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. In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria. The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

In 2021, The Hackett Group found in their Supplier Diversity Study that 69% of respondents had global supplier diversity programs with intentions to expand that program over the next several years. This is all stored within Ivalua to provide customers the auditability and traceability to demonstrate process rigor and transparency. .

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The Procurement School

MARCH 22, 2024

Our aim was to be at the forefront of Indigenous Procurement, which was recognised by being listed on the Indigenomics Institute’s 10 to Watch list for 2021[2], and I was fortunate to be provided the opportunity to be the Implementation Lead. Let’s take a look at an example that we have been working with: Bid Bonding.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As a result, by the end of 2021, despite positive growth indicators in the previous quarter, GDP growth slowed to less than 2%. As we’ll discuss, tender contracts are becoming an increasingly viable option for businesses to attract new suppliers and contracts. Public sector tendering contracts have many benefits.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Current, closed, and awarded bids can now be found online, increasing transparency throughout the process. The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities. Now current, closed, and awarded bids can be looked up online, increasing transparency throughout the process.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 12, 2024

As our readers may recall, Ecuador denounced the ICSID Convention in 2009, and later rejoined ICSID in 2021 under President Lasso’s right-wing administration. Corruption allegations in arbitration proceedings relating to Peru remain very common. Following the decision reported last year in Bacilio v.

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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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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

It operates with a regulatory framework based on transparency, efficiency, accessibility, and nondiscrimination. ChileCompra expected savings of 10 percent : As of 2021, the new framework led to average savings of 28 percent compared to market prices. They reduced contracts from six years to nine months.

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VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The procurement rules seek to ensure public bodies adhere to fair and reasonable timetables and procedures, encourage open competition and transparency and deliver best value. This risk might be mitigated to some extent by publication of a voluntary transparency notice before the award of the contract. These are narrowly interpreted.

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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. Of the 235 large contracts recorded on the public contracts database ' Find a Tender ' between January 2021 and January 2023, 20% of contracts that used open competition only received one bid.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. However, data from only 20% of all call for tenders as submitted by public buyers is available and searchable for analysis in one place [ie TED].

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In 2017 I voiced significant concerns about the creation of a new non-transparent procedure to partially replace direct awards. From then on, we've seen the government(s) adopting a progressive - or strategic - deviation from EU rules and particularly, transparency. About 2021, however is a different story.

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University of Bristol

MAY 26, 2023

AI regulation is to be left to existing regulators based on ‘five general principles to guide and inform the responsible development and use of AI in all sectors of the economy’, including accountability, transparency, fairness, safety, and contestability.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While the e-procurement system doesn’t include the quasi-governmental sector and sovereign wealth fund (which aren’t governed by the public procurement law) it provides full transparency on the general procurement market which accounts for at least a third of Kazakhstan’s public spending. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget.

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