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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024.

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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

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Improving public procurement, which accounts for one in every three dollars spent by governments, is one of the core ways countries can do more with the same – or less. How can the Bank attract a wider diversity of suppliers, to optimise value for money and stimulate economic opportunity?

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Was UK’s Covid PPE procurement even worse than we thought? New analysis raises more red flags

Open Contracting Partnership

Here is an example from BuyandSellCanada of a well-structured, orderly process with clear supplier specification of what PPE was needed. Here is Colombia setting up an open framework to better connect buyers and sellers in an orderly and transparent manner. The market is disrupted, buyers and suppliers urgently need to connect.

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GSA’s commercial platforms program to grow by five providers

Federal News Network

They also put competitive pressure on the Schedules program to improve its administrative efficiency, which is a positive result that will help buyers and sellers in the market.” GSA also says total orders also increased to 305,000 from 105,000 in 2022, and 52% of all users were repeat buyers and agencies spent on average between $250-$350.

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Creating Tail Spend ROI Through an Improved Buyer Experience

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To summarize, tail spend is commonly labeled as the money a company spends on purchases that accounts for roughly 80% of total transactions, making up about 20% of the company’s spend by volume. Lack of control or visibility into what is being spent and with which suppliers. Which supplier it was purchased from; and .

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HHS Needs Small Business Government Contractors and Industry Partners

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Register in the HHS Vendor Supplier Portal to rise above your competition. If federal buyers find enough qualified businesses in their own directory, they won't look anywhere else! You need to get inside HHS!

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5 Steps Towards Modernizing Supplier Management

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When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. Organizations are increasingly dependent on suppliers to successfully bring innovative goods and services to market on time, improve ESG performance, and meet other objectives. Gain control of your supplier data.