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

Open Contracting Partnership

But these businesses rarely take part in public procurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. The bidding process was also restructured to lower the barriers for such businesses to register and submit bids.

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Government Construction Projects: Bidding and Winning Strategies for Success

Public Contracting Institute

Consider the following resources to strengthen your financial management capabilities: Incurred Cost Submission Deep Dive CAS: The Series Cost and Price Analysis Workshop Cost Allowability Subcontract Management Many government construction projects involve subcontracting, which introduces additional complexities and risks.

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Procuring AI without understanding it. Way to go?

How to Crack a Nut

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. This is extremely worrying.

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Thirty3: a year on

Nitrous: Public Procurement

2020 As the project progressed, we recognised that the work LOTI was doing with City Tools was an integral part of Thirty3 and could help shape the procurement process. Adding functionality that let boroughs be more transparent about their IT requirements and existing technology partnerships is useful to both SMEs and other local authorities.

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2023 Ivalua NOW Nashville: Recap + Photos!

ivalua

After some coffee and mingling, we dove right into workshop sessions and a rooftop reception. Below, we captured this year’s highlights with a summary, photos, and video reels–and as always, there will be more to share! Stay “tuned”. Partner Day We officially kicked off #ivaluanow with our incredible Partners!

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Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. It establishes a robust methodology to explore what impacts can be measured and also explores the channels through which transparency is indeed impactful – e.g. who are the stakeholders and enablers that are the actual drivers of change using increased transparency.

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Looking into Antonio Costa legacy as PM from a procurement perspective

Telles.eu

I think it is appropriate to look into his legacy of 8 years as PM in the field of public procurement. In 2017 I voiced significant concerns about the creation of a new non-transparent procedure to partially replace direct awards. When you deactivate - or strategically deviate from - EU procurement rules, corruption follows.