As part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities initiative, the GPL provided pro bono technical assistance to help Louisville design and pilot a strategic procurement system to improve the outcomes of the City’s contracted dollars.
In order to identify the City’s most important and challenging upcoming procurements and to develop solutions for improving the performance of the contracts, Louisville and the GPL:
- Designed a strategic procurement system.
- Tested the new system on three key upcoming procurements.
- Refined the strategic procurement system based on the successes and challenges of the pilot.
- Formalized opportunities to collaborate and share best practices from high-performing contracts across multiple departments.
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