Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As well in June, we had Meet the Buyer National, a great event that took place in Hampden Park in Glasgow, where businesses, social enterprises, and third sector organisations, all came together with Scottish public procurers. A really good and enjoyable event. Please pass this on and encourage more of your suppliers to complete the survey.

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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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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This part of the dispute concerned the definition of ‘public works contracts’ under Directive 2014/24/EU (issue 1). Framing: Directive 2004/18/EC, Directive 2014/24/EU, or it does not matter? This relates to the ‘strategic’ use of procurement remedies by contracting authorities that have breached procurement law (issue 3).

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

NHS commissioning takes place in a largely in-house environment where NHS buyers commission services primarily from NHS suppliers, but also with mixed private participation by both for-profit and third sector providers. 2) Regulations 2013.

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University of Bristol

OCTOBER 14, 2019

It can also support public buyers in identifying the green or sustainable public procurement criteria that will deliver the biggest improvements measured against any chosen key performance indicator, such as CO 2 footprint, as well as support the development of robust methodologies for life-cycle costing.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

In 2014, the European Union (EU) took steps to encourage supplier diversity by implementing a social procurement policy. Buoyed by action from the Canadian government, they launched a new agile procurement initiative in 2018 with the stated purpose of simplifying its procurement process e for small and diverse businesses. .

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Procurement would thus be a set of administrative law requirements concerned with the design and advertisement of tenders for public contracts, the decision-making process leading to the award of those contracts, and the advertisement and potential challenge of such decisions.

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