On April 20, CLDP, in coordination with the General Directorate for Public Contracting and the Organization of American States, organized a virtual webinar to discuss international best practices in sustainable public procurement. During the webinar, an international panel of experts shared regional...

On April 8, CLDP, in coordination with the General Directorate for Public Contracting, participated in a virtual webinar with 280 participants to discuss U.S. best practices in preventing and addressing urgent and emergency procurement situations. CLDP spoke on a panel with the national directors of...

On March 30, CLDP, in cooperation with the Dominican Confederation of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, conducted a consultation focused on identifying issues and potential solutions in the country’s current public procurement law that impacts small businesses. The participants represented a...

From August 24-26, CLDP conducted a workshop and a series of meetings with key organizations in the Dominican Republic to launch public procurement support to small businesses. CLDP, in partnership with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MICM)...

On August 25, CLDP conducted a roundtable with the General Directorate for Public Contracting’s (DGCP) newly appointed procurement compliance officers, who will play a key role in the procurement process. The goal was to obtain feedback on past CLDP programming and begin assessing the officers’...

On August 23, the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires, Robert Thomas, hosted a reception at the Ambassador’s residence in Santo Domingo where he introduced CLDP to an audience of Dominican senators and their staff. CLDP provided remarks on the importance of public procurement reform in combating and preventing...

On August 3-4, CLDP, in coordination with the General Directorate for Public Contracting, held a two-day virtual workshop on environmentally sustainable public procurement best practices. Utilizing sustainable procurement tools of the U.S. General Services Administration, as well as experiences from...

On July 14-15, CLDP, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice and General Services Administration, held a two-day virtual workshop for the Dominican General Directorate for Public Contracting (DGCP) and the Procurement Commission on detecting and combating collusion in public procurement...

On June 9, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), in cooperation with U.S. Embassy in Moldova, will host a roundtable for women-owned and operated businesses in Moldova to discuss government contracting. The roundtable will include officials from Moldova’s...

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), in coordination with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia, conducted a three-part webinar series (June 25, July 07, July 19) that focused on public-private partnerships (PPPs) within the broader framework of...