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What is the Citymart Procurement Institute?

What is the Citymart Procurement Institute?

We have collected a guide for local government officials to better understand how procurement can be part of their governance process…
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Learning Units
Unit 1: The potential of public procurement

Unit 1: The potential of public procurement

we introduce the potential of using procurement strategically and provide insight into how to make the process more agile and engaging.
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Unit 2: Intention — collecting needs and defining statements

Unit 2: Intention — collecting needs and defining statements

This unit provides practical steps on how your City can identify and prioritize problems and needs, followed by guidelines on how to…
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Unit 3: Choosing your procurement path

Unit 3: Choosing your procurement path

We explore different types of legal procedures, suitable service areas, examples. Knowledge of procurement gives you the power to lead.
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Unit 4: Designing the Ownership Model

Unit 4: Designing the Ownership Model

Here we explain what you need to consider to design an ownership and financial architecture to get the best outcomes from your procurement.
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Unit 5: Defining the evaluation framework

Unit 5: Defining the evaluation framework

Defining an evaluation framework is, together with the problem definition, the most important stage of procurement as it sets out how the…
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Unit 6: Managing risk

Unit 6: Managing risk

How can we open public procurement to new vendor groups, new approaches, and innovations to maximize value for citizens while managing…
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Unit 7: Measuring results

Unit 7: Measuring results

What are the differences between outputs, outcomes and impact? And how do you apply them to procurement as a way to achieve your goals?
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Unit 8: Communicating and engaging markets and communities

Unit 8: Communicating and engaging markets and communities

How can you use communication at every stage of the procurement process to achieve transformative results and high levels of engagement?
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Case Studies
How procurement drove Stockholm’s digital assistance for visually impaired and elderly pedestrians

How procurement drove Stockholm’s digital assistance for visually impaired and elderly pedestrians

e-Adept is a life-changing, mobile phone based navigation tool which enables visually impaired persons to move around Stockholm…
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How Boston hacked and procured its way to a better permitting system

How Boston hacked and procured its way to a better permitting system

The City of Boston’s permit requirements are intended to ensure safe, equitable, and transparent development. However, the application…
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How New York City procured innovation on gunshot detection

How New York City procured innovation on gunshot detection

Cities can use a series of different approaches to buying innovative products and services. New York, for example, uses demonstration…
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Results-based Financing — Inspiration from Instiglio’s work on Diabetes in Mexico

Results-based Financing — Inspiration from Instiglio’s work on Diabetes in Mexico

Pay-for-results, or results based financing models, can help ensure that procurement delivers citizen value, inspires innovation and…
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How Yorkshire drives sustainability through collaborative procurement evaluation

How Yorkshire drives sustainability through collaborative procurement evaluation

YORbuild is a contracting framework for construction and renovation works. It is designed to align the evaluation criteria used by public…
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“They look at us and they see risk.” Promoting SMEs in public procurement

“They look at us and they see risk.” Promoting SMEs in public procurement

SME are underrepresented in public procurement. We look at what Mexico and Korea have done to turn risk management on its head.
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New Lighting for San Francisco — procurement innovation, entrepreneurship and measurement

New Lighting for San Francisco — procurement innovation, entrepreneurship and measurement

San Francisco opened to new ideas, entrepreneurs and measured their impact on their way to deploying tens of thousands of street lights.
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Barcelona’s communications magic in public procurement to engage the world, and 2% of residents

Barcelona’s communications magic in public procurement to engage the world, and 2% of residents

BCN | Open Challenge launched by the city of Barcelona in 2014 opened up city procurement to tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and resid…
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The Communications Strategy behind Participatory Budgeting in Paris

The Communications Strategy behind Participatory Budgeting in Paris

Paris used a sophisticated and modern approach to communications for its participatory budgeting program. Here is how it worked…
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Rural public transport procurement -putting Communities firmly in the driving seat

Rural public transport procurement -putting Communities firmly in the driving seat

In 2014 I helped local government in rural Scotland pioneer community engagement in public transit procurement, something that only major…
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Helen Mackenzie
The Right Shoes for Chile’s National Police

The Right Shoes for Chile’s National Police

Procurement innovation helped Chile’s Carabineros break out of a cycle of buying the same shoes for its entire police force after 90 years…
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