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GSA is cooking up a new, comprehensive procurement data source

Federal News Network

The government both creates and runs on data. Given that agencies spend hundreds of billions of dollars on goods and services the more procurement data it has, the better it can understand trends and ‘manage’ procurement. That’s the idea behind a data source effort known as Hi-Def. Charlotte Phelan: Exactly.

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UK Procurement Act implementation: what does the first three months of data tell us?

Open Contracting Partnership

We take a first look at the new UK procurement data now coming from 2023’s Procurement Act, which went live on 24 February 2025. The UK now needs to go for the win and put that data to use to drive improved performance and to deliver on important social objectives like SME inclusion in the government’s National Procurement Policy Statement.

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Insights from the 2024 Global Data Barometer: How are Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean doing on public procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Public procurement data is the most widely available cluster of data included in the latest Global Data Barometer. 41 out of 43 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in this year’s Barometer publish some government procurement data online. Ecuador Latin America and the Caribbean 93.75 Uganda Africa 92.38

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Commerce looking to publish AI-ready data guidance in coming months

FedScoop

Guidance from the Department of Commerce aimed at establishing a first-of-its-kind framework for using the agency’s public federal data with artificial intelligence tools could come in the next several months. That initial search was an effort to see what was already out there in terms of AI-ready data guidance, according to Houed. “We

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Empowering the public sector with secure, governed generative AI experimentation

AWS Public Sector

Successful adoption of generative AI, especially within the public sector, requires organizations to enable systematic experimentation and exploration, with their own data, for their workforce and constituents. Strict data governance protocols are typically required.

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European Commission transforms public procurement across Europe with AWS and NTT Data

AWS Public Sector

However, the data surrounding these procurement processes has traditionally been fragmented and difficult to access. Only about 20 percent of the total procurement data is readily available and searchable at the EU level through the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) portal.

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Tab for access: How New York City is increasing participation and access to government contracts

Open Contracting Partnership

But until recently, like many governments, New York City relied on antiquated systems and lacked the tools to take full advantage of its procurement data. Part of being accountable to taxpayers is putting the good, the bad and the ugly about our data out into the public sphere. states or indeed many countries.