How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The guidance also indicates that ‘ Greater transparency of procurement data will make it easier to see what approaches have been successful and encourage use of those approaches more widely across the public sector.’ 48 and 46 PCR 2015). 30 PCR 2015). And we know this is a process that is very difficult to push forward.

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Procurement Innovation E-procurement Buyers 128

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

For years, the benefits of transparency as a policy tool to increase accountability and counter corruption have been lauded. In public procurement, this has given rise to a global movement promoting procurement data transparency, a.k.a. open contracting. But what do these commitments look like in reality?

Public Procurement 40

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 9, 2024

The TDR Journey to Date GSA first announced the “TDR Pilot” concept in 2015. GSA identified additional benefits, including enhancing transparency across the federal market and increasing opportunities to leverage data towards best value acquisition strategies.

Price 78

Price Transparency Supply Chain Data 78

Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

From 2009-2015, Bejar ran the Protect & Care team, overseeing engineering, product, user research, data, and design. They must be pressured and compelled by regulators and policymakers to be transparent about these harms and how they are addressing them.

Engineering 106

Engineering Media Internal Control Integration 106

Whistleblower Network News

AUGUST 7, 2024

In his opening remarks to the roundtable, Senator Grassley stated that in 2015, he received information from a whistleblower that minors were being released to sponsors with criminal records that included domestic violence and child molestation.

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Transparency Demand Government Government 102

AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2015, Pahlka founded Civic Hall, a collaborative workspace and community center for civic tech innovators, activists, and entrepreneurs. Pahlka served in President Obama’s administration as the deputy chief technology officer from 2013-14, where she worked on initiatives to modernize government technology and improve digital services.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Using the GovSpend platform, she demonstrated how to leverage Spending & POs , one of our most powerful search modules with spending data back to 2015, to conduct vendor research. This revelation motivated him to bring more transparency to government purchasing.

Procurement 105

Procurement Purchasing Price Bidding 105

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. And despite the reforms aimed at improving accountability, perceptions of corruption in public procurement remained high.

Public Procurement 70

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 70

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

By 2015, there was a £4 billion ($5.09 It operates with a regulatory framework based on transparency, efficiency, accessibility, and nondiscrimination. The number of bids received per call for tender increased by around 12 percent for contracts subject to mandatory EU transparency requirements.

Innovation 78

Innovation Procurement Government Government 78

VWV

MAY 23, 2024

Transparency The Regulations set out more detail on the transparency provisions and the requirements of the notices to be published throughout the full lifecycle of a procurement. We have set out some of the key points in the Regulations.

Procurement 52

Procurement Bidder E-procurement Transparency 52

VWV

MAY 23, 2024

Transparency The Regulations set out more detail on the transparency provisions and the requirements of the notices to be published throughout the full lifecycle of a procurement. We have set out some of the key points in the Regulations.

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Procurement Bidder E-procurement Transparency 52

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Key Principles Of Public Procurement Transparency: Clear and Open Processes Public contracts aren’t handed out in secret. Public sector organisations publish this notice to ensure transparency in the procurement procedure, letting everyone know who won the contract and why.

Public Procurement 52

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Whistleblower Network News

JUNE 5, 2024

Mr. Anwar hopes that the NACS and whistleblower awards will aid the country in its goal of ranking within the top 25 of Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by 2034. Most notable is the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) conspiracy , in which US$4.5

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Corruption Accountability Finance Transparency 96

VWV

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Act promises to speed up the procurement process and improve transparency as well as consolidating and simplifying the existing EU based regime. Thresholds Along with the new Act, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 are also due to be amended to revise the threshold amounts in line with currency fluctuations.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Thresholds Procurement Team 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 9, 2024

The TDR Journey to Date GSA first announced the “TDR Pilot” concept in 2015. GSA identified additional benefits, including enhancing transparency across the federal market and increasing opportunities to leverage data towards best value acquisition strategies.

Price 45

Price Transparency Supply Chain Evaluation 45

Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The first volume of selected arbitral awards was published in 2015 on the occasion of VIAC’s 40th anniversary and consisted of 60 awards. It served as VIAC’s response to the increasing call of parties, counsel and arbitrators alike for greater transparency in arbitration through enhanced access to arbitral awards and their reasoning.

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Transparency Collaboration Import Corruption 52

Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

This is important indeed, but enhanced transparency risks aggravating issues, especially when complex. Under Procedural Order No 3 on transparency, which again arose out of considerable disputation among the parties, hearings will be open to the public and so will the transcript (after redaction of confidential information).

Transparency 52

Transparency Integration Integrity Government 52

VWV

MAY 23, 2024

Transparency The Regulations set out more detail on the transparency provisions and the requirements of the notices to be published throughout the full lifecycle of a procurement. We have set out some of the key points in the Regulations.

