On October 1 and 28, CLDP conducted workshops for Peru's Supervisory Body for State Contracting (OSCE)’s procurement professors on Teaching Methodologies and Facilitation Techniques. This interactive workshop was a two-part workshop series. The first workshop focused on various classroom and virtual...

On November 17, CLDP, in collaboration with the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru, USAID Peru, and the U.S. Embassy in Peru, hosted a private sector round table on best practices to improve the effectiveness of infrastructure procurements. USAID Mission Director Jene Thomas provided opening...

On October 19, CLDP, in partnership with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), conducted a workshop to build capacity in the country’s MSME Centers (Centros Mipyme) to support small businesses trying to access government contracts. This workshop...

On October 14, CLDP, in collaboration with the Dominican General Directorate for Public Contracting, hosted an academic panel on sustainable public procurement practices with representatives from The George Washington University, El Rosario University from Colombia, and Austral University from...

On October 14, CLDP, in collaboration with the Dominican General Directorate for Public Contracting and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, hosted a workshop on international experiences in developing regulation and policy for sustainable public procurement. The workshop provided...

On October 18-20, CLDP led a compliance training for officials from the General Directorate for Public Procurement. The officials are part of a pilot program, and each carry out a function within key Dominican ministries that undertake large procurements. The training focused on the main barriers...

On October 18, CLDP met with the General Directorate for Public Procurement (DGCP) to share best practices on the professionalization of the procurement workforce. CLDP experts provided an overview of the U.S. government’s professionalization practices, including a detailed description of the...

On October 13, CLDP led a technical session with Dominican officials from the General Directorate for Public Procurement, the General Directorate for Governmental Ethics and Integrity, and the Legal Advisory Office of the Presidency, to provide recommendations on the reform of the current draft of...

On July 22-23, CLDP, in cooperation with USAID/Peru, supported the Supervisory Body for State Contracting’s (OSCE) two-day training and evaluation of future procurement professors. CLDP, with its intermittent expert John Meeuwissen, a former professor at the Defense Acquisition University (DAU)...

CLDP, in collaboration with Peru’s General Directorate for Supply, will publish a guidebook and toolkit on best practices in conducting market research, micro-purchases, and emergency contracting and how to adapt these practices to the Peruvian context. This is part of CLDP’s effort to assist Peru...