Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. Firstly, they gathered the three key public procurement actors in the same team and aligned on the same vision.

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Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

Public sector agencies need to be able to access the cloud, and they do so through public procurement processes. Procurement’s role in supporting modern, digital services for governments is the subject of a report from the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Open Contracting Partnership (OCP).

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

How the School of Applied Research in Public Procurement trained community leaders to dig into government contracting issues in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The first phase, Introductory Course on Public Procurement, took place online from October to December 2021.

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Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Participation 52

How to Crack a Nut

MAY 8, 2024

©Ausrine Kuze, Distorted Reality , 2021. James McKinney and Volodymyr Tarnay of the Open Contracting Partnership have published ‘ A gentle introduction to applying AI in procurement ’. In this post, I venture some thoughts on meaning, AI, and public procurement big data.

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Procurement Tender Import Public Procurement 75

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

Public Procurement: Building Business Cases and Driving Momentum. For the Government, supplier diversity programs are something procurement professionals in the United States (US) have accepted as a key element to their procurement success. Today, many US businesses proudly maintain robust supplier diversity programs. .

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Supplier E-procurement Ethics Supply Chain 98

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations.

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Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52

University of Bristol

JULY 15, 2018

The Web Accessibility Directive must be transposed into UK law by 23 September 2018 and will generate obligations for new websites from 2019, for pre-existing websites from 2020, and for all public sector apps from 2021. All apps will have to comply from 23 June 2021.

Education 52

Education Public Procurement Procurement Government 52

University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the relatively recent developments in the post-Brexit review of UK public procurement law is the February 2021 proposal for the replacement of the current rules on the commissioning of healthcare services for the purposes of the English NHS (for background, you can watch here ), with a new provider selection regime (‘the proposal’).

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Tender E-procurement Procurement Transparency 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

” Scott Sanders Des Moines City Manager Open contracting approach In 2021, a team from the City Manager’s office and Division of Finance-Procurement began investigating how they might better fold equity and inclusion into Des Moines’ purchasing practices. Des Moines bought its first electric garbage truck.

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Procurement Sustainability IT E-procurement 52

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

They are also responsible for the procurement of innovation. This is an update on the national collaborative frameworks and contracts we offer to public sector buyers in Scotland. Further information and a buyers guide can be found here. Further information on this framework can be found here.

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Collaboration Framework Agreement Supplier Purchasing 44

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There are specific dashboards that analyze prices on the central e-catalog , medical procurement , buyer evaluations , Energy Services Company (ESCO) procurement, or internal auditing practices.

Public Procurement 67

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Buyers 67

Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

As many as 90 cases of suspected fraud in public procurement were reported to the National Public Procurement Agency (LKPP) in 2021, according to an analysis by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW). This system can be used to assess whether a company meets the qualification requirements set by the buyer.

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Procurement Tender E-procurement Bidder 62

University of Bristol

MAY 26, 2023

Given the large number of civil service data and data science unfilled vacancies, public buyers are inadequately staffed to confront and negotiate with much more knowledgeable and well-resourced tech companies—and at risk of being captured or deceived by companies selling snake oil. The answer is a resounding ‘no’.

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Buyers Government Government Procurement 52