Material procurement affects cost, schedule, safety, and client trust long before crews begin installation. A late door package can idle several trades. An unchecked substitution can trigger rework, ...

For state and local governments and other non-federal entities to be reimbursed from federal grant funding for emergency or disaster operations, such as after the recent Maui wildfires and related ...

Globalized emergencies such as climate breakdown and the COVID-19 pandemic make procurement for sustainable development essential to building more resilient, sustainable and just societies. Discussion ...

Statutes and regulations require contracting officers (COs) to promote full and open competition through the use of competitive procedures when soliciting offers and awarding government contracts (10 ...

Government procurement accounts for a large part of public expenditures and enables governments to deliver public services. Sound procurement rules and procedures facilitate delivering goods, works ...

Any conversation about blockchain usually starts and ends with someone muttering vaguely about bitcoin and then moving swiftly away. However, behind the boom and bust headlines of cryptocurrency, the ...

This suite of resources is intended for World Bank (Bank) staff and borrowers responsible for implementing Bank Investment Project Financing (IPF) initiatives. The suite contains procurement guidance ...

In 2014 the Center for Digital Government* (CDG) produced its first cloud procurement guide to help state and local governments standardize cloud purchasing. A 2016 revision made it even easier for ...

To help turn infrastructure builds into meaningful sovereignty and growth, procurement processes must be more accessible to a ...

K–12 schooling is awash with new learning technologies, professional development, reading programs, and any number of things that schools and school systems have to decide whether to buy. Some ...

Procurement rules have never been straightforward. The complexity of their latest incarnation (three directives running to 600 pages) hardly makes compliance easy. In addition, case law has probably ...

In a renewed push to strengthen the link between public procurement accountability and effective public service delivery,Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF) ...