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    Increasing Vendor Diversity in St. Paul, Minnesota

    April 13, 2017

    Through the What Works Cities Initiative, GPL Assistant Director Jen North and Senior Advisor Greg Wass worked with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota to engage vendors, increase the number of vendor responses, and improve competition. Read more about how the city is building on these efforts to increase its vendor diversity and better understand why it wasn’t adequately reaching small, women- or minority-owned businesses. Read more.

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    Veritalk: Boston, MA Asphalt Resurfacing Project Featured in "Pothole Politics"

    January 31, 2019

    "Potholes not only tell you about the state of your infrastructure, they also tell you about the nature of participation in your city." GPL Fellow Elijah de la Campa spoke about the GPL's Boston, MA Asphalt Resurfacing project and some of the surprising discoveries he made on Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences podcast, ...

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    Government Technology: Incentivizing Excellence in Boston Through Results-Driven Contracting

    April 26, 2017

    In a post for GovTech, Stephen Goldsmith describes how the GPL helped Boston's Department of Public Works Construction Management Division implement results-driven contracting to increase the overall quality of repaving efforts, to improve communication and transparency with vendors, and to enhance the articulation and measurement of outcomes crucial to the asphalt resurfacing process....

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