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...

On April 28, CLDP, in coordination with Embassy Skopje, hosted a webinar on bid protests in public procurement with judges and government officials from the Balkans.  The workshop focused specifically on best practices in adjudicating bid protests. A robust bid protest system has the potential to...

On April 28, CLDP, in coordination with Embassy Skopje, hosted a webinar on bid protests in public procurement with judges and government officials from the Balkans.  The workshop focused specifically on best practices in adjudicating bid protests. A robust bid protest system has the potential to...

CLDP will present a webinar on public-private partnership (PPP) project appraisal & preparation as part of its ongoing PPP webinar series for the Bangladeshi line ministries. During the webinar experts will discuss feasibility studies best practices that inform the decision to approve, cancel, or...

In collaboration with the Bangladesh Ministry of Shipping (MoS), CLDP held a webinar on basic public-private partnership (PPP) concepts for MoS employees. PPPs are not well understood within the MoS and the MoS authorities, requiring capacity building initiatives to successfully implement port and...

CLDP presented the Project Identification and Screening webinar as part of its ongoing public-private partnership (PPP) webinar series for Bangladeshi line ministries. During the webinar, experts discussed project screening and identification best practices that enable participants to identify and...