📣ELA is looking for a contractor to support the Management of European (Online) Job Days, focusing on platform maintenance, event coordination, and promotional activities.
Submission deadline 📆 17 April 2024 🕛16:00 Bratislava time.
For Public Interest Tech people not on the East Coast because they should be done for the day:
After many, many, many years, I've put together a one-hour talk on influencing peers and leadership to stop a likely procurement disaster, and steer it towards a user-centered, iterative, agile approach.
It's called Pulling the Cord, and I'm testing it on March 20th, for 15 people, at a 90% discount.
And about bloody time. Next, can we re-examine the #public#procurement rules? They ignored them in order to sub their chums with lucrative PPE contracts during the early COVIDdays, so what are they for, exactly? Who do they protect?
#Prasarana is set to receive 310 #buses, marking its final procurement of #diesel-powered buses before transitioning to fully electric vehicles (#EV) by 2037.
The shift towards EV buses will begin next year.
The #procurement#tender is currently in the evaluation process and is expected to be awarded this March.
Delivery of the buses is scheduled for the first quarter of 2025, with 60% of the order comprising small buses.
Regardless of whether you are completely new to procurement or if you have already made your first steps in your career as a procurement trainee and/or professional, this unique position may be for you.
"The #SocialCostOfCarbon — a metric for the #climate damage — has been a regulatory staple for years. [Now]d the president ordered agencies to get ready to use it consistently in a host of other government activities — including annual #budgets, #permitting decisions and foreign assistance programs.
Biden also asked agencies to start laying the groundwork to build climate costs into government #procurement."
Early birds can join our online session 'Procuring modern security standards by governments & industry' at IGF Kyoto 2023. Mind the UTC time 🕗, which means 6:30 am in Amsterdam 🥱.
Forum Standaardisation and Platform Internet Standars inform you how the Dutch government tackle the adoption of (internet safety) standards .
Together with OECD-OCDE, JPNAP and RIPE NCC we have the honour to join 'Increasing routing security globally through cooperation' at IGF Kyoto 2023. Please feel free to join us online. Mind the UTC time 🕗, 8:15 am in A'dam.
Forum Standaardisation and Platform Internet Standards inform you how the Dutch government tackle the adoption of (internet safety) standards and more specific in relation to #RPKI. Meet you there 👉:
"...now that the United Kingdom has departed from the European Union the question becomes who will enforce the “public” part of public procurement law?
The courts have become wary of campaign groups saying they have “standing” to bring any challenge.
But if not such groups, then who?
If standing is limited to disappointed tenderers then there will be few challenges" - @davidallengreen
@nedhamson Replacing & holding oath-violating Tuberville to account for his obstructive anti-constitutional sabotage of national defense NOW is a matter of limiting damage to national security asap.
Tuberville triggered a national defense emergency. For the benefit of Putin. And Putin's Mar-A-Loco asset.
The NZ Gov't is hopeless at procurement. It's committed to policies that are implicitly '#TrickleDownEconomics' but almost exclusively for the benefit of foreign corporations. Here's a more recent look: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/govt-struggles-to-fix-poor-procurement
We need an anti-foreign-corporate government. They are the problem & NOT part of the solution.
In 2015, in a bid to help small & medium sized enterprises (SMEs) the Cabinet Office gave itself 5 years to expand #procurement from SMEs to a third of all Govt. purchasing of goods & services.
The deadline was then extended to 2022, but the proportion of procurement from SMEs has actually remained broadly static at around 25%.
Only the the Dept. of Cuture Media & Sport beat the target making nearly half of all purchases from SMEs
Govt. lacks a real plan & #corporates 'play the game' better!