Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

MAY 24, 2018

Tennessee construction attorney Matthew DeVries has described the outcome of an Alabama court case in which a bidder left out the word "thousand" in a bid price and was held to the significantly lower bid amount by the public agency. Mike Purdy's Public Contracting Blog © 2018 by Michael E. Purdy Associates, LLC - [link]

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Mercell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

On September 11, 2018, The National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP) invited Negometrix CEO, Jan Siderius, to present an hour long webinar regarding Best Value Procurement. Scoring, especially price scoring 7. Simulate (before engaging with bidders) 8. Worried to defend non-price criteria 3. Why Best Value?

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Telles.eu

MARCH 23, 2023

This was correctly rejected by the Audit Court who applied the original 2018 version of Article 370 but I do not think they understood this amounted to fraud by Transtejo since the only reason for the attempts was to bring the new draft of Art 370 into play.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

billion target by using 2015-16 prices as its baseline. Even if prices had not reduced in any year compared with the year before, a saving was reported as long as prices were lower than that of the baseline year. Source: NHS Supply Chain - New operating model (2018). [2] emphasis added).

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

​The UK Government procured 72% of its large contracts through framework agreements in 2021-22 compared to 43% in 2018-19. The expected level of single bidders within UK government’s major markets was not assessed. For example, in 2022, only 5 of 16 UK Government departments published a complete set of contract data.

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Procureware

DECEMBER 29, 2017

My favorite new features for 2017 include: • API • Approval workflows • Certifications • Connected bid events • Invite unregistered bidders • My Dashboard • PDF reports • Ranked reverse auction • Supplier view of contracts API Long before ProcureWare was developed, we envisioned an application that would easily connect to other business systems.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, as the pervasive abuses of direct awards under the emergency conditions generated by the covid pandemic evidenced in virtually all jurisdictions, dispensing with those requirements, checks and balances comes with a very high price tag for taxpayers in terms of corruption, favouritism, and wastage of public funds.

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