Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. And two-thirds of public spending is conducted through an opaque quasi-governmental sector. The new regime’s reforms have been met with skepticism by some observers.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

The guidance reflects changes to the Scottish Government’s policy on mandating payment of at least the real Living Wage to workers involved in delivering public contracts and the two additional criteria that were added to FWF in 2021.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

By Torplus Yomnak, Co-Founder of HAND Social Enterprise and the Director of the Knowledge Hub for Regional Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Collaboration (KRAC) In May 2021, amid the pandemic lockdowns, a villager in Thailand took a stroll on the outskirts of their town, making an unexpected discovery that would stir the local community.

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Corruption Data Procurement Public Procurement 113

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Open contracting approach: The open contracting risk monitoring platform Opentender.net empowers auditors to prioritize which procedures to investigate, gather evidence and respond to public complaints more effectively.

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Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But these businesses rarely take part in public procurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. To realize that vision, in 2021, EKBPP joined OCP’s Lift accelerator program.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Bidding 89

Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I think it is appropriate to look into his legacy of 8 years as PM in the field of public procurement. I don't have specific recollections about procurement in Portugal in 2020, since the UK Covid contracts sucked enough of my energy and attention of their own. About 2021, however is a different story.

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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

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. Results : Levels of green procurement uptake across Lithuanian public institutions have increased to 94% by value and 93% by total procedures as of 1 December 2023.

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Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Arthur, Minister for Employment and Investment, for his support to procurement whilst in his previous role. So looking back, we’ve published our Annual Ministerial Report on Procurement Activity in Scotland for 2021-2022, again, demonstrating the power of procurement.

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Procurement Public Procurement Procurement Strategies Buyers 58

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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Innovation Procurement Government Government 78

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Results: A year after the new procurement law was passed, the public procurement agency (DNCP) is using machine-learning to identify tenders that are most likely to be awarded to smaller businesses. Firstly, they gathered the three key public procurement actors in the same team and aligned on the same vision.

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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

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

Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

Public Procurement Report The latest National Audit Office (NAO) report provides detailed recommendations for UK Government departments’ to maximise the benefits of effective competition when they run public procurement processes.

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Framework Agreement Public Procurement Supplier Bidding 52

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

University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector. 12 goals of value for money and public benefit and s.13

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Procurement Public Procurement Public Goods Accountability 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 7, 2024

Commentary on Directive 2014/24/EU (Edward Elgar 2021) 274-286. While it is plain that only economic operators from covered third-countries have a legally enforceable right to participate in public tenders on equal terms, it is by no means clear that other economic operators must necessarily be excluded from participation.

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VWV

MAY 19, 2021

Critical and urgent procurements, together with other procurements which may not have started as urgent, have become priorities, due to the volume of additional work created by the pandemic. This is likely to be harder for non-NHS contracting authorities to demonstrate unless the nature of the contract is for public health.

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The Procurement School

MARCH 22, 2024

In late 2020, we took a bold step into the unknown by releasing the First Nation Procurement Policy, [1]which was collaboratively designed and written with our First Nation Partners. Yukon Government has used bid bonding as a risk mitigation tool on many procurements, particularly on construction-related tenders.

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Procurement Public Procurement Collaboration Bidding 52

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. As the PPDS Communication stresses To unlock the full potential of public procurement, access to data and the ability to analyse it are essential.

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Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities. ” 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.

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Procurement Sustainability IT E-procurement 52

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Collaborative Framework for the provision of Postal Services A Category A (National) dual-lot, dual-supplier framework for the provision of Postal Services commenced on 1 July 2021 for a maximum period of 4 years to 30 June 2025. The Centres of Expertise (CoEs) and the Civils UIG have noted/endorsed, respectively, the Procurement Strategy.

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Telles.eu

MARCH 23, 2023

Transtejo, the public company who runs the ferries in Lisbon acquired 10 electric ferries to renew its fleet with the Portuguese Audit Court torpedoing the whole thing when running its legality assessment of the contract(s). The company doesn’t bite and both attempts fail.

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Tender Procurement Public Procurement Manufacturing 100

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

More often than not, public procurement of technology is viewed as non-transparent, uncompetitive, poorly planned, inefficient, costly, and having high failure rates. The G-Cloud initiative in the UK provides a framework for public sector organizations to easily and cost-effectively procure cloud computing services.

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Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 138

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The professional ProBI module is a report-building tool that allows advanced Qlik users to create and save their own selections and customize the appearance of reports based on all available parameters in the Prozorro procurement system.

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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). Tracking down the evidence can also be a difficult and slow process, and it can take years to reach a final outcome.

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Procurement Tender E-procurement Bidder 62

University of Bristol

MAY 26, 2023

While the AI White Paper is cognisant of this situation, the Government does not seem to think this is a problem and, rather, that there are alternative mechanisms to control the adoption of AI by the public sector.

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