Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

These frameworks have led to big efficiency wins: the traditional tender procedures take between four months and one year to complete while the framework procedure takes between four and six weeks on average. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 138

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

The simplified procurement process worked for tech and focused on outcomes, so the government became a knowledgeable buyer of technology. In 2010, 80 percent of government IT work was undertaken by 18 suppliers. Previously, these typically small-to-medium-sized startup suppliers faced barriers such as annual turnover totals.

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Innovation Procurement Government Government 78

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.

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Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Relatedly, the Slovak Government stated that despite containing explicit references to the tendering of the construction of the stadium, the State aid Decision cannot preempt a fresh assessment of the compliance of this legal structure with EU procurement rules. To my mind, it did so implicitly, which explains paragraph 8 of its Decision SA.46530.

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Procurement Finance Purchasing Public Procurement 52