How to Crack a Nut

MAY 8, 2024

©Ausrine Kuze, Distorted Reality , 2021. One of the issues that kept coming up concerns why contracting authorities cannot benefit from the same advances that are touted as being offered to (private) tenderers. In this post, I venture some thoughts on meaning, AI, and public procurement big data.

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

The program holds valuable lessons for others working to empower contracting monitors with different skills and backgrounds to work closely together to foster transparency and better procurement practices in their regions. The first phase, Introductory Course on Public Procurement, took place online from October to December 2021.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The KSA’s Government Tenders and Procurement Law also received an important update in June 2023 with the issuance of Resolution No. The KSA’s Government Tenders and Procurement Law also received an important update in June 2023 with the issuance of Resolution No. 25, 27, and 36), and an express emphasis on efficiency and economy (Art.

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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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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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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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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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University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

One could be forgiven for simplifying the goal of procurement to ensuring that public money is well spent , which could be further elaborated (following Schooner 2002 ) to encompass promoting integrity and value for money in the award of public contracts, and acting transparently to facilitate accountability. At first look, s.12(1)

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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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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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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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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. A successful example of the market consultation process was the RFI conducted for the Magento Cloud implementation for the public marketplace of framework agreements in 2021.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A new case study we developed together with Transparency International Ukraine (TI Ukraine) examines how Prozorro’s data analytics tools have become an integral part of the work of more than 30,000 people across government, monitoring institutions, the private sector and civil society, even as the country grapples with Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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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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