dollars spent by governments, is one of the core ways countries can do more with the same – or less. As theOpen Contracting Partnership, we support transformational procurement reforms in over 50 countries. How can the Bank leverage this opportunity?

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Modernizing Public Infrastructure: The Power of Strategic Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

However, one critical element often overlooked in these discussions is public procurement. Far from being a mere bureaucratic task, procurement is the mechanism through which governments acquire the infrastructure and technology needed for this transformation.

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2024 – A year in review with the Public Procurement Group (PPG)

Scottish Government Procurement

As 2024 draws to a close, we take a look back at what has been achieved over the last year in Public Procurement in Scotland. We asked members of the Public Procurement Group (PPG) to summarise their sectors 2024 achievements. They show that the 16 billion of public procurement spend, we generated 13.8 billion to Scottish GDP.

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Governments need to plan for the entire product lifecycle when they purchase technology today

American City & Country

No question, government procurement is different from acquisitions outside the public sector, Cunningham believes. Here are a few more skills Cunningham feels belong on the IT purchasing team: project management, financial analysis and communication skills. Prioritize stakeholder engagement, including community input.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. Public procurement is key to this endeavor because public institutions and state enterprises must procure vast amounts of goods, services, and works to do their jobs.

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Ivalua Offers Employees a New Integrated Search e-commerce Experience with Amazon Business

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Employees can search across internally hosted supplier catalogs, Amazon Business and other supplier sites to see and compare the results side by side on a single screen, having a true consumer e-commerce experience at work. Tail spend has always been difficult to control by procurement teams.

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What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

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What does Procurement mean? An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis. What is Direct Procurement?