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When should procurement be outsourced?

The Procurement School

AUGUST 21, 2024

Factors which influence outsourcing: Smaller public entities, in terms of budgets, typically do not fund staffing resources for procurement. Consistently, external auditor findings have shown the lack of professionalism in procurement to be a financial problem often accompanied with ethical dilemmas. Outsourcing is getting attention.

Procurement

Procurement Competitive Bidding Public Procurement Supplier

Sole Source Procurement: A Guide to Single-Source Acquisitions

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.

Procurement

Procurement Supplier Price Competitive Bidding

Johannesburg Arbitration Week: Southern Africa to Step into the International Arbitration Spotlight

Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

The week also promises comprehensive explorations into the African Continental Free Trade Area, delving into the future of investment protection, technological impacts on arbitration, and ethical standards, contributing significantly to the global arbitration dialogue.

Ethics

Ethics Influencing Integration Integrity

Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

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.

Procurement

Procurement Public Procurement Ethics Transparency

Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

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.

Procurement

Procurement Tender Buyers Contract

Bucharest Arbitration Days 2024: Critical Developments in International Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 12, 2024

Stefan Deaconu (Court of International Commercial Arbitration, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania) emphasised the importance of maintaining trust in the arbitral process, tracing back to ethics, legitimacy, and personal reputation. Ethics and Conflicts in International Arbitration Panel 1 was moderated by Julie Bedard.

Ethics

Ethics Balance Import Thresholds

European Commission Publishes Non-Paper of Model Clauses for Member States’ Bilateral Investment Agreements with Third Countries

Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Legal and Regulatory Transparency The Model Clauses propose an Article on transparency, which requires publishing laws and regulations of general application that may affect investors. A host State’s exercise of powers of any ordinary commercial actor (e.g.,

Negotiation

Negotiation Supply Chain Education Transparency

2023 Year in Review: A Look at International Arbitration in California

Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 28, 2024

CLE Credit will be offered for many of the presentations including “Women in Arbitration – California Stories,” “Navigating Arbitrator Disclosures and Challenges in International Arbitration,” and “Ethical Conundrums Faced by Parties and Arbitrators in International Arbitration.” Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin, et al. Vitaly Ivanovich Smagin , No.

Corruption

Corruption Participation Efficiency Ethics

SIAC Symposium 2023 Part 2: Charting the Future of International Arbitration – Insights into Regional and Topical Developments and Trends

Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Factors influencing these choices include the backing of a robust and pro-arbitration judiciary, comprehensive legislative frameworks, and legal predictability. The panel reached a conclusive consensus to emphasize the need for ethical, fair, and transparent deployment of AI in arbitration.

Import

Import Efficiency Transparency Supply Chain

Did you use AI to write this tender? What? Just asking! -- Also, how will you use AI to deliver this contract?

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

Perhaps the best evidence of the complexity of the mushrooming sets of guidance is that the PPN itself includes in Annex A a reference to the January 2024 Guidance to civil servants on use of generative AI, which has been superseded by the Generative AI Framework for HMG, to which it also refers in Annex A. 57(8)(i)(ii) PCR2015 and sch.7

Tender

Tender Contract Bidding Supplier

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

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.

Risk Management

Risk Management E-procurement Procurement Evaluation

The Importance of Thoroughly Screening Election Poll Workers

American City & Country

AUGUST 26, 2024

Ensuring secure and transparent elections. Adequate background checks designed for government workers can help build public trust in the electoral system and prevent any legal or ethical issues that may arise from individuals with malicious intent or those who may be susceptible to coercion from influencing the election process.

Import

Import Media Integration Integrity

Harris likely to combine Biden AI policies with Silicon Valley-informed approach

FedScoop

JULY 24, 2024

technology industry, which is primarily based there, wields significant influence. “I He also said that the vice president’s Silicon Valley experience might mean she doesn’t push back hard on tech giants. While California is known as a progressive state, the U.S.

Data

Data Budget Innovation Ethics

When should procurement be outsourced?

Sole Source Procurement: A Guide to Single-Source Acquisitions

Johannesburg Arbitration Week: Southern Africa to Step into the International Arbitration Spotlight

Two roles of procurement in public sector digitalisation: gatekeeping and experimentation

Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

Bucharest Arbitration Days 2024: Critical Developments in International Arbitration

European Commission Publishes Non-Paper of Model Clauses for Member States’ Bilateral Investment Agreements with Third Countries

2023 Year in Review: A Look at International Arbitration in California

SIAC Symposium 2023 Part 2: Charting the Future of International Arbitration – Insights into Regional and Topical Developments and Trends

Did you use AI to write this tender? What? Just asking! -- Also, how will you use AI to deliver this contract?

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

The Importance of Thoroughly Screening Election Poll Workers

Harris likely to combine Biden AI policies with Silicon Valley-informed approach

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