VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

With the Procurement Act 2023 set to go live on 24 February 2025, the Cabinet Office has been releasing guidance notes to help both contracting authorities and suppliers prepare. As part of the reforms, the current Find a Tender system will be improved to create a Central Digital Platform.

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VWV

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Cabinet Office has advised that the go-live date for the Procurement Act 2023 has been delayed into 2025. We have now had official confirmation from the Cabinet Office that the go-live date for the Procurement Act 2023 will be delayed until 24 February 2025, almost a 4 month delay. The previous NPPS will be withdrawn.

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How to Crack a Nut

JANUARY 13, 2025

Moreover, some of the other proposals around prototypes and light-touch procurement processes can be problematic when coupled with the Procurement Act 2023 (soon to enter into force). Mission-focussed national AI tenders to support rapid adoption across de-centralised systems led by the mission delivery boards. 41 PA23 and Sch.5

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VWV

AUGUST 20, 2024

As part of the roll out of the new Procurement Act 2023 (the Act), the Cabinet Office is releasing a suite of 38 guidance documents. For example, assessment summaries must be provided before the contract award notice is published and unsuccessful bidders will receive assessment summaries for both their tender and the successful bidder.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

These frameworks have led to big efficiency wins: the traditional tender procedures take between four months and one year to complete while the framework procedure takes between four and six weeks on average. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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VWV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) introduces a range of reforms aimed at simplifying and enhancing transparency in the procurement process, which should be good news for suppliers. Changes to the process for providing feedback on tenders and the standstill period. Introduction of open frameworks. Are there any transitional rules?

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Understanding The Public Sector Contract Termination Under The Procurement Act 2023 Contract termination provisionsare a crucial aspect ofpublic procurement compliance UK, guaranteeing thatcontracting authoritiescan legally and efficiently handle supplier relationships under theProcurement Act 2023.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Results : The Clarity App is building trust among Ukrainian businesses that they can receive a fair decision for procurement appeals and fair competition without discrimination in tenders. In 2023, Ukraine awarded 270,000 public contracts through competitive procedures , worth 555 billion UAH ($15.2 billion (US$1.9 billion (US$1.9

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 31, 2025

Although there was an official delivery plan for the Games, as specified in a September 2023 governmental decree, we found data and documents on its delivery scattered across various public and private actors. Initial estimates suggested total expenditure would exceed 5.72 billion, split between the organization of the Games (1.6

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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.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Lost in Public Space: Exploring the Unknown with the Norwegian Public Sector Segment May 9, 2023 | | Public Sector /by he I have spent most of my career in the private sector and started to get in contact with the space in recent years.

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VWV

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With the Procurement Act 2023 now set to come into force on 24 February 2025, contracting authorities have been given an additional four-month extension to prepare. The changes to the go live date have been confirmed under The Procurement Act 2023 (Commencement No. Where are we now? This is the date everyone must now work toward.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But an amendment to the procurement law in December 2023 has paved the way to making the Observatory’s monitoring systems available to the public too. Since updating the site in December 2023, visitors to the Observatory microsite have increased by more than 300%.

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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). Further, the easement on US sanctions on Venezuela in 2023 might also impact the foreign investment the country receives.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Semarang City made a similar agreement in 2023. As of April 2024, 120 inspectorate offices nationwide have access to the system, up from 35 in 2023. “We In 2023, they reported four cases worth around US$800,000 (IDR13 billion) for further investigation by authorities. Opentender currently features data on more than 4.6

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Scottish Government Procurement

MAY 9, 2024

Fife Council have also updated their Scheme of Tender Procedures which are now directly aligned to the PPSfS, and in particular SMEs, Third Sector and Supported Businesses with content included around support for these areas with additional focus on local spend.

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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. Further information on this framework is available here.

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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. in 2020 to 96% in 2023. in 2020 to 59.7%

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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 work also informed new legislation that will require 20% of the value of contracts to be awarded to MSMEs, including through subcontracting.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Ahead of Scot Climate Week 2023 , we welcome a guest blog from the Peatland ACTION project to tell us about the variety of supply chain opportunities and wider peatland restoration work. More will follow later in September 2023. More will follow later in September 2023.

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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. Further information on this framework is available here.

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Public Contracting Institute

JANUARY 3, 2024

Claims August 17, 2023). Platinum however billed the government pursuant to standard closed van trailers rather than the flatbeds listed in the tenders. million based on the difference between tenders associated with the equipment type ordered and that which was provided.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These agreements take on even greater importance under the Procurement Act 2023, with greater emphasis on transparency, competition and sustainability. These agreements define terms, conditions and price for goods and services and allow authorities to procure without having to re-run lengthy tender processes.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2019, the then Pakatan Harapan (PH) Government introduced the National Anti-Corruption Plan 2019-2023 (NACP), a comprehensive five-year roadmap aimed to combat corruption and address critical governance challenges. Among the reform areas identified was the country’s public procurement system.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

With a 2+ year delay, details for the creation of the public procurement data space ( PPDS ) were disclosed by the European Commission on 16 March 2023 in the PPDS Communication. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

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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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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In 2023 alone, this included reforms in national legislation, international instruments, and institutional rules. On the national legislation front, the flagship reform is the enactment in June 2023 of the new Saudi Civil Transactions Law , which came into force on 16 December 2023.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So far, AI has already obtained credible influence in the way public procurement tenders can be drafted and submitted. The adjudicators or evaluators of a tender act as both gatekeepers on behalf of the tendering process. Such an inflexible state of affairs may do well in the bulk of tendering processes. IF A, THEN B.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This is particularly problematic for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), which often need more resources to participate in complex, bureaucratic tender processes dominated by a few more prominent competitors. As a result, the UK public sector may be missing out on SMEs’ innovation and flexibility.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Businesses must understand the key differences between the public and private procurement methods, regulations, and goals when c onsidering tender opportunities in either sector. Furthermore, private businesses have more flexibility in pursuing informal tendering procedures or direct negotiation with suppliers.

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BLP

JULY 20, 2023

Through the official letter MH-DCoP-OF-0458-2023 of the Public Procurement Directorate of the Ministry of Finance, an interpretation has been made of Article 44 of the Regulations to the new Public Procurement Law regarding the obligation of the Administration to conduc t market research.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This Scot Climate Week 2023 , we welcome a Peatland ACTION case study on how local contractors used a public procurement opportunity to take on a challenging first project and then go on to found a specialist business in peatland restoration.

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ivalua

JANUARY 8, 2023

The German Supply Chain Act, or Lieferkettengesetz, is a new piece of legislation that came into effect January 2023 with an extended remit from January 1, 2024. Being banned from public tenders for up to three years . What Lieferkettengesetz Means for Procurement? By Jan-Hendrik Sohn. Fines of up to €8 million .

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 22, 2024

They typically focus primarily on the pre-tendering and tendering phases, leaving a gap in guidance for the post-award phase. Introduction The procurement legal frameworks, guidelines, and manuals in many countries, especially in developing nations, often lack comprehensive policies and procedures for contract administration.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. It covers everything from tendering and bidding to contract management. Invitation To Tender What does ITT mean in procurement? P-R Procurement Act 2023 The Procurement Act 2023 is the UKs new law replacing older public procurement rules.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To tackle this problem, the country has proposed wide-ranging legislation , including an anti-corruption package with measures to standardize the operations of Mongolia’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and ensure they follow consistent rules throughout processes like tendering and procurement, among others.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. Often prices fall, says Diegues, when a government only holds an annual tender and the products are ordered in large volumes. “As

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