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Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

Open contracting approach: Supported by OCP’s Lift Impact accelerator program from 2021, Ekiti State’s public procurement agency created better opportunities for small businesses and particularly women-led businesses, to participate in public contracts. This is about participation.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

It has debarred more than 60 suppliers for violations, and reduced unresolved complaints and canceled tenders. in 2020 to 96% and single-bid tenders decreased across all methods – from 62.5% During the pandemic, the agency suspended a tender to buy overpriced digital textbooks. Single-bid tenders decreased from 62.5%

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Should FTAs open and close (or only open) international procurement markets?

How to Crack a Nut

In that way, the concessions given by B to A may be more meaningful and long-lasting, or at least put pressure on third countries to participate in bilateral (and multilateral — looking at the WTO GPA) procurement-related liberalisation efforts.

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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector. At first look, s.12(1) The standard disclaimer applies. Further comments welcome.

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The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions Government Contractors Should Know

Government Contracts Legal Forum

Notably, from FY 2018-2022 GAO found “numerous examples of defense-related M&A that potentially presented risks” to DoD but for which DoD did not participate in antitrust review, in many cases because it appears that the FTC and DOJ may not have reached out to DoD for input and DoD was otherwise unaware of the transaction.

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6 steps for civic monitors to identify fraud risks in procurement in Indonesia

Open Contracting Partnership

Civic participation can play an important role in monitoring risks in government procurement projects that may lead to uncompetitive practices, wasteful spending and project delays. In Indonesia, members of the public can file official complaints about suspicious procurement practices.

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EU Anti-Coercion Instrument: Impact on Public Procurement

Public Procurement Intl

The Anti-Coercion Instrument says that, with regard to public procurement, “goods, services or suppliers” from a targeted “coercive” nation can be excluded from public procurements in the European Union. public procurement markets. (The