American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

This report encouraged governments big and small to improve the “environment content” of their purchasing policies. As environmental issues have become more important to governments and administrations within the last few decades, it has gotten easier to identify ways to leverage purchasing to support these goals.

Purchasing 97

Purchasing Sustainability E-procurement Procurement 97

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Initially, the reforms focused on two key actions: public institutions were required to create an annual GPP implementation plan with self-defined targets as well as a performance record of their green purchases. million and 4,415 new jobs created in the green economy, according to official figures.

Green Public Procurement 78

Green Public Procurement Public Procurement Procurement IT 78

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

This ensures transparency and encourages innovation, because as providers introduce new services and products, they become automatically purchasable under the framework agreement. From there, the buyer can define the specific requirements for the solution and move to a request for a quotation to build the solution.

Procurement 138

Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 138

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. One key recommendation was to require government buyers to pay advances to MSME suppliers at 20% of the full contract value.

Procurement 62

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Slovak Government decided not to purchase the stadium and it instead challenged the compatibility with EU law of the State aid package due to a fundamental breach of procurement law. Once the stadium was built, NFŠ exercised the put option. This is not what the ECJ wrote in its Judgment.

Procurement 52

Procurement Finance Purchasing Public Procurement 52

Federal News Network

JANUARY 1, 2024

Part of that effort means improving the management of software purchasing. It’s important for agency missions and to reverse the decline that we’ve been seeing since 2010,” Harada said. “To

Category Management 78

Category Management Innovation Budget Management 78