Scottish Government Procurement

JULY 2, 2024

We’re pleased to welcome a blog from Denis McFadden, Deputy Director, Procurement Services Division to reflect on the procurement role MPIP have played in supporting and enabling the delivery of new Social Security benefits in Scotland. MPIP adapted the procurement documentation to meet the demands of Agile delivery.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

Yet for decades, the residents of Villa 20, one of Buenos Airess historic informal settlements, lived without official addresses, access to basic public services, or even clean drinking water. Their neighborhood, though full of life, remained almost invisible to the city around them.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In our 2016–17 ACE project, we focused on collecting data from development aid donors and lenders rather than from national governments, assuming that this would be a more reliable source since such agencies face a lot of pressure to be transparent, and also have the capacity to collect data.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 25, 2019

It is an assessment of the evaluated price of a responsive bid to ascertain that it is not unreasonably high nor unreasonably low, but fair enough to the procuring entity and the supplier. After bid evaluation, the Procurement Agent does a price reasonableness analysis to determine if the price is reasonable. According to Section 6.4

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PwC: Government & Public Sector

JULY 6, 2021

On June 30, the Council of Ministers approved the draft that would delegate to the Government (“Procurement Delegation Law”) the adoption of one or more legislative decrees on public contracts with the purpose of rationalizing, reorganizing and simplifying the current Legislative Decree no.

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PwC: Government & Public Sector

JUNE 17, 2021

50 of 18 April 2016 (“Public Procurement Code”), in order to simplify and facilitate the achievement of the objectives contained in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (“NRRP”). The Council of Ministers has introduced, within the national regulatory framework contained in Decree Law no.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

Five ways to improve public sector procurement for startups For this blog piece, we look at how public sector procurement should improve to help smaller businesses to work with the government. It’s a crucial element needed to improve the health of the economy and grow more innovative public services.

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Telles.eu

JULY 4, 2023

The European Commission has just published a study on the use of the innovation partnership with TED data for the 2016-2022 period and frankly the data shows in a bit more detail what I already knew from preparing a couple of recent conference presentations.

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University of Bristol

JULY 15, 2018

In 2016, the EU adopted the Web Accessibility Directive to foster better access to the websites and mobile applications underpinning public services – in particular by people with disabilities, and especially persons with vision or hearing impairments. As Dr Andrea Gideon and I argued in 2016 *, this is the case.

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Education Public Procurement Procurement Government 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

To shed light on the value of having high-quality procurement data, we spoke to product owner Hans Minkes at TenderNed , the Dutch government’s online tendering system and one of the agencies furthest along in implementing eForms among the EU Member States. The rest come from commercial applications.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 26, 2019

As the field of Procurement is still evolving and scholars don’t seem to subscribe to universal definition of concepts such as what constitute the procurement cycle, this article does not make reference to any textbook or academic publication. Usually this applies to the evaluation of services.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Second, in addressing the effects of a State aid decision on the assessment of compliance with procurement law of the legal structure used to implement the aid package (including the treatment from a procurement perspective of put options as State aid measures). I should from the outset disclose again that I was involved in the case.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 27, 2024

This decision can be seen as an application of its approach in Fosmax ( CE, 9 November 2016, No. Most of the exceptions to the prohibition for public entities to have recourse to arbitration are listed in Article L. 1900269 ) and by the Administrative Court of Appeal of Bordeaux ( CAA Bordeaux, 30 March 2022, No. 2111-14 and L.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 2, 2024

Also, (ii) Worley allegedly violated the Ecuadorian law by misrepresenting its intention to comply with the 30% subcontracting limit mandated by Article 87 of the Public Procurement Law and subsequently breached this limit. In possible exchange, Worley may have awarded Shaw a US$ 1.2 million contract.

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Select GCR

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program, managed by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts office, supports minority-owned businesses in public procurement. Types of Certifications Available A variety of certifications exist for minority-owned businesses, each presenting distinct advantages.

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University of Bristol

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It should then not be surprising that the possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) could ‘change the rules of the game’ (eg Santiso, 2019 ) and bring procurement corruption to an end is receiving significant attention.

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Corruption Public Procurement Procurement Data 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 21, 2023

We integrate data from the Treasure Ministry, the Ministry of Education, and the National Public Procurement Agency so that people can provide feedback and know whether or not the funding is reaching the neediest schools in their municipality, according to the Ministry of Education’s prioritization list.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Kigali is the center of Africa’s public procurement community this week. In time for this year’s Africa Public Procurement Network conference, hosted by Rwanda’s Public Procurement Authority (RPPA), the agency has developed a new open contracting portal that allows anyone to access data on government contracts dating back to 2016.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

APRIL 10, 2016

A new reference book entitled "Procurement Methods: Effective Techniques" by Lourdes Coss, MPA, CPPO, will be published on April 25, 2016. Coss is one of the most highly respected and preeminent public procurement professionals in the nation. It's a desk reference for procurement professionals."

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

DAMEPL setting aside an INR 3000 crore award (roughly USD 341 million) prompted the Ministry of Finance ( Ministry ) to issue an Office Memorandum setting out Guidelines for Arbitration and Mediation in Contracts of Domestic Public Procurement ( Guidelines ). In 2024, India signed investment treaties with Uzbekistan and UAE.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

DAMEPL setting aside an INR 3000 crore award (roughly USD 341 million) prompted the Ministry of Finance ( Ministry ) to issue an Office Memorandum setting out Guidelines for Arbitration and Mediation in Contracts of Domestic Public Procurement ( Guidelines ). In 2024, India signed investment treaties with Uzbekistan and UAE.

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