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The UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan -- a procurement view

How to Crack a Nut

The plan heavily focuses on public sector AI adoption and formulates a series of recommendations to boost AI procurement. In this post, I highlight some aspects from a procurement perspective. But doing this well is not easy - it will require real leadership and radical change, especially in procurement. This will require: 34.

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM). What is Smart Public Procurement?

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

Telles.eu

After the first two entries ( here and here ) of a more general nature, this one will be focused on contract specific critiques, in particular food procurement (contract types 9 and 15). It is defined in the Annex as a 'supply made via direct purchases from the producer or through one single intermediary.' 34 TFEU.

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BAE Secures $85M Modification to Navy Contract for NTCDL Systems

ExecutiveBiz

million modification to a Network Tactical Common Data Link systems procurement contract, increasing the total value of the basic contract to $296.2 Navy has awarded BAE Systems’ information and electronic systems business an $84.9

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Welcoming Dr. Ezgi Uysal to the PurpLE Project

Bestek Procurement

We are pleased to welcome from 1st January 2025 Dr. Ezgi Uysal as a Post-Doctoral Fellow on our Purchase Power Sustainable Public Procurement through Private Law Enforcement (PurpLE) Project. Her work focuses on public procurement, contract law, and sustainability.

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The Importance of Ethical Procurement Practices in Public Sectors

The Procurement School

Author: Helen Doucette “Accept the bid from ABC Company” said the VP of Finance to the Director of Procurement. “I To accept the bid would put the organization at risk of being sued by all the other 6 compliant bidders for the value of this contract of $9 million plus up to 2 years of lost profit”, the Director replied.

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DOE Seeks Proposals for $2.7B Uranium Enrichment Services Procurement Contract

GovCon Wire

billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to procure uranium enrichment services to help establish a domestic supply chain of high-assay low-enriched uranium used for deploying advanced nuclear reactors. The Department of Energy has begun soliciting proposals for a potential 10-year, $2.7 Proposals are due March 8.