Achieving What Works Cities Certification with Clearbox Source
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What Works Cities certification is a recognition awarded to cities that excel in utilizing data and evidence to make informed decisions that benefit their communities. Clearbox Source streamlines the process and harnesses the power of data; offering key areas to support.
As our cities continue to evolve and embrace new innovations, it's crucial that we keep pace with these changes to create better, safer, healthier, and more equitable communities. This is where What Works Cities certification comes into play. But how can it benefit your city?
Pursuing Data-Driven Excellence
What Works Cities certification is a recognition awarded to cities that excel in utilizing data and evidence to make informed decisions that benefit their communities. It's not just about collecting data; it's about putting it at the center of the decision-making process.
Standard of Excellence
Certification sets a high standard of excellence for cities. It challenges cities to embrace data-driven practices and hold themselves accountable for the outcomes of their decisions. In doing so, it helps raise the bar for governance.
Robust Decision-Making
Certified cities are adept at using data and evidence to inform their decisions. This results in more robust and effective policies, initiatives, and projects. It's about ensuring that every action taken is backed by the most relevant and up-to-date information available.
Safer, Healthier, and Equitable Communities
Ultimately, What Works Cities certification aims to create safer, healthier, and more equitable communities. By making decisions based on data, cities can identify and address pressing issues more effectively, ensuring that no one is left behind.
Clearbox Source: Your Path to Certification
There is a need for market data in government budgeting, sourcing and procurement. Understanding that pivotal role that data plays in making informed choices, Marketplace.city has developed Clearbox Source. This tool offers over 150 Market Landscapes, providing in-depth market research to assist cities in meeting the certification requirements.
Streamlined Research
Researching products or vendors can be a laborious task, requiring countless hours and meetings. Clearbox Source streamlines this process, offering key areas to support, including Results Driven Contracting and Rigorous Evaluations. This helps save time and ensure you have the most relevant data to make informed decisions.
To achieve What Works Cities certification, cities need to take an assessment covering eight foundational practice areas. Two of the more challenging areas to complete are Rigorous Evaluations and Results-Driven Contracting. Once the assessment is completed, cities become part of a community of peers committed to data-driven excellence.
The certification criteria can be grouped by eight foundational practices including data governance, rigorous evaluations, general management, open data, performance & analytics, repurposing, results-driven contracting and stakeholder engagement.
Comprehensive Data
With Clearbox Source, you gain access to critical data about vendors, technology solutions, contracts with other cities, nationwide peer references, and more. This wealth of information empowers you to conduct rigorous evaluations and data-driven contracting, two essential elements of What Works Cities certification.
With Clearbox Source, you will drive contracting and rigorous evaluations through reviewing historical records such as scopes of work, sample vendor questions, entire government contracts and signed agreements, peer reviews and contacts, transaction data and pricing, and procurement vehicles (cooperatives, state contracts, intergovernmental agreements).
Whether your city is seeking What Works Cities certification, or simply desires to operate by the principles of data-driven excellence, Clearbox Source is a valuable tool to help you achieve your goals. In a rapidly changing landscape, it's crucial to harness the power of data to create better cities for all. Try Clearbox Source today and embark on your journey towards a brighter urban future.
