Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These agreements take on even greater importance under the Procurement Act 2023, with greater emphasis on transparency, competition and sustainability. Common concerns include transparency, fairness, especially when small suppliers feel dominated by big competitors in multi supplier frameworks. What Are Framework Agreements?

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Author: Graham Allen In the second of two parts of “Navigation the Five Steps of the Procurement Journey” we’ll be covering posting, evaluation, award and close out. The presentation and all questions and answers are posted as an addendum in keeping with the public procurement tenets of open, fair and transparent.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Key Principles Of Public Procurement Transparency: Clear and Open Processes Public contracts aren’t handed out in secret. Governments aim to support ethical, sustainable businesses while getting the best value. This allows contracting authorities or public sector organisations to evaluate and choose the best supplier.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There seemed to be some recognition of the need for more State intervention through regulation, for more regulatory control of standard-setting, and for more attention to be paid to testing and evaluation in the procurement context. Public procurement is an opportunity to put into practice how we will evaluate and use technology.’

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It focuses on how public sector entities can enhance compliance and transparency. Transparency and Compliance Procurement data analytics allows public sector businesses to increase transparency by having up-to-date information on supplier risk, spending analysis, and procurement contracts. What is Data Analytics in Procurement?

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The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. More complex procurements such as IT software, with technical evaluation criteria will use a Request for Proposal (RFP). A RACI chart is part of the requirements gathering phase.

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The Procurement School

JUNE 27, 2024

Introduction: In the realm of Canadian public sector procurement, understanding the fundamental principles of contract law is essential for ensuring fair, transparent, and effective practices. Practical Application: In the context of procurement, the duty of good faith necessitates transparent and fair dealings with all potential suppliers.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

However, this technology has not yet registered a significant foothold when it comes to the evaluation process. Indeed, unlike other elements related to the monitoring and effectiveness of spending control, the issue of using AI tools contain its own legal and ethical quandaries. This process, at present, is not without its faults.

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The Softly Spark

JULY 6, 2023

Achieving a sustainability certification signifies a business’s dedication to minimizing its ecological footprint, promoting ethical practices, and contributing to a better future. Organization-based certifications Evaluate a company’s overall sustainability practices and management systems.

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The Softly Spark

JANUARY 13, 2025

Consumers today expect transparency, proof, and meaningful action. Communicate and Engage with Consumers Being transparent and honest about your commitment to sustainability is essential for effectively connecting with your environmentally conscious customers. Aligning with partners who share your values can promote ethical practices.

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The Procurement School

JANUARY 22, 2024

This is an indication of the level of transparency and accountability required by public procurement professionals. While that may be the alarmist’s view it supports the idea of preparing a strong procurement document to align with the public procurement principles of open, fair and transparent.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 20, 2024

It typically involves the following steps: Identifying opportunities Reviewing solicitation documents Attending pre-bid meetings Preparing and submitting a responsive bid Participating in bid evaluation and negotiations To excel in the bidding process, consider enrolling in our Life Sciences Contracting 101 course.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 10, 2023

One feature that could become a nationwide trend: Rather than try to explain the mysteries of AI algorithms, the law evaluates bias based on AI impacts — that is, how it affects a protected group of job applicants. These outcomes are deeply harmful — but they are not inevitable.” This article appears in our new guide, “ AI: A Crash Course.”

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Select GCR

MAY 14, 2024

Key Takeaways The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is the comprehensive set of rules that govern the procurement process of the US federal government, ensuring consistency, ethical practice, and efficiency across all executive agencies. These provisions and clauses are instrumental in ensuring fair and ethical procurement practices.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 10, 2023

Procurement is thus seen as a mechanism of ‘regulation by contract’ whereby the public buyer can impose requirements seeking to achieve broad goals of digital regulation, such as transparency, trustworthiness, or explainability, or to operationalise more general ‘AI ethics’ frameworks.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Transparent criteria for evaluating social value proposals allow for fair competition among suppliers while keeping them liable for their commitments. Ethical labour standards are non-negotiable, ensuring workers’ rights and well-being are protected throughout the supply chain.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

RFP simplification involves careful consideration of evaluation criteria and with desired outcomes identified. Trade treaties and organizational policies have specific rules to ensure fairness and transparency that prohibit bias and preference.

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ivalua

APRIL 8, 2020

It all starts with building up a transparent relationship. What are they transparent about? As most Procurement organizations do, they evaluate their suppliers. That is why, the group fully plays the trust card. . How do you build such an asset and how does it turn into better innovation?

