2015 and Tender - Public Procurement Central

Preparing for the central digital platform: Key updates, supplier actions, and data protection insights under the Procurement Act

VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As part of the reforms, the current Find a Tender system will be improved to create a Central Digital Platform. This contrasts with the position under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 - where disclosure "might prejudice fair competition between economic operators".

Supplier

Supplier Data Procurement Tender

The four key drivers that can enable better IT procurement

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.

Procurement

Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership

Innovation procurement under the Procurement Act 2023 -- changing procurement culture on the cheap?

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Using product demonstrations alongside written tenders will help buyers get a proper appreciation of solutions being offered by suppliers. 48 and 46 PCR 2015). 48 and 46 PCR 2015). 30 PCR 2015). That is particularly impactful for newer, more innovative solutions which the authority may not be familiar with. 20 PA 2023).

Procurement

Procurement Innovation E-procurement Buyers

Five ways to improve public sector procurement for startups

Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

These figures aren’t helped by the fact that the proportion of public sector contracts awarded without a competitive tender is rising ( 15 per cent in 2016 to 22 per cent in 2017 and then 23 per cent in 2018 ). With many eSourcing solutions being used across the country, many tenders require separate application processes just to apply.

Procurement

Procurement Tender Supplier Bidding

Chile’s procurement monitoring system now open to the public

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For open tenders, monitoring has a preventive function, since the review is conducted from the moment the tender is announced, through to the awarding and issuing of purchase orders, including when the bidders submit their offers. million relates to open tendering processes that were awarded, US$17.7 Of these, US$19.5

Procurement

Procurement E-procurement Tender Purchasing

Public Procurement Legal and Regulatory Framework

The Procurement ClassRoom

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Example of national procurement laws include the Public Procurement and Concessions Act 2010 of Liberia , the Public Procurement Act (Amendment) 663 of Ghana , and the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act 2015 of Kenya. Usually, the national procurement law of a country originates from the legislature.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Procurement Tender Bidding

Key guidance notes released in build up to Procurement Act 2023

VWV

AUGUST 20, 2024

Transitional and Saving Arrangements - This sets out the transitional arrangements for existing procurements, framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems, which will generally continue under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and guidance for deciding when the Act applies to new procurements. The guidance note also covers notices.

Procurement

Procurement Bidder Tender Supplier

Frameworks under the Procurement Act - FAQs

VWV

AUGUST 29, 2024

A list of the relevant CPV codes can be found in the Contract or Tender Notice and supporting documentation. The total anticipated value of the framework must be advertised in the Contract or Tender Notice. Both the framework and call-offs under it will be governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Procurement

Procurement Tender Framework Agreement Supplier

The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The urgent need to stem these ills led to the first wave of reforms that saw an overhaul of colonial era and post-independence procurement structures in the form of Tender Boards that were characterized by centralized procurement, lack of transparency, outdated legal framework and weak dispute management mechanisms.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency

Procurement Act 2023: What’s next and why you should act now

VWV

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Transitional provisions With this delay, any procurements of new contracts, including frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems (DPS), that begin before February 24, 2025, will continue to be governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This includes call-offs under existing framework agreements and DPS for their remaining terms.

Procurement

Procurement Supplier Tender Procurement Strategies

Essential Supplies and Services - Procurement Relief for Extreme Urgency

VWV

APRIL 23, 2020

Under regulation 32(2)(c) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, it is necessary to demonstrate: The time limits for the use of the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation cannot be complied with due to extreme urgency. The case ultimately settled out of court.

Procurement

Procurement Tender Freight Negotiation

10 common myths holding women back in government contracting and leadership

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

Resource: How to empower women-led businesses and make public procurement more inclusive Myth 3: Women can only lead small businesses and can only succeed in certain nontechnical or informal sectors In the Dominican Republic , in 2015, almost 40% of women-led suppliers were in construction.

Government Contracts

Government Contracts Leadership Government Government

Direct Awards of PPE Contracts - What Lessons Can Be Learnt?

VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The public procurement rules recognise there are certain circumstances when public bodies, including universities, can derogate from the general principle of advertising and tendering contract opportunities and directly award a contract. The two key derogations relate to the direct award of new contracts and modifying existing contracts.

Tender

Tender Contract Supplier Procurement

The Bid Evaluation Process

The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 26, 2019

It may also be called the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT). Synonymous terms are quotation review panel, bid review board or tender review committee, to name a few. The best offer recommended as a result of bid evaluation is referred to as the lowest responsive evaluated bid.

