Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. All Dutch authorities must publish their above-the-threshold tenders via the TenderNed platform , so businesses can access all public data and documents from a single webpage.

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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. The new law that was passed on December 9, 2022 with more details added in the subsequent decree that regulates its implementation.

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BLP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Government of Guatemala promotes two competitive public procurement events (tenders) for the construction or expansion of hospitals, with financing from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). Significantly, the winning bidders must ensure the availability of funds during the contract’s term.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2022, a new unity government was formed under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim coalition’s leadership. Open contracting, a globally recognized framework, advocates for transparency at every stage of the procurement lifecycle including planning, tendering, awarding, and contract management.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Procurement would thus be a set of administrative law requirements concerned with the design and advertisement of tenders for public contracts, the decision-making process leading to the award of those contracts, and the advertisement and potential challenge of such decisions.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For open tenders, monitoring has a preventive function, since the review is conducted from the moment the tender is announced, through to the awarding and issuing of purchase orders, including when the bidders submit their offers. million relates to open tendering processes that were awarded, US$17.7 Of these, US$19.5

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Results: The number of women-led businesses registered in the official state public procurement system increased by 43% from 2021 and 2022 to a total of 158 businesses, winning a total of 47 contracts, up from a mere 7 in 2020. The bidding process was also restructured to lower the barriers for such businesses to register and submit bids.

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Tenders Direct

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Thresholds in effect from 1 January 2022. The post UK Public Procurement Thresholds appeared first on Tenders Direct Blog. Details of current UK Public Procurement Thresholds for different types of goods, works and services.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

By 2022, the government has aimed for 33% of all procurement to be done with SMEs, so there’s a long way to go. These figures aren’t helped by the fact that the proportion of public sector contracts awarded without a competitive tender is rising ( 15 per cent in 2016 to 22 per cent in 2017 and then 23 per cent in 2018 ).

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It has debarred more than 60 suppliers for violations, and reduced unresolved complaints and canceled tenders. in 2020 to 96% and single-bid tenders decreased across all methods – from 62.5% During the pandemic, the agency suspended a tender to buy overpriced digital textbooks. Single-bid tenders decreased from 62.5%

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Scottish Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We have already published insight blogs on the 2022/23 assurance themes , and started publishing our first case study series, focusing on the Census 2022 programme ! In our analysis of recommendations from major digital reviews we have found three distinct themes relating to procurement and contract management.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The media organization ProTenge, which exposed tenders to buy books and publish articles about the ex-President that were subsequently canceled. Civic procurement monitoring in Kazakhstan at a glance Members of Kun Jarygy have monitored 1,222 tenders worth KZT 346 billion (~US$725 million) in the coalition’s first year.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

On April 24 2022 Serik organized a public event in the Academy highlighting approaches promoting interaction between government institutions and civil society in procurement. Rachmaninov went on to organize his own distance learning course for experts and activists in September 2022, with a mini-grant from the School.

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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. Watch the video below, a transcript for this video is also available at the bottom of the page. billion on the previous year, as well as contributing around £7.5

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Redwood, CA, 27th September 2022. To standardize and digitalize its processes, the company was looking for a new procurement solution for the entire group to handle the entire purchasing process for indirect materials, services, and assets, including tendering, and supplier evaluation.

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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. were granted (for violations of Shari’a and public policy).

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

The Umucyo platform is used by 1194 government agencies down to district hospitals – an increase from just over 200 in 2022 – with more than 13,800 suppliers and 26,800 contracts awarded. Rwanda’s debarment regime was also revised in 2022. Procurement does not start from the publication of tenders.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

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. For example, in 2022, only 5 of 16 UK Government departments published a complete set of contract data.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

They also publish resources and run training sessions and other events to support vendors in transitioning to greener offerings and to promote procurement practices that are good for people and the planet, as described in their 2022 activities report. In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate. Lifecycle stages are in gray, factors are in green, and requirements/certifications are in white.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ICC offices in São Paulo report that almost 85% of their total amount in dispute regards cases with Brazilian state entities [fn] As informed by the ICC’s Counsel during the 2022 Brazilian Arbitration Day organized by the ICC in São Paulo, Brazil. [fn]. Contrastingly, BRAMIA allows some state and social control over dispute proceedings.