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

They work with agency partners to assess AI tools regarding bias mitigation, fairness, transparency, accountability and privacy. For managers, Kinnard says it’s critical to understand the ethical issues that may complicate AI use. Her team also manages AI platforms, monitoring who uses them and what data flows through them.

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How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

transparency for image manipulation), or substantial requirements (e.g. Weighing Risks A third idea, similar to the one above, would be to focus on weighting the main risks presented by the AI tool by enhancing their relevance in the technical evaluation of the offers. facial recognition via CCTV footage scraping). proof-of-concept).

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Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Evaluation 59

Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 20, 2024

Another arises from how generative AI models leverage intricate probabilistic computations to produce outputs that exhibit a remarkable degree of authenticity, even though the underlying mechanism is more akin to a sophisticated statistical estimation than a transparent reasoning process. Where rules and regulations (e.g.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

Third, there is the issue of the use of AI by contracting authorities, eg in relation to qualitative selection/exclusion, or evaluation/award decisions. That is the entire logic of the exclusion, qualitative selection and evaluation processes. The AI PPN covers aspects of. I will try to disentangle them here.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

To properly assess risk, reduce carbon emissions and avoid ethics violations, leaders must map and assess the multi-tier supply chain. Supplier risk management too often focuses on evaluating the risk level of each supplier and selecting lower risk ones when possible. Supply chains are increasingly critical to success or failure.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 31, 2024

For public sector IT leaders evaluating infrastructure strategies, this post offers an in-depth look at how AWS Cloud technology can unlock the possibilities of open data for the public good. Trust and transparency will be prioritized as more data is collected and leveraged.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

Technology must be employed that supports securely sharing all relevant information between internal stakeholders and suppliers, and it must support effective planning and transparency for project teams. Disruptions, ethical and compliance risks are more likely to occur deep in your supply chain. Second, map your sub-tier.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has published a report on Transparency in the procurement of algorithmic systems (for short, the ‘AI procurement report’). The report stresses this issue: ‘ common or standard metrics do not yet exist within industry for the evaluation of [algorithmic systems].

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Compliance isn’t just about submitting reports; it involves adhering to federal acquisition regulations and maintaining ethical standards. Regular reporting on subcontracts is particularly crucial under certain federal programs that demand transparency about subcontractor involvement.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The notice states that to ensure customer satisfaction, GSA would like to increase transparency on facets of contractor performance such as on-time delivery and cancellation rates. The award decisions received protests on the evaluations of small business participation, veteran employment, and relevant experience.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Key Takeaways Federal contractors must adhere to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which ensures fair, transparent, and efficient procurement processes. Governed by a comprehensive set of laws and regulations, this process ensures fairness, transparency, and accountability.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

AI tools must be used ethically, avoiding biases and ensuring fairness and transparency in decision-making processes,” the guidelines state. AI should be used for business functions that are well understood and where staff have the knowledge and skills to evaluate performance,” the U.S.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The sole source justification process is rigorous and requires approval from the organization’s procurement services, with steps including the completion and review of a justification form, internal review and approvals, and adherence to transparency and compliance regulations to manage risks effectively.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 29, 2024

Among the most significant draft requirements are those related to the disclosure and transparency of AI and machine learning (ML). By doing so, NIST underscores its commitment to fostering secure, trustworthy, and transparent AI, while also addressing broader implications of bias and accountability.

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FedInsider

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

She has been working closely with customers on ethical and responsible AI, building it in and not bolting it on. Jaime Fitzgibbon, Program Manager of AI/ML Portfolio for the Defense Innovation unit shares how though AI proves to make DoD more efficient, military leaders remain cautious, but do appropriate a small budget toward AI.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Relatedly, the Department is authorized to evaluate risks associated with the likelihood that an IaaS product or provider may be used for malicious cyber-enabled activity, and recommend remediation measures to address such risks. Access the recording here. For any assistance, please contact Michael Hanafin at mhanafin@thecgp.org.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In my view, this tackles two of the most important implications for individuals in Government use of AI: the possibility to understand why decisions are made (reason giving duties) and the burden of challenging automated decisions, which is increased if there is a lack of transparency on the automation. Section 10.1(b) Section 10.1(b)

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Under the TBD AI Act , NIST would also be required to come up with definitions for key trustworthiness evaluation criteria that federal agencies would follow, and select which AI system components would be subject to evaluations throughout every step of the development process. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Ben Ray Lujn, D-N.M.,

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