Evaluation

Evaluation Bidding Bidder Price

Navigating Contract Termination Procurement Act 2023

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Differences from Previous Procurement Regulations TheProcurement Act 2023 reformpresents several key differences compared to theContracts Regulations 2015, concentrating on transparency, efficiency, and supplier governance.

Procurement

Procurement Contract Supplier Public Procurement

Arbitration With Public Entities in Brazil: Must Regulatory Agencies Participate?

Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This, however, is not the most interesting aspect of the discussion, as the revision of the Brazilian Arbitration Act in 2015 buried most discussions in that regard and both the Contract and the Notice contained clear arbitration agreements.

Participation

Participation Evaluation Bidding Public Bidding

Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

In Slovakia, the data collection process is prone to error due to the several Call for tenders and Contract award publication form types that were also changed throughout the year (i.e. the same information is reported in very many different and changing formats). However, the average number of received bids increases by 0.5

Bidder

Bidder Transparency Contract Public Procurement

Where does pressure for public procurement transparency come from? Reflections from Uganda and Tanzania

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The Tanzania Contract Monitoring Coalition assumed this role during the previous administration but was dissolved in 2015 by the current government. While some individual agencies are actively promoting transparency and the publication of tenders is ongoing, little attention is paid to ensuring that data are comprehensive.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Transparency Procurement E-procurement

The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And those difficulties and clashes are exacerbated by several layers of multi-level governance and decision-making in public procurement, which create additional scope for conflict and contestation in the process of translating general legislative and policy goals into decisions on the design of public tenders and public contracts.

Procurement

Procurement Public Procurement Public Goods Accountability

LIDW 2024: Bank Collapse and ISDS: Arbitration Strategy and Dramatis Personae

Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 7, 2024

Questions ranging from how the situation may evolve into an ISDS case, whether it is possible to deal with the potential dispute inhouse or how to establish the tender procedure for outside counsel require immediate attention by the state. Cameron Miles underscored that circumstances have changed since 2015 (see e.g. Po š tov á Banka v.

Tender

Tender Insurance Influencing Finance

The Public Procurement Glossary

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. It covers everything from tendering and bidding to contract management. Invitation To Tender What does ITT mean in procurement? Unlike an Invitation to Tender (ITT), RFPs allow for more flexibility in responses.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Tender

Are there any gains to be had from the proposed new provider selection model for NHS commissioning?

University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

NHS commissioning is currently subjected to both the Public Procurement Regulations 2015 (PCR2015, aka the UK’s copy-out transposition of Directive 2014/24/EU) and the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013.

Tender

Tender E-procurement Procurement Transparency

Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

By 2015, there was a £4 billion ($5.09 Transparency – A 2017 study of more than four million government contracts in the European Union (EU) found that every additional item of information published about a tender decreased the risk of a single-bid contract. In 2010, 80 percent of government IT work was undertaken by 18 suppliers.

Innovation

Innovation Procurement Government Government

Procurement, State Aid, and the Brexit Transition - What Happens Now?

VWV

JANUARY 4, 2021

Some minor amendments have been made to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to ensure the rules will work in practice for a UK domestic system. For example, procurement notices will be published on the Find a Tender service , rather than the Official Journal of the European Union.

Procurement

Procurement Thresholds Award Criteria Tender

Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate. 2015) and the Multi-Genre NLI (Williams et al., 2018) dataset.

Procurement

Procurement Public Procurement Green Public Procurement Electronics

GAO Bid Protests: Required Debriefings

Procurement Notes

JUNE 15, 2021

1] See, e.g., Gorod Shtor, B-411284 , 2015 CPD ¶ 162, at 2 (May 22, 2015) (“Gorod Shtor asserts that its protest is timely because its protest was filed within 10 days of receiving its debriefing. 27] See Rhonda Podojil-Agency Tender Official, B-311310 , 2008 CPD ¶ 94, at 1 (May 9, 2008). [28] 26] See General Revenue Corp.,

Bidding

Bidding E-procurement Procurement Negotiation

The Need to Secure Trust and Accountability in Arbitration: DJO v DJP or the ‘Copy and Paste’ Case

Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Facts In 2015, DJO was negotiating various contracts for the operation of a network of railway lines in India. DJP, DJQ, and DJR, who were the respondents in the setting-aside application (the Respondents), tendered for one of the contracts.

Accountability

Accountability Balance Import Tender

Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

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.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Procurement Buyers Tender

Looking into Antonio Costa legacy as PM from a procurement perspective

Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It should be said though that centre right government which preceded him did not do so before the general election of October 2015, barely six months before the end of the transposition deadline. That train tender 2021 also brought us *that* train tender, for which, at the time of writing there is still no award.

Procurement

Procurement Thresholds Tender Transparency

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Looking into Antonio Costa legacy as PM from a procurement perspective

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