Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Between 2021 and 2022, the rejection rate of complaints submitted by citizens has halved from 78% in 2021 to 39% in 2022, cases resolved by auditing authorities have increased from 53% to 63%, and response times are faster, taking 262 days down from 338 days in 2021. In the third, poor quality materials had been used.

Corruption 90

Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

We needed specialist suppliers to help us develop new services and train people to deliver them. Previously, these typically small-to-medium-sized startup suppliers faced barriers such as annual turnover totals. In 2010, 80 percent of government IT work was undertaken by 18 suppliers. By 2015, there was a £4 billion ($5.09

Innovation 78

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. One key recommendation was to require government buyers to pay advances to MSME suppliers at 20% of the full contract value.

Procurement 62

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Massy, France 18 March , 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, and CKS BeNeLux today announced that Punch Powertrain has successfully deployed Ivalua’s platform to support the digital transformation of the strategic sourcing process.

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Strategic Sourcing E-auction Automotive E-procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Approach : Lithuania launched an ambitious public procurement reform in 2021 to reduce the country’s carbon footprint and ensure every public procurement decision considers its environmental impact. The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023. You can see how green different procurement procedures are too.

Procurement 89

Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Open contracting approach: Supported by OCP’s Lift Impact accelerator program from 2021, Ekiti State’s public procurement agency created better opportunities for small businesses and particularly women-led businesses, to participate in public contracts. To realize that vision, in 2021, EKBPP joined OCP’s Lift accelerator program.

Procurement 89

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Bidding 89

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. They argue that in doing so, more smaller firms would stay involved in public procurement processes , while reducing UK Government department reliance on a few large suppliers.

Framework Agreement 52

Framework Agreement Public Procurement Supplier Bidding 52

Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

So looking back, we’ve published our Annual Ministerial Report on Procurement Activity in Scotland for 2021-2022, again, demonstrating the power of procurement. These are a rich source of information for buyers and suppliers and provide valuable information which enables us to produce the Annual Ministerial Report.

Procurement 57

Procurement Public Procurement Procurement Strategies Buyers 57

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’).

Tender 52

Tender E-procurement Procurement Transparency 52

VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The public procurement rules recognise there are certain circumstances when public bodies, including universities, can derogate from the general principle of advertising and tendering contract opportunities and directly award a contract. The two key derogations relate to the direct award of new contracts and modifying existing contracts.

Tender 40

Tender Contract Supplier Procurement 40

ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

They are a leader in 25 countries, with over 30 million customers every month, over 45,000 employees, and almost 2 billion in sales in 2021. By bridging the gaps, Amrest could even start the tendering process earlier with a wider range of suppliers. Suppliers can support company growth as part of the Amrest procurement journey.

Finance 52

Finance Supply Chain Procurement Supplier 52

VWV

JANUARY 4, 2021

For contracting authorities and suppliers bidding for public sector contracts, the procurement rules remain largely unchanged, at least for the moment. For example, procurement notices will be published on the Find a Tender service , rather than the Official Journal of the European Union.

Procurement 40

Procurement Thresholds Award Criteria Tender 40

University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And those difficulties and clashes are exacerbated by several layers of multi-level governance and decision-making in public procurement, which create additional scope for conflict and contestation in the process of translating general legislative and policy goals into decisions on the design of public tenders and public contracts.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Public Goods Accountability 52

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Collaborative Framework for the provision of Legal Services A new Category B (Central Government) multi-lot, multi-supplier framework for the provision of Legal Services commenced on 1 September 2023 for a maximum period of 4 years to 31 August 2027. Initial contracts meetings were held with all suppliers.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Framework Agreement Supplier Purchasing 44

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Collaborative Framework for the provision of Legal Services A new Category B (Central Government) multi-lot, multi-supplier framework for the provision of Legal Services commenced on 1 September 2023 for a maximum period of 4 years to 31 August 2027. Initial contracts meetings were held with all suppliers.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Framework Agreement Supplier Purchasing 40

Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

In 2021, more than 822,000 Brits were reported to be suffering from work related stress according to statistics from HSE – which translates to 25% of all work-related illnesses over the course of the calendar year. It should come as no surprise that burnout become a major issue among British workers during the past two years.

Buyers 52

Buyers Balance Tender Transportation 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Results : About a year after the launch of the new strategies, vendor registration has tripled, with local businesses representing 21% of their suppliers, with 9% women-owned, and 6% minority-owned businesses (from 373 to 1113 registered vendors, as of 20 June). The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities.

Procurement 52

Procurement Sustainability IT E-procurement 52

Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Instead, the Industrial Base Policy M&A office merely has broad discretion to assess “covered transactions” involving “major defense suppliers” as defined in DoD’s M&A policy under Directive 5000.62. The pilot program must be established within 90 days of enactment.

Government 40

Government Government Export Data 40

Bonfire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Government projects rose 39% during 2021 as signs of an exit from the pandemic were felt across the globe. Today’s your lucky day because the team at Bonfire has pulled together four tips to help suppliers in the construction space win big when it comes to government contracts (and save costs while doing it!). And late last year, U.S.

Bidding 52

Bidding Tender Buyers Freight 52

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Since 2021, cases of corruption and other irregularities detected by the group Adildik Joly have led to fines worth KZT 244 million (~US$511,000), as well as 66 criminal cases, and 1100 administrative protocols (formal warnings to civil servants). million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget.

Procurement 120

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 120

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.

Procurement 62

Procurement Tender E-procurement Bidder 62

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Both modules allow for comprehensive, in-depth analysis of public procurement using an exhaustive range of parameters (such as goods and their classifications, tenders, lots, and complaints; for any selected period; and any combination of selection criteria).

Public Procurement 67

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Buyers 67

University of Bristol

MAY 26, 2023

This limits the technical prescriptiveness that is allowed to the public buyer, which necessarily means that it is not easy or at all possible to use procurement tools to embed defined and mandatory regulatory requirements in the tender procedure and in public contracts.

Buyers 52

Buyers Government Government Procurement 52