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A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The Public Affairs Section (PAS), U.S. Embassy Bridgetown, of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for eligible candidates to submit applications to carry out a program to encourage young women in the Eastern Caribbean to increase their personal involvement in civic participation, including community organizing and elections. The program will comprise five (5) virtual sessions.  Please follow all instructions below. Priority Region:  Program Objectives: In an effort to encourage greater female participation in politics and government in the Cari...

Funding Opportunity Number: S-DR860-21-NOFO-001  Assistance Listing Number: 19.040  A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a program to share U.S. best practices in transparency mechanisms offered to civil society organizations. Please follow all instructions below.  Program Objectives:   In 2019 the Dominican Republic was ranked 137/180 in the Corruption Perception Index. This index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is p...

>> it is. >> but the simplified acquisition threshold says right now it's at $150,000. we have this $150,000 cap, and everything underneath that we don't need to have a big rigmarole with. we can do procurements pretty easily through underneath that simplified acquisition threshold. i think probably what needs to change is we should raise that from $150,000 to about a half a million dollars but make so it that that only goes to small business, small new businesses so, that we start with smaller projects and we can grow these small businesses into the large suppliers, into companies that can ta...

Right kind of technology. you can see it in the everyday technology that government uses where, you know, you and i with probably carrying around an iphone or an android and, you know, a government employee is still on their, you know, 2006 blackberry because it hasn't been upgraded yet. >> let me ask you this. so you said part of -- you have maintained that part of the reason these bigger firms win is they hire better lawyers and understand how to get through. i think you said there were 1,800 pages of legalese on some of these government contracts that when you're bidding for it that lawyers...