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 September 9th 2021, CLDP met with the U.S. Embassy and two senior representatives from the telecommunications agency of the government of Guyana to review proposed priority areas for technical assistance as approved.  Potential topics for capacity building include spectrum management, universal...