Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 19, 2023

At 2 am on Saturday morning, the day after the 10th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) was meant to end in Atlanta, exhausted negotiators finally adopted a resolution on “ Promoting transparency and integrity in public procurement in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ”.

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Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There is no turning back now, the ministries of economy and finance are at the heart of climate action. What are finance ministries doing and discussing to advance green fiscal management? In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the development of these strategies, with around e 40 worldwide.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 15, 2025

million contract from the Defense Departments Air Combat Command to support the Acquisition Management and Integration Centers Counternarcotics and Global Threats Division. Mark Walter, Amentum Amentum has won a $247.6 interests.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 9, 2025

Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Thursday, March 21, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE AI Can Boost Election Integrity, if Done Correctly It has become clear over the past several years that maintaining U.S. election integrity is not just a single agency’s responsibility. He was integral to pushing for the restoration of a quorum at the EAC in 2015.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

On November 25, 2024, the City of Pittsburgh (PA) discussed budget approval to replace QSend311 with Salesforce in 2025, and integrating other current software with the new CRM system. On December 17, 2024, Bridgeport School District (RI) mentioned their plan to switch from Red Rover to Microsoft Dynamics CRM in 2025 during a budget meeting.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Tennessee Pushes Hard on GenAI The Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration issued its fiscal 2025 strategic plan in August 2024 with a focus on modernization and integrating emerging technologies. One of those is AI, with a focus on GenAI.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 15, 2025

Through pan-Amazon collaboration, GovTechs can integrate Amazon services to help government agencies deliver real-world benefits more efficiently. Whether using pre-built AI services, fine-tuning AWS models, or integrating third-party AI, GovTechs can scale their AI investments responsibly with AWS.

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ivalua

MARCH 31, 2020

Lack of system integrations and actionable insights are stopping organizations from accurately measuring performance. The research, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, found that procurement teams are increasingly being measured by non-cost KPIs such as revenue opportunities being created, payment performance (e.g.

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Whistleblower Network News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The vast majority of financial institutions have partnered with FinCEN to protect the integrity of the U.S. For example, “TD Bank facilitated over $400 million in transactions for Da Ying Sze (Sze), who pled guilty to money laundering in 2022 for his role in conspiring to hide proceeds of narcotics trafficking,” according to FinCEN.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

There are many members of Congress who understand about finance and banking and can push back on technical statements about financial services that might not be true,” he told FedScoop. “It’s I doubt that this committee is going to be in a position to micromanage the [integrated circuit] industry.

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WashngtonExec

JUNE 2, 2024

As a result, the team’s biggest recent achievement was the successful integration of climate finance into one of the fastest-growing firms in its [.]

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Armenia’s ongoing digital transformation is an integral part of the national agenda, helping to improve citizen support and further strengthen the country’s position as a leading technology hub regionally. “On

Collaboration 119

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Whistleblowers provide information from a variety of vantage points that helps preserve market integrity and fairness,” said Director of Enforcement Ian McGinley. In 2021, Congress passed an emergency short-term fix to save the program from collapse by creating a separate fund to finance the CFTC Whistleblower Office.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 1, 2023

Moving to the cloud without a coherent plan for how all systems can and might integrate causes trouble. A good strategy also recognizes financial truths, Mendes said.

Finance 97

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This post was first published on Water Integrity Network’s blog. The latest Water Integrity Global Outlook highlights how the global water and sanitation sectors are notoriously opaque and vulnerable to corruption. We need to know where the money is being spent, on what, when, and with whom. Now, an estimated 6.5

Sustainability 57

Sustainability Contract Finance Public Procurement 57

WashngtonExec

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Catalina Molina Senior Vice President Enterprise Finance, Amentum Tapped to lead Amentum’s integration management efforts for finance as the company prepares to merge with Jacobs’ Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses, Catalina Molina said the work will be her most impactful recent achievement.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

Manages and oversees the central procurement system to maintain the integrity of the public procurement process and guard against ethical challenges and charges of fraud, waste or inefficiency. Experience and Training: Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, public administration or closely related field.

