Endorsements For Export Agencies
Endorsements are a win-win for export agencies.
Exporters face new challenges, both in terms of increased barriers to trade following the pandemic, but they also struggle to meet the increasing demands of purchasing teams. It is no longer enough to have a brilliant product, companies must excel in a multitude of ways to win overseas contracts.
This creates ...
Looking For Reasons To Export to Government?
If you are looking to grow exports, you should start with the largest and most transparent industry in the world, and here are five reasons why:
1. Public contracting accounts for around 11% of global GDP.
Think about that. Look at all the economic activity that surrounds you, from shops to taxis and websites, and then realise that ...
Lockheed Martin Selected As Preferred Bidder.
US defence giant Lockheed Martin has won a contract to deliver Australia’s first sovereign-controlled military satellite communication constellation.
Lockheed Martin was recently announced as the preferred prime contractor for the JP9102 Australia Defence Satellite Communication system following a two-year procurement process. The company will now progress to the next stage of the tender, which will involve engaging in ...
What Is Beneficial Ownership Anyway?
Beneficial ownership refers to the real person(s) who ultimately owns or controls a company or other legal entity. This information is often hidden behind complex ownership structures, which can make it difficult to track the flow of money and identify potential corruption or other financial crime.
Transparency of beneficial ownership is important for government procurement for a ...
Better Data, Better Procurement Pipeline
There is no shortage of procurement data out there, but it doesn’t always have reliable or consistent features. Data that's raw, unreliable, inconsistent, and scattered across different systems is hard to work with and makes it difficult to create a robust business pipeline.
Most procurement teams conduct some level of pipeline analysis in order to plan activity ...
Data For Social Procurement
Social value has become an increasingly critical feature of public procurement. The $13tn of global public procurement expenditure provides opportunities to meld policy and delivery in a pragmatic way.
We have seen the Canadian government establish a preferential policy for minority owned businesses, something that has been a common feature of both US federal procurement and South ...
Creating Export Opportunities With Government Procurement Data
In today's global economy, export-oriented businesses face increasing competition and challenges in identifying the right markets and opportunities for their products and services. One source of information that can help businesses overcome these challenges is government procurement data.
For export-oriented businesses, unlocking the value of government procurement data requires understanding how this data can inform their export ...
AUKUS Defence Procurement Deal
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined the US President Joe Biden, and the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in San Diego this week to announce the signing of a trilateral security pact under which the latter two countries will assist Australia in acquiring and building nuclear-powered submarines.
The plans included the production of up to five of ...
Australian Government Responds to COVID-19 Procurement Review
Many governments around the world have faced pressure regarding their procurement of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, so it is encouraging to see The Australian Government releasing its response to the Halton review into procurement of Covid 19 vaccine and treatment.
In June 2022, a review was called into Covid purchasing and procurement by the Australian Minister for ...
EU Joint Ammunition Procurement
EU ministers will meet today in Stockholm to decide whether to jointly procure ammunition to aid Ukraine and replenish domestic stockpiles. EU defence ministers will informally discuss plans to speed up the supply of ammunition to Ukraine, which is seeking more ammunition to fight Russia’s invasion. NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and EU’s Internal Market Commissioner Thierry ...
Denial Of Service By Wall Of Text
Clarkesworld Magazine is a publisher of science fiction short stories. They accept and pay for submissions from anyone. As of last week, they closed submissions due to an overwhelming influx of spam submissions that appear to have been generated by AI algorithms.
Editor Neil Clarke's article, A Concerning Trend outlines the incident and includes this graph showing ...
Canadian Government Announces Rail Procurement Process
This week, the Canadian Government announced a major step in the procurement process for their High Frequency Rail project: the launch of the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).
The purpose of the RFQ is to identify and qualify up to three top candidates who will be invited to participate in the Request for Proposals (RFP) process, anticipated to ...
Deduplication Routines
Deduplication is a deceptively complex problem to handle at scale. There’s a simple, ugly and brutal way to do it, where you compare two records and determine if they are exactly the same, but this doesn’t work if the records are very slightly different. A missing comma is enough to render that algorithm useless.
Doing deduplication properly ...
Policy Proposal: Analysts In Place
Data is critical to the functioning of government. Policies and services live or die on the quality of data. Successes and failures can often be shaped by the decisions teams make at the outset of a project, especially regarding data.
Data integrity, good data design and proper policies to govern data are too vital to ignore. That’s ...
Hallucination As A Service
I asked Chat-GPT to find me some academic papers that highlight the usefulness of combining two different machine learning techniques. I hoped that it might be able to point me to some new insights for some research we’re doing into document clustering. The results were surprising:
These look credible enough, but none of these papers exists. The ...