How to Establish a Bias-Free Procurement Process (Wise Decision Maker Guide 82)

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Bid protests against a procurement process often center around claims of bias that result in flawed selection decisions. For example, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) put out a report in 2017, which found that a “flawed selection decision” was one of the top four reasons for successful bid protests – and over 22% of bid protests succeeded that year. As a result, it’s critically important for procurement officials to protect the procurement process from bias. Yet their efforts to do so often fall short, leaving them vulnerable to a bid protest.

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It’s Giving Tuesday today, the biggest celebration of charitable generosity of the year. This day provides an opportunity to pull back from the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, after we had a chance to satisfy our own individual desires and needs. Now, we can focus instead on how to make the world a better place.

My own commitment on Giving Tuesday is to the Pro-Truth Pledge. The PTP helps promote truthfulness and reason, and address biases in all life areas, by asking everyone to make a commitment to 12 simple truth-oriented behaviors. Many thousands of people - ranging from ordinary citizens to members of Congress - have taken the pledge at ProTruthPledge.org, and help to hold each other accountable. I hope you do as well and invite you to show your generosity this Giving Tuesday by joining me in making a tax-deductible donation to support this project and its efforts to advance truthfulness and address bias at ProTruthPledge.org/donate.

Recommendations for You

Here are a few pieces of content that I found valuable and hope you will, too:

“Can Behavioral Insights Help Us Improve Our Relationship With Ourselves?” (article) describes how to develop our ability to be resilient and better able to withstand setbacks, form secure and honest relationships, and be realistic in our expectations and less critical of ourselves.
“Mental Models to Help You Cut Your Losses” (article) provides insights on how to fail quickly, wasting minimal resources and allowing you to move on to more successful projects.
“William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation” (podcast and transcript). Given the recent controversy over Effective Altruism’s tie to the collapse of FTX.com due to Sam Bankman-Fried being inspired by this philosophy, I thought it might be illuminating for you to hear this in-depth conversation with the central figure of Effective Altruism, the philosopher William MacAskill.

Hope you find these recommendations helpful!

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