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International Public Procurement Workshop 2025 – South Korea

Public Procurement Intl

From 5-7 March 2025, South Korea’s Public Procurement Service hosted an extraordinary conference featuring centralized purchasing agencies from over half of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member states, from North America, Europe and Asia.

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Enhancing Competition in Public Procurement: Lessons from the NAO Report

Tracker Intelligence

Future Trends and Policy Implications The Procurement Act 2023 , which will come into effect in February 2025, is poised to bring much-needed changes to the landscape of UK public sector procurement. Another emerging trend is the increasing use of digital marketplaces.

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How to Crack a Nut

As of 2025, the system could establish links with additional external data sources ’ (at 2). Given the undoubted value of harnessing procurement data, I sense that Member States will progress domestically, but primarily in specific settings such as that of their central purchasing bodies (see here ).