The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In his article “ The Future of Public Infrastructure is Digital “, Bill Gates envisions a world where infrastructure is smarter, more efficient, and digitally integrated. The Role of AI in Procurement AI offers powerful tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and transparency in procurement processes.

Procurement 59

Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Public Procurement 59

Extract Systems

APRIL 9, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of government technology, the importance of data governance and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be overstated. This deficiency raises questions about the seamless integration of data from multiple agencies into cohesive tools and the potential ramifications for data quality.

Transparency 52

Transparency Data Integration Integrity 52

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Holistic Integration of Procurement and Public Finance Management Goals To effectively address both active and passive waste, it is crucial for LAC countries to shift towards smarter spending practices. Hart’s insights strongly resonated with participants from the LAC region, where traditional contracts are often strained by rigid rules.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Strategic Planning Balance 52

The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

While it aligns with Liberia’s approach, the Model Law places greater emphasis on transparency, the documentation of justification for using restricted bidding, and minimizing disruptions to competition. These safeguards are designed to protect the integrity of the procurement process and ensure fairness and accountability.

Procurement 105

Procurement Competitive Bidding Bidding Supplier 105

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Instances of favoritism, corruption, and misallocation of resources have raised alarming questions about the integrity of the procurement process. But at the heart of this transformation lies the principle of transparency. However, the real challenge lies in translating these principles into effective practices.

Public Procurement 123

Public Procurement Procurement Corruption Transparency 123

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 ”.

Public Procurement 140

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement IT 140

Extract Systems

AUGUST 1, 2023

Striking a balance between transparency and protecting sensitive information is a challenging task for government entities. A prior incident involving the unintentional publication of unredacted records with sensitive information, such as Social Security Numbers, led to identity theft concerns.

Balance 52

Balance Transparency Collaboration Media 52

FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

A month later, Eric Hysen, the department’s chief information officer and chief AI officer, told FedScoop that there’s been “good interest” in using generative AI within the agency. Citizenship and Immigration Services staff. Last November, the agency released a memo meant to guide the agency’s use of the technology.

Electronics 133

Electronics Impact Assessment Transparency Thresholds 133

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

These public procurement principles allow businesses of all sizes to participate equitably, protect the integrity of taxpayer money, and encourage competition and efficiency. A transparent approach lowers procurement risk, prevents corruption, and fosters confidence between suppliers and public sector organisations.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Transparency Procurement Tender 52

American City & Country

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Technologies once relied on to manage this process and reduce knowledge loss are no longer able to do so in an efficient, transparent way—skyrocketing costs, zapping institutional knowledge and worse. Today, many agencies are entangled in legacy systems that resist integration with modern AI solutions.

Government 114

Government Government Budget Integration 114

FedScoop

JANUARY 22, 2025

This approach allows Rivian to easily combine capabilities to deliver integrated functions. Today, many vendors create capabilities to solve a single or small set of problems and the customer is left to integrate the systems themselves, rarely, if ever, achieving automated system operations.

Automotive 67

Automotive Integration Integrity Electronics 67

FedScoop

JUNE 5, 2024

Under the model, which ostensibly is named after the popular ABC show “Shark Tank,” Miller said the agency has put in place a constraint of 90 days to prove a concept and at the end the agency has “validated learnings” about cost, missing skill sets that are needed, and potentially any concerns for integrating it in the organization. “By

Ethics 123

Ethics Transparency Innovation Inventory 123

Procureware

APRIL 12, 2019

Most procurement software projects are focused on efficiency; however, transparency needs to have equal attention. Trust is the cornerstone of procurement and transparency builds trust. This practice ensures that information is up to date and shifts responsibility to suppliers. Below is an example from the Chicago RTA.

Transparency 40

Transparency Bidding Bidder Tender 40

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. Unfortunately ,they often have not been adequately integrated into the design of e-GP systems. Inefficiencies, data duplication, and reduced transparency often result.

E-procurement 82

E-procurement Procurement Public Procurement Transparency 82

FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

A best practice for economic analysis is a transparent methodology, including analytical choices and assumptions,” the GAO wrote, adding that start-up tech costs for “a novel system” of this kind “could be substantial.” We found this as well. Estimates for technology costs appear to be an especially unwieldy target.

Accountability 119

Accountability Price Electronics Data 119

FedScoop

JUNE 18, 2024

Updating federal campaign finance reporting software, modernizing tribal communities’ school websites and streamlining human resources information systems are among the new investments announced Tuesday from the Technology Modernization Fund. The announcement of the $31.66

Finance 121

Finance Education Transparency Quality 121

ivalua

JUNE 11, 2023

It introduces several amendments to the NFRD and expands the scope of reporting obligations to foster greater transparency and comparability. Source Implications for Organizations Expanded Reporting Requirements: Under the CSRD, a broader range of companies will be obligated to report non-financial and sustainability information.

Supply Chain 98

Supply Chain Finance Procurement Sustainability 98

FedScoop

AUGUST 12, 2024

According to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 — which established and expanded the program — its goals are to promote “data fluency and data collaboration;” “increased data analytics use in critical decisionmaking areas;” “data integration integration and standardization;” and increase efficiencies in the department.

