Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

Sustainability needs to be seen as a wider issue, not just green purchasing and the environment, but also supporting women businesses and local economic development. In Rwanda, it helped that e-GP was included in a top policy priority seeking to make all government business electronic by 2025. I’ve seen this argument used often.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 80

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Collaborative Framework for the provision of Postal Services A Category A (National) dual-lot, dual-supplier framework for the provision of Postal Services commenced on 1 July 2021 for a maximum period of 4 years to 30 June 2025. Further information on this framework can be found here. Work on a re-let is due to commence imminently.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The city government of Klaipeda runs the Dancer bus service through a comprehensive, 10-year lease agreement that is the first purchase of its kind in the country, a result of Lithuania’s shift to using green criteria for public contracts. In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria.

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Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Collaborative Framework for the provision of Postal Services A Category A (National) dual-lot, dual-supplier framework for the provision of Postal Services commenced on 1 July 2021 for a maximum period of 4 years to 30 June 2025. Further information on this framework can be found here. Work on a re-let is due to commence imminently.

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Collaboration Framework Agreement Supplier Purchasing 40

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As part of its AI Action Plan , New York City has announced that it is starting work to develop its own model clauses for AI procurement (to be completed in 2025). and which in a procurement context would have been dealt with pre-contract, eg in the context of technical specifications and/or tender evaluation).

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

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]. As of 2025, the system could establish links with additional external data sources ’ (at 2). However, whether they will be onboarded into PPDS as enthusiastic members seems less likely.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Section 811 requires development and implementation of a streamlined requirements development process, to improve alignment with modern technologies and reduce time to deliver capabilities, by October 1, 2025. The prize competition must be established within 270 days of enactment, and expires on December 31, 2025.

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

For example, if the government decides to conduct a procurement in early 2025, the general plan for the project must have been announced in at least the last quarter of 2024. Identify Similar Procurements The third step is to search for similar purchases through opentender.net (or by accessing the official e-procurement platform directly).

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