VWV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Act was initially set to go live on 28 October 2024, but this has now been delayed to 24 February 2025. Changes to the process for providing feedback on tenders and the standstill period. The current procurement rules will remain in effect until 23 February 2025 and will apply to procurements commenced before this date.

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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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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. One option may be to try and make use of the delay by carrying out market engagement and getting all the tender documents ready to go for 24 February.

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VWV

AUGUST 20, 2024

For example, payment compliance notices will come into force on the go-live date whereas pipeline notices will not need to be published until April 2025. The guidance note also covers notices. Direct Award - Whilst there are some new grounds for direct awards, the main changes relate to the process.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Further details can be found here: Procurement – media planning buying and associated services: guidance – gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Recruitment Ads and Pins The renewal process for Recruitment Ads and Pins is underway with tender submissions being evaluated. Work on the re-let has commenced and currently it is out to Tender.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This is now recognised as vital to the public sector with the government stating that one-third of all procurement pounds must go to SMEs by 2025. Boroughs need guidance on innovative procurement practices and making tenders be more SME-friendly. However, making tenders more SME-friendly aren’t the final piece of the puzzle.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We recently awarded a new gas framework to begin when the current framework expires in March 2025. We will be running a tender later in the year, and there is plenty of opportunity for buyers and suppliers to input into the specification. The framework is used across the Scottish public sector, generating impressive savings of £7.5

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

In Rwanda, it helped that e-GP was included in a top policy priority seeking to make all government business electronic by 2025. Procurement does not start from the publication of tenders. There was a clear political agenda to digitize the process. We had a committee of key institutions,” says Uwingeneye. “We

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A long-term action plan was also created, with milestones set for strengthening the legal mandate for green procurement, further professionalizing the process, and introducing new tools into the e-procurement system that will facilitate greener procurement choices by 2025. We tried to meet markets where they were.

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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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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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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).

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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

AUGUST 14, 2023

Once the project is selected for funding, it can be tracked through the full implementation pipeline: developing procurement needs, tendering, choosing suppliers, construction, and auditing. We estimate the Project Office will need $2 million a year in support in 2024 and 2025 and then around $1 million a year after that.

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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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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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VWV

JANUARY 27, 2025

Ensure you know what notices need to be published on Find a Tender and when. Key dates to watch out for: Late January 2025: Familiarise yourself with the new look Find a Tender services and the Central Digital Platform. 24 February 2025: The Act goes live.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 31, 2025

In an attempt to further fortify its position as a leading arbitral institution, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre ( SIAC ) has introduced the 7th Edition of the Arbitration Rules of the SIAC ( Rules ), which came into effect on 1 January 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. Ideally, information about planned procurement procedures should be announced in the year before the project begins.

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VWV

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Cabinet Office has prepared guidance on a range of subjects including competitive tendering procedures, exclusions and debarment and remedies Keep up to date with VWV's short and expert blogs There are no changes to the current procurement thresholds which will remain in force until 31 December 2025.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In the more recent Judgment of 23 January 2025 in Neos v Ryanair (C490/23 P, EU:C:2025:32 ), the ECJ was confronted with arguments on whether the European Commission was obliged to explicitly assess (and provide reasons for its views on) the compatibility of a State aid measure with Art 56 TFEU.

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