This article discusses the various benefits of publicly-funded open-source software. These benefits include fairness and transparency, economic stimulus, and support of the Federal Source Code Policy Agenda.
This guiding framework supports thoughtful evaluation of how new digital technology-based proposals can affect the U.S. public sector, with a particular focus on their impacts on human rights, social and economic justice, and democratic values. It will benefit funders, procurement officers, and advocates evaluating proposed projects that are often framed as “tech for good,” “justice tech,” or public interest technologies.
Government solicitations to procure custom software are often long, complicated, and take months. By using 18F’s agile contract format, agencies can hire an agile software contractor with a quickly-written dozen-page solicitation, allowing for immense savings in time and money.
18F describes modular contracting, the process of breaking up large, custom software procurements into a small constellation of smaller contracts. Modular procurement requires agile, product thinking, user-centered design, DevSecOps, and loosely-coupled architecture.
The State of California government published guidelines for the safe and effective use of Generative Artificial (GenAI) within state agencies, in accordance with Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-12-23 on Generative Artificial Intelligence.
A set of contract-ready principles and requirements that define how vendors must deliver user-centered, accessible, and data-informed digital services.
This policy brief explores how public procurement can serve as a primary demand-side driver to establish digital sovereignty across the European Union.
A statement of objectives that defines best practices and contract requirements for building modern, user-centered, secure, and agile digital services in government.
This paper explores how legacy procurement processes in U.S. cities shape the acquisition and governance of AI tools, based on interviews with local government employees.
