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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. on average in 2021 to 10.23 The average number of bidders per lot rose from 3.16

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Ivalua Sees Accelerating Momentum with Another Record Year in 2018

ivalua

In 2018 Ivalua invested heavily to accelerate its already significant level of innovation, increasing R&D resources by 94%. New forecast and order collaboration capabilities allow companies to improve collaboration between buyers and suppliers, reducing cycle times and risk of supply chain disruptions.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

I will not focus on the detail of procurement rules, which is better left to in-depth analysis (eg Arrowsmith [2014] and [2018] , Steinicke and Vesterdorf [2018] , or Caranta and Sanchez-Graells [2021] ). Overall, EU procurement law offers a diverse toolkit for public buyers to embed sustainability requirements.

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Central Government Procurement Shared Services (CGPSS) Celebrates One Decade of Excellence: Our 10-Year Anniversary

Scottish Government Procurement

CGPSS can also support the development of procurement policy and procedures, deliver procurement training courses and provide mentoring to an organisations own buyers and end-users. Our journey was recognised in 2018, when CGPSS received the Highly Commended award under the Leadership category at the prestigious GO Awards Scotland event.

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GSA’s commercial platforms program to grow by five providers

Federal News Network

Lawmakers detailed its desire for GSA to pilot online commercial platforms in Section 846 of the 2018 Defense Authorization bill. They also put competitive pressure on the Schedules program to improve its administrative efficiency, which is a positive result that will help buyers and sellers in the market.”

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Or how could buyers minimize the very real risk of greenwashing?

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How Ukraine’s procurement appeals tool Clarity App promotes fair competition

Open Contracting Partnership

It was impossible to analyze the decisions of Ukraine’s procurement review body, the Antimonopoly Committee, in a comprehensive way to understand when the outcome favored the buyer and when it favored the vendor. percentage points more than the average success rate for appeals in Prozorro (72%), excluding Clarity App buyers.