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Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ICC offices in São Paulo report that almost 85% of their total amount in dispute regards cases with Brazilian state entities [fn] As informed by the ICC’s Counsel during the 2022 Brazilian Arbitration Day organized by the ICC in São Paulo, Brazil. [fn]. Contrastingly, BRAMIA allows some state and social control over dispute proceedings.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 12, 2024

ICSID reported that, out of the new forty-five registered cases, twenty-one were brought against Latin American and Caribbean states (the annual report covers the fiscal year from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023). In other words, almost fifty percent of the new cases registered arose out of disputes in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

times the country’s estimated GDP in 2022. By July 2022, they had unveiled 10 principles for Ukraine’s reconstruction and modernization at the first Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in Lugano , Switzerland. A recent assessment calculates the physical damage from the first year of the war at over $135 billion.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 1, 2024

a Chilean telecommunications company owned by the private investment fund Novator Partners (“ Wom “), won a public tender for the deployment of 5G technology in Chile. For the reasons mentioned below, the case confirms Chile’s long-standing pro-arbitration stance. Background to the Dispute In 2021, Wom S.A.,

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

According to a 2022 report by a cryptocurrency payment gateway company , since the cryptocurrency boom in 2017, Korea has truly become the “crypto hub of Asia,” powering nearly 30% of all cryptocurrency trades. But the unfortunate reality of these voluminous Korea-powered trades is that related disputes will inevitably arise.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Marketing Services (2022) This new Category A Framework commenced on 1 September 2022. The DPS will use a filtering process, based on i) type of works; ii) location; & iii) project value to generate a tender list for each competition. More updates will follow in Q1 of 2024.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 29, 2023

On 1 December 2022, the Tribunal in the Panamericana Television S.A According to Mr. Amorrortu, this protection was breached by a rigged public tender previously schemed between the ruling government and one of the bidders, Graña & Montero. hereafter, “Pantel” or “Claimant”) v.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Marketing Services (2022) This new Category A Framework commenced on 1 September 2022. The DPS will use a filtering process, based on i) type of works; ii) location; & iii) project value to generate a tender list for each competition. More updates will follow in Q1 of 2024.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The AI procurement report presents evidence gathered by DRCF in two workshops with 23 vendors and buyers of algorithmic systems in Autumn 2022. The AI procurement report evidences that UK (public and private) buyers are procuring AI they do not understand and cannot adequately monitor. This is extremely worrying.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

GAO found that DoD reviewed an average of only 40 M&A transactions per year from FY 2018-2022, while it was estimated that approximately 400 such transactions occur annually.

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Tracker Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2024

Occupational Health Tenders The market for occupational health services is expanding globally, fueled by a growing emphasis on worker wellbeing and regulatory adherence. billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 4.47% from 2023 to 2030. billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 4.47% from 2023 to 2030.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2022, the effects were exceptionally severe: 197 people died, over 200,000 were displaced and 5 million were affected. For 2022, Assam released 648 crore (~US$80 million) as relief to make sure the money reaches the worst-affected districts. The impact of flooding in Assam each year on average.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 26, 2024

Hamama led a discussion regarding Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the Donbas region in 2014, outlining the solid ground it created for claiming damages and compensation, and noted that similar claims have emerged following the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 31, 2025

CivicDataLab developed a methodology to identify and measure green public procurement using tender titles. Moving forward, measures to introduce better nomenclature, clearer descriptions of tender titles and tender descriptions, and complete data availability will enable more accurate estimates of the states green performance.

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

ICW used this approach to identify alleged fraud in a purchase of curtains for the residence of parliamentarians [link to case below] in 2022. ICW got a tip-off that the procurement process was just a formality, says Wana. Review Project Implementation This method can only be done for construction works.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Background This dispute originated when Albemarle Limitada (“Albemarle”), a Chilean company involved in the production of lithium, called for tenders for the supply of geomembranes and geotextiles. Eventually, the tenders were awarded to Emaresa Ingenieros y Representaciones S.A. 922-2022 , dated 24 June 2022).

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