Data 119

Data Collaboration Efficiency Accountability 119

ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2023

By integrating the EIC’s functionalities in their procurement practices, organizations can dramatically accelerate sustainability agendas with reliable emissions data for all the direct and indirect products and services they acquire, and establish transparent reporting standards.

Supply Chain 98

Supply Chain Innovation Supplier Sustainability 98

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Written by Isabelle Adam and originally published on the ACE-Global Integrity blog. For years, the benefits of transparency as a policy tool to increase accountability and counter corruption have been lauded. In public procurement, this has given rise to a global movement promoting procurement data transparency, a.k.a.

Public Procurement 40

Public Procurement Transparency Procurement E-procurement 40

GovLoop

MARCH 25, 2024

Deloitte examines each one through four different “trust signals”— humanity, transparency, capability and reliability — that relate to how the public perceives government. Transparency indicates that the government openly shares information, motives, and choices related to policy, budget, and program decisions in straightforward language.

Retail 102

Retail Transparency Education Quality 102

Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 22, 2024

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) kicked off Sunshine Week on March 11 with remarks on the Senate floor about the importance of whistleblowers in promoting transparency and accountability. In his remarks, Grassley stressed that “to control a government as big as ours, it takes a lot of very bright light shining on every agency and office.”

Whistle-blowing 111

Whistle-blowing Accountability Transparency Education 111

FedScoop

AUGUST 22, 2024

to take action on the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act by the end of this session, referring to the bill to bolster transparency and communication in IT spending across federal agencies as “must-pass legislation.” Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.,

Purchasing 131

Purchasing Inventory Utilities Transparency 131

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pimentel joined the agency after making a name for himself as a transparency and anti-corruption campaigner, having been Executive Director at Transparency International’s local chapter Participación Ciudadana. By 2022, DGCP launched its data and monitoring system “Sistema Integral de Monitoreo y Análisis de Datos” publicly.

Corruption 78

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 78

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. This helps us ensure the integrity of the process,” highlights Uwingeneye.

Public Procurement 80

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 80

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Many municipal and county governments rely primarily on Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and Flood Insurance Studies (FIS) for flood information. Pluvial (rainfall-related, or “flash”) flood information is not generally available or accessible to communities. annual chance events.

Insurance 110

Insurance Risk Management Data Management 110

FedInsider

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Attackers can gain unauthorized access to a company’s data if Active Directory is compromised; monitoring your AD will help protect system integrity, availability, and overall cybersecurity. He has led and executed a wide variety of computer security reviews to evaluate the adequacy of information systems general and application controls.

Engineering 111

Engineering Leadership Management Networking 111

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As citizens’ expectations evolve and the need for rapid, accurate information becomes more pronounced, state and local governments seek smarter ways to keep pace. To understand how these technologies work together to enhance information retrieval and generation, let’s examine the process flow of an LLM integrated with RAG.

Efficiency 75

Efficiency Government Government Integration 75

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The government has promoted public participation in procurement monitoring, which is vital to combating corruption and improving efficiency, but few independent civil society organizations and individuals had the information, skills and influence to track contracting effectively.

Procurement 120

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 120

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 31, 2025

One powerful tool for accomplishing this is the RACI matrix, which defines who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed by activity. Legacy systems : Many public sector organizations have long-standing legacy systems and infrastructure that need to be accounted for and integrated with any new technology solutions.

Accountability 52

Accountability Consulting Collaboration Efficiency 52

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 15, 2024

Or you may want to draw on information held in publicly-available repositories or procured from a third party. Carefully evaluate any original sources; the integrity, completeness, and currency of the data; how usable it is in its current form; and how to safeguard that data throughout its use.

Data 134

Data Import Efficiency Balance 134

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Enter HolonIQ , a global intelligence platform that has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to transform how governments, institutions, and companies access and utilize critical information. However, the sheer volume and complexity of information available can often overwhelm and hinder the decision-making process.

Education 69

Education Engineering Data Transparency 69

Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

According to whistleblower advocates, these regulations have little teeth : whistleblowers continue to face retaliation and there has only been one whistleblower award issued over the past three decades.

Transparency 107

Transparency Accountability Integration Integrity 107

FedInsider

AUGUST 5, 2024

The guidance is to minimize any risks resulting from relying on AI to make agency decisions or take actions that could undermine the “efficacy, safety, equitableness, fairness, transparency, accountability, appropriateness, or lawfulness of such decisions or actions.”

Innovation 98

Innovation Participation Media Transparency 98

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As Einer Fogh of GIZ Uganda highlights, “there is a vibrant civil society in Uganda, with many organizations working on transparency and anticorruption. But these organizations aren’t connected to the right government agencies, they don’t have good access to information, to the procurement plans, and the open data.

Public Procurement 135

Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

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.

Engineering 106

Engineering Media Internal Control Integration 106

The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

In response to the information communicated to the market via the bidding documents , the market submits offers or bids which will be the actual basis of contracts when accepted. For works, it also includes the bill of quantities and supplementary information describing the works. Goods : Documents used for procuring physical items.

Public Procurement 91

Public Procurement Bidding Procurement Bidder 91