Procurement 40

Procurement Bidder E-procurement Transparency 40

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

ChileCompra has not only established a formal channel for bidders and citizens to report questionable contracts to authorities for the first time, it has also published the Observatory’s investigation reports and statistics on complaints from the public, making oversight of the procurement system fully transparent. “[In

Procurement 62

Procurement E-procurement Tender Purchasing 62

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 52

Procurement Contract Supplier Public Procurement 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. It establishes a robust methodology to explore what impacts can be measured and also explores the channels through which transparency is indeed impactful – e.g. who are the stakeholders and enablers that are the actual drivers of change using increased transparency.

Bidder 40

Bidder Transparency Public Procurement Contract 40

GovLoop

DECEMBER 9, 2022

San Antonio launched an initiative called SASpeakUp in 2015 to gather better input on the city’s budget and its services. Be transparent. For Alanna Reed, San Antonio’s Director of Communications and Engagement, numbers tell only part of the story. Building on Early Success. But short surveys can produce better results.

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Media Quality Budget Import 59

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 80

Government Contracts Leadership Government Government 80

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 52

Procurement Bidder Tender Supplier 52

GovSpend

MARCH 18, 2024

Using the GovSpend platform, she demonstrated how to leverage Spending & POs , one of our most powerful search modules with spending data back to 2015, to conduct vendor research. This revelation motivated him to bring more transparency to government purchasing.

Procurement 52

Procurement Purchasing Price Bidding 52

SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Back in 2015 , the Office of Federal Procurement Policy tested out a simple survey system for offerors to provide feedback on the acquisitions process. That’s a lot of acquisitions that are not subject to any feedback from outside the agency. But things might change now with the new rule that the FAR Council enacted.

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Participation Utilities Bidding Contract 66

FedInsider

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ben joined GSA in 2015 as an IT Specialist. Mobile network operators are also working to provide their wireless spectrum via satellite so users can roam freely off a traditional network onto a satellite network, which would be transparent to the user. Plus, 5G provides advanced security and resiliency. “5G

Networking 97

Networking E-procurement Engineering Capacity 97

ivalua

APRIL 26, 2019

Back in 2015, with 12000 suppliers, less than 30% PO coverage, and indirect spend largely uncontrolled, a procurement transformation programme was commenced. Transparency and legibility towards suppliers. Around 80% of the firm’s cost base is purchasing costs, so they really have to get this right! Auditability and traceability.

Purchasing 60

Purchasing Supplier Procurement Automotive 60

VWV

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Universities have successfully persuaded the Cabinet Office to introduce a minimum contract value threshold of £2 million in relation to some of the transparency requirements to reduce the administrative burden on universities, particularly regarding the publication of information.

Procurement 40

Procurement Thresholds Framework Agreement Procurement Team 40

VWV

AUGUST 29, 2024

Both the framework and call-offs under it will be governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This means there should be no substantial amendments to the tender or transparency notice or to the award criteria for the award of the framework. What is the maximum length of a framework?

Procurement 52

Procurement Tender Framework Agreement Supplier 52

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. Each of these criteria are explained in more detail in the proposal’s Annex.

Tender 52

Tender E-procurement Procurement Transparency 52

Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The relator in the case served as the interim Chief Information Officer at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory in 2015 and was a part of a team assigned to evaluate Penn State University’s compliance in early 2022. The DOJ has not yet intervened and must notify the Court by September 29, 2023 if it intends to intervene in the case.

Education 52

Education Networking Transparency Supplier 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 13, 2024

These rules integrate contemporary practices and technological advancements to improve the arbitration process’ efficiency, transparency, and flexibility, in order to increase the prominent and stature of CRCICA in MENA. The annually held weeklong Dubai Arbitration Week, colloquially known as DAW, has been taking place since at least 2015.

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Efficiency IT Corruption Transparency 52

Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

See, e.g., Brazil-India BIT (2020) ; Brazil-Ethiopia BIT (2018) ; Brazil-Malawi BIT (2015).) In 2014, South Africa terminated its BITs with six European countries and in 2015 passed the Protection of Investment Act (“PIA”) , which will eventually replace all BITs. See e.g., PSEG v Turkey , ICSID Case No. 6, 12-13).

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Balance Negotiation Thresholds Ethics 52

University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

One could be forgiven for simplifying the goal of procurement to ensuring that public money is well spent , which could be further elaborated (following Schooner 2002 ) to encompass promoting integrity and value for money in the award of public contracts, and acting transparently to facilitate accountability. At first look, s.12(1)

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Procurement Public Procurement Public Goods Accountability 52

VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The procurement rules seek to ensure public bodies adhere to fair and reasonable timetables and procedures, encourage open competition and transparency and deliver best value. This risk might be mitigated to some extent by publication of a voluntary transparency notice before the award of the contract.

Tender 40

Tender Contract Supplier Procurement 40

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 5, 2024

He observed that a lot has changed since the Conference of Parties 21 in 2015, and noted the increased criticism of ISDS as a mechanism used to direct claims against environmental reforms. Further, instances such as the Eco Oro award demonstrate that ISDS tribunals may ignore environmental carve outs, and push states towards regulatory chill.

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