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Five ways to improve public sector procurement for startups

Nitrous: Public Procurement

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.

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

VWV

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.

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

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

For example, when we take a whole year of contracts after a transparency reform taking place in May, our estimation may be biased if a procurement regulatory reform happened 5 months later, such as a new reporting threshold introduced. the same information is reported in very many different and changing formats).

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The Public Procurement Glossary

Tracker Intelligence

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.

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

VWV

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.

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GAO Bid Protests: Required Debriefings

Procurement Notes

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.,

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

Kluwer Arbitration

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. It may well be possible that the decision to redact his name was the correct one.