How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

This guest post by Saema Jaffer* explores the policy approaches that can be followed in the UK, and elsewhere, in relation to the use of AI in the writing and evaluation of tender documents. AI EVALUATIONS I am absolutely eavesdropping at this point and think: “now there’s a terrible idea!” Was it simply the evaluation question?

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The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. In the above example success is measured by the bidder meeting the technical specifications, including on time delivery at or below the approved procurement value.

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The Procurement School

JANUARY 22, 2024

This is an indication of the level of transparency and accountability required by public procurement professionals. This includes clients, current vendors and unsuccessful bidders of previous similar procurements. The clearer the technical evaluation criteria the better the procurement outcome.

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The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This two-part series discusses the five steps of the procurement journey beginning with concept and development and continuing with posting, evaluation and award. However, the greatest overlap is the procurement life cycle or as some refer to it as the Procurement Journey.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. There was a three phase evaluation of proposals requiring offerors to submit a self scoring sheet that assigned points for offerors representations on experience and capabilities under various criteria identified in the solicitation. And proposals were originally due on Aug.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In a previous article , we analyzed what made protests successful at the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) in Fiscal Year 2023 (“FY23”). United States, the Court found the agency’s decision to follow GAO’s recommendation to evaluate the protester’s proposal as though its key personnel was unavailable was irrational. [1]

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Boston Consulting Group Federal filed a complaint with the Government Accountability Office on Aug. One is there is still, even for us, a lot of confusion around how we evaluate joint ventures and small business teams who are coming together as primes as part of the source selection process. 28 over the terms of the solicitation.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Follow our advice on understanding tender technical requirements, exhibiting your expertise, avoiding common mistakes, and beating out rival bidders for these complex and demanding RFPs. You can configure your account with us to receive email notifications whenever new tenders are published in your sectors of expertise.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. Implementing e-GP requires training and capacity building for procuring entity officials and suppliers, auditors, evaluators, contract managers, and oversight bodies.

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The Procurement School

JULY 16, 2024

Compliance Including performance metrics and penalties for non-compliance promotes accountability and incentivizes suppliers to meet their obligations. The bidder has the opportunity and the obligation to review the proposed contract before submitting a bid.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The question disappointed healthcare contractors should ask is whether the agency acted unreasonably in its evaluation and selection of the awardee. If the answer is “yes”—or even “maybe”—healthcare companies may file a bid protest at the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) or the U.S. B-417836, 2020 CPD ¶ 47 ( Nov.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

Foes are vanquished, in this case Boston Consulting Group, losing its OASIS+ bid protest at the Government Accountability Office. Along with ePS-NDVSB, other bidders may have included Amazon and Granger. 21 and the Government Accountability Office has until April 1 to decide.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

19, 2023, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) held that the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) had made an impermissible conversion to competitive proposals (negotiated procurement) and sustained a protest. In Great Lakes Dredge & Drydock Co., LLC, B-421676.4,

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 21, 2015

Delay in Preparing Technical Specifications, Scope of Work or Terms of Reference Technical specifications , scope of work , and terms of reference are documents that describe what is needed, and should be clear enough to avoid confusing suppliers, contractors, service providers or the evaluation panel.

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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. According to the World Bank, public contracts account for 15% of global GDP. Was it 120, 150 or 200?

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

MARCH 22, 2022

Debriefings as a Tool for Bid Protests Bid protests are designed to protect the integrity of the procurement process and to allow disappointed bidders or offerors the opportunity to seek relief for an improper or flawed solicitation or contract award decision. Whether before the U.S.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

By clearly outlining how your business meets or exceeds the solicitation requirements, you can stand out among other bidders. Creating Your User Account Creating a user account on SAM.gov is a straightforward process that requires a professional email address and necessary documents.

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European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In its Judgment of 4 October 2012 in case C‑629/11 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission (ESP-ISEP) , the Court of Justice has issued another interesting decision on what should be considered sufficient debriefing of disappointed bidders in public procurement procedures. 1) (‘the Financial Regulation’).

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Procurement Notes

JULY 28, 2021

However, Agency Counsel is merely an advisor, does not write the CO’s performance evaluation, and, in any event, is a “no” factory, killjoy, four-eyed geek (at least that’s the stereotype). Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) or the U.S. Indeed, it is only the possibility of a bid protest that provokes adequate diligence.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 1, 2016

You manage public funds, are bound by an ethical code of conduct, and are accountable for what you do or fail to do when managing those funds. By integrating these principles into your work ethic, the results of your decisions will always be in line with the goal of public procurement.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

Third, there is the issue of the use of AI by contracting authorities, eg in relation to qualitative selection/exclusion, or evaluation/award decisions. That is the entire logic of the exclusion, qualitative selection and evaluation processes. The AI PPN covers aspects of. I will try to disentangle them here.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

​ Suppliers told the NAO that high bid costs, lack of confidence in evaluation and a lack of feedback had detered them from bidding on future Government contracts. The expected level of single bidders within UK government’s major markets was not assessed. The NAO supports Parliament in holding government to account.

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Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

That way, price adjustments can expediently be made, and contract performance can progress, without the contracting office and the contractor driving themselves mad over constant accounting drills. Jones was not, to stand aside and let the bidder be overwhelmed without a warning.” [134] 1) A FAR EPA clause cuts both ways. 8, 2014).

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European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As I said, this detailed debriefing standard imposes a very high burden on the contracting authorities and entities to provide very detailed reasons concerning every single criterion used in the evaluation of bids. a) of the contract notice.

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