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JUNE 26, 2023

Blog » Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium June 26, 2023 | | Thought Leadership by Eloise Barnum As businesses navigate through supply chain disruptions, high inflation, and sustainability initiatives, procurement, and supplier management has taken center stage in driving change. See you soon!

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Procurement Strategic Sourcing Supply Chain Sustainability 97

Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 9, 2024

The ‘rise in legislation’, including the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (see here for previous coverage), impose new duties and potential liabilities on businesses.

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Finance Transparency Demand Sustainability 98

Scottish Government Procurement

MAY 7, 2024

The Handbook should be read in conjunction with Scottish Procurement Policy Notes , legislation, guidance and other supporting documents, such as the Scottish Public Finance Manual (SPFM).

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Procurement Public Procurement Sustainability Finance 57

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

the subcommittee’s ranking member, noted that her sustained push for a regulatory framework for digital assets has “some parallels” with the need for oversight on AI in housing. “We “But they also have the potential to bake in existing inequities and to reduce accountability and even limit opportunity.” Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo.,

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We want to enable one billion people to live in more equitable, prosperous and sustainable communities by 2030 by improving US$2 trillion in public procurement spending. We want to unlock its power to improve economic inclusion and sustainability, rebuild integrity and trust, and deliver the quality public services that we all deserve.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 89

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 80

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

Central to the event were the themes of generative AI, sustainability, security, and—importantly for Europe—digital sovereignty. They launched Falcon LLMs , three foundational large language models, to facilitate research in healthcare, finance, education, and more. Good governance is fundamental for responsible systems.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As the largest portion of the economy that is directly in government’s hands, public procurement is now at the forefront of interventions in digitizing government business, and advancing inclusive development, sustainability, and open government. This was not always the case.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 70

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In addition, a dedicated Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) Competence Center was established in the LPPO to lead implementation and to support contracting authorities and suppliers in their adoption of green criteria. In 2023, the LPPO added a set of key sustainability performance indicators to its procurement dashboard.

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Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

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. The following is a summary of the main opportunities found in this new publication.

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Finance Price Sustainability Capacity 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Challenge : The City of Des Moines in Iowa wanted to leverage procurement to improve equity and sustainability, but knew its current procurement processes and tools were insufficient. Current, closed, and awarded bids can now be found online, increasing transparency throughout the process. What a barrier that was for so many people!”

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Key Differences Between Public and Private Sector Procurement There are a few key differences between public and private sector procurement, including their objectives, the tendering process, supplier selection, regulations and frameworks, transparency in awarding contracts, and even the payment process.

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Procurement Tender Public Procurement Supplier 52

ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

Sustainability. Embracing sustainability as a goal and metric that you scorecard suppliers on is a good place to start to get ready for this trend that will become a staple in how successful companies do business. Most companies we see today have their finance departments bogged down with spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Procurement Supplier Global Sourcing 45

Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 8, 2024

AI can introduce data-driven insights for more evidence-based and transparent budgeting. AI-driven procurement processes can also improve fair competition, transparency, and cost-effectiveness for government acquisition programs. Make sure to select newsletters option, after choosing the fiscal policy and management topic. al 2022.

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ivalua

APRIL 7, 2022

The goal is to sustainably create value and share that value with the Group’s entire ecosystem.”. Aurélie LUCAS tasked JB to provide sustainable, locally sourced #loveprocurement t-shirt, delivered on stage via an environmentally friendly bike delivery! Audrey Izard, L’Oréal . More pictures of actual trees to follow! .

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Supply Chain Sustainability Supplier Procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

The vision is to go beyond supporting “just” a transparency and reporting portal to have a digital ecosystem that integrates real-time damage assessments, budgets, project planning, procurement and delivery. This is not only a transparency portal, it’s a coordination portal, changing the power dynamics of how reconstruction is done.

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Accountability E-procurement Transparency Capacity 52

Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 23, 2024

The Resourcing Question The draft statute identifies three possible sources of financing: member contributions, service fees and donations (Article 8(1)). With public finances under strain, many governments may have to prioritise. Reliance on donations raises several issues. 37, and January 2024 Session Report , paras. 43 and 85).

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Export Finance Sustainability Capacity 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 3, 2024

The central role of private investors in the climate transition was recognized already in the 2015 Paris Agreement , which emphasizes the importance of finance and investment in operationalizing the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C C above pre-industrial levels. Article 2.1(c)

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Insurance Finance Sustainability Ethics 52

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Over the past two decades, a growing number of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries began adopting fiscal rules to limit overspending influenced by election cycles, public pressure, and other political economy factors, helping the region strengthen its fiscal solvency and sustainability.