Purchasing 100

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Whistleblower Network News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In regards to the ESG violations, the SEC alleges that DWS “made materially misleading statements about its controls for incorporating ESG factors into research and investment recommendations for ESG integrated products, including certain actively managed mutual funds and separately managed accounts.” $19

Finance 97

Finance Networking Import Evaluation 97

Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The team focused on three core issues: Site integrity: stopping attacks and malicious behavior Security infrastructure: compliance improvement and engineered systems Care: user interface and internal customer care tools Bejar reported to the CTO, who reported directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

This objective implies two major challenges for finance ministries. Spending, taxation, public investment, debt management and financing policies can contribute to transform the behavior of different economic actors. C as possible.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Established in 2005, Colorado-based Orion is focused on designing, producing and integrating SmallSat and CubeSat

Purchasing 105

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 2, 2024

Santa Clara, California-based Palo Alto Networks said Thursday it will integrate its Prisma SASE platform with

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 26, 2024

Introduction Government authorities such as tax, unemployment insurance, and other finance agencies across the US and globally are seeking ways to innovate. The image depicts an integrated data platform architecture leveraging AWS services. Figure 1 shows the AWS components of an example modern data strategy for UI/tax application.

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WashngtonExec

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Chuck Hicks CFO, Thomson Reuters Special Services, LLC The past two years at Thomson Reuters Special Services have been transformational, and Chuck Hicks’ financial acumen and phenomenal leadership were an integral part of the company’s steady growth.

Finance 40

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2021

– Integration to other systems like ERPs or MRPs to connect to other stakeholders’ data, but also be able to connect to third party data providers to enrich your Procure-to-Pay process. . Now, you need to build your business case to get that budget from Finance. Challenge : Integrate to a broad range of legacy solutions.

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WashngtonExec

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

David Adams Executive Vice President & CFO, Acentra Health Led by David Adams, Acentra Health’s finance team fully integrated multiple acquisitions, supported the refinancing of the company’s debt, and facilitated new business growth with a book-to-bill ratio of over 1.5x.

Finance 40

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Intelsat operates one of the world’s largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks and is a leading provider of in-flight connectivity (IFC), powering inflight internet for 23 commercial airline partners and nearly 3,000 aircraft. This blog post shares the lessons learned from Intelsat’s successful domain migration with AWS.

Balance 78

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Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 9, 2024

This has led to the creation of specialised institutions and rules, such as those for corporate law disputes in Switzerland and the Netherlands, which cater to specific sectors like finance ( P.R.I.M.E. Finance ), art (the Court of Arbitration for Art ), and aviation (the Hague Court of Arbitration for Aviation ).

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This gap highlights the need for more synchronized efforts between AI regulations and existing digital government framework, as well as the need for integration with broader digital government strategies to ensure smooth implementation and avoid potential governance conflict.”

Government 88

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Manual entries into the two main government databases at the Ministry of Finance and the Independent Agency for Anti-Corruption have created hundreds of errors. They can help ensure compliance as part of business integrity efforts and to understand markets by providing detailed data about their competitors and volumes of contracts.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Organizations with an integrated strategic sourcing platform powered by automation can yield considerable benefits in terms of cost savings, efficiencies, and intelligent decision-making. Eloise graduated from Providence College with a dual degree in Finance and Political Science. The answer is simple – automation.

Procurement 97

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

As six out of 10 government finance teams still rely on manual reconciliation , the survey findings echo this, in which 46.1% Governments must consider factors such as system integration, data security, and user training. of agencies rely on payments from local residents and businesses for up to half of their revenue, while 29.4%

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Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 7, 2023

One of the reasons for this is the “multiple principals problem,” where no one does the full job of monitoring because they assume others will do it or that the ministry of finance is actually doing the job. Secondly, the GDPE must have qualified and sufficient personnel to monitor existing public enterprises.

Finance 52

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ivalua

JUNE 27, 2022

As a result, Ivalua customers’ buyers can strategically align all 3 teams- finance, procurement, and treasury- to complete a holistic, tightly integrated Procure-to-Pay strategy. The Finance team can focus on the release of low-cost finance and target yield-based saving programs. What’s more?

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ivalua

APRIL 30, 2019

Ivalua has announced the findings of a worldwide survey of supply chain, procurement and finance business leaders, on the status of their digital transformations, the obstacles encountered and keys to success. Digital transformation often fails because of an inability to onboard suppliers and poor user adoption. About Ivalua.

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ivalua

JULY 12, 2021

With the pandemic, businesses have seen unprecedented changes to normal demand patterns impacting both their operations and finances, either in terms of shortages and supply chain disruptions or strained working capital due to high inventory levels. About Ivalua. Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management solutions.

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