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FedInsider

APRIL 22, 2024

Constituents must trust that their need for essential services can be met with transparency, without sacrificing their privacy and security. Employees of federal agencies seek equitable, inclusive workplaces, flexibility in where and how they work, transparent communications, and training in the latest technologies. DLA is the U.S.

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How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

transparency for image manipulation), or substantial requirements (e.g. A good example of this is the use of public procurement to contribute to the promotion of sustainability objectives, even to the detriment of traditional aims such as ensuring the best value for money in a strict, financial sense.

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Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Evaluation 59

ivalua

JANUARY 24, 2022

In this week’s Procurement Leaders webinar recap, we address leveraging the tremendous power of data with Alex Saric, Ivalua’s Chief Marketing Officer and Johan Duba, CTO of Finance at Booz Allen Hamilton. Worth a watch: Webinar replay here.

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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’). Some of DRCF’s findings in the AI procurement report are astonishing, and should attract significant attention.

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Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 18, 2024

Senior tax policymakers from across the region attended the event organized by the IDB, the World Bank and the G-20 Brazilian presidency, represented during the event by Ministry of Finance and Receita Federal do Brasil (RFB), the country’s federal tax agency. Strengthening institutions, rule of Law, and protecting property rights.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 31, 2022

Most notable in Pillar 1 is the generation of an income transfer mechanism which meets the progressive criteria outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. New features of the proposal It is important to acknowledge that is a very innovative proposal. Another significant measure is the application of unitary taxation, i.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 13, 2024

Sobota affirmed that a big concern about the use of AI is precisely “the black box effect”, i.e., the lack of transparency on the sources and operations of generative AI. the Paris Agreement) and the eventual need to encourage and sustain, for instance, fossil fuel investments.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

On the other hand, SADC decided against including the FET or fair administrative treatment in the SADC Finance and Investment Protocol. See e.g., PSEG v Turkey , ICSID Case No. ARB/02/5, Award , ¶ 240; Infinito Gold Ltd. In 2017, SADC issued a revised model BIT , which, like the PIA, provides fair administrative treatment in the place of FET.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 10, 2024

During the training, Jason, Liam, and Alex will cover the following topics and more: Pricing – Transactional Data Reporting (TDR)/Commercial Sales Practices (CSP); Domestic Preferences; Supply Chain; Enforcement/Mandatory Disclosure/Ethics; Sustainability Requirements/Policy; and Bid Protests Update. Open Government National Action Plan.

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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. Learn from Federal executives and strategic business partners in the fields of finance, procurement, human capital and other functional areas.

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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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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Within the finance sector, there exist AI-powered tools (e.g., Reliability and Transparency AI tools also likely fall short of the requirements of reliability and transparency that are necessary to sustain the legitimacy of legal proceedings. Comparables.AI This represents a human element that AI cannot yet replicate.

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Transparency Media Data Efficiency 59

Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 8, 2024

To sustain such considerations, she referred to relevant caselaw on arbitrability of competition disputes, such as Mitsubishi Motors v Soler Chrysler-Plymouth and Eco Swiss China v Benetton , where Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union were deemed matters of public policy under the New York Convention.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While the e-procurement system doesn’t include the quasi-governmental sector and sovereign wealth fund (which aren’t governed by the public procurement law) it provides full transparency on the general procurement market which accounts for at least a third of Kazakhstan’s public spending. platform mentioned in the case study above.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 18, 2024

Demand data is shared publicly every other month through GSA’s Vendor Support Center To work towards its goal of “complete transparency” in government procurement purchasing, GSA has expanded its datasets and plans to make more data available over the coming years. GSA is also expanding TDR as an option to additional SINs in August 2024.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A critical finding and recommendation of the World Bank report is to strengthen the transparency and efficiency of public spending and procurement, including through open data and digital procurement reforms. They know full well they will be the ones ultimately paying for it through higher taxes and poorer development outcomes.

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Finance Public Procurement Procurement Transparency 57

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 15, 2024

Latin America and the Caribbean are at a crossroads of environmental sustainability and inclusive development; and public governance plays a critical role in a fair green transition, especially given existing inequalities, limited fiscal capacity, and deteriorating public trust. of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022 compared to 39.7%

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Government Government Data Public Procurement 52

AWS Public Sector

MAY 8, 2024

Drivers for data regulation enforcement include: a) increases in cyber-attacks on research data; b) growth of large datasets and artificial intelligence (AI) in research, which needs more complete datasets, and c) more healthcare, finance, and manufacturing datasets, which introduce domain-specific requirements.

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