Tracker Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Find a Tender Service: Navigating UK Public Contracts The area of public sector tenders in the United Kingdom is complex but filled with opportunities. Such businesses can enter this area with the perfect platform offered by Tracker’s Find a Tender Service.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

What is PCS-Tender? PCS-Tender is the national eTendering system funded by the Scottish Government. The system is a secure and efficient way for Buyers and Suppliers to manage tender exercises online. Where can I find PCS-Tender User Guides? The PCS-Tender Supplier Guides have been updated. appeared first on.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

They are encouraging dialogue about who bought what from whom to improve visibility and accountability over the spending and the improved outcomes seen in the examples provided. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 4, 2024

Minor deviations are a subtle area that requires clear guidelines to ensure fairness and transparency.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 31, 2025

Its hugely positive that 20 Italian civil society organizations came together as a coalition to push for transparency and accountability in the delivery of the Games. When we launched the campaign in May 2024, we identified a lack of accessible, consolidated data on Olympic-related projects. Materials are available here.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

Concerns were raised over suspicious tendering practices such as short bidding periods, overly rigid specifications, and potential collusion. Open data provides the foundation for these other elements to thrive, enabling citizens, journalists, and authorities to act as watchdogs and hold those in power accountable.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

Working with the Ukrainian government, especially the Ministry and Agency for Restoration as well as our friends in the RISE Ukraine Coalition , we were delighted to unveil the demo version of a Digital Reconstruction Ecosystem for Accountable Management (DREAM) in June, to lead on making the reconstruction digitally coordinated and accountable.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Results : The Clarity App is building trust among Ukrainian businesses that they can receive a fair decision for procurement appeals and fair competition without discrimination in tenders. Appeals are an important element of any procurement system, as they enable businesses to defend their rights to compete for and win tenders.

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Telles.eu

MAY 11, 2023

Second, an issue of accountability. Accountability Tirole looks into accountability in various parts of his paper, for example when talking about central banks and then expanding in more detail when looking into the problems that may occur from multi-factored missions. Third, incentives issues.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) is the measure for selecting the best out of the incoming bids based on factors that are related to the subject matter of the contract. It takes into account components like Cost, Quality, and Technicality of various bid proposals while deciding a contract award.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Open contracting, a globally recognized framework, advocates for transparency at every stage of the procurement lifecycle including planning, tendering, awarding, and contract management. But at the heart of this transformation lies the principle of transparency.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

“We want to hold government accountable. These SOPs will not only serve as guidance for the auditors on how to carry out their work effectively but also for citizens on how to hold government accountable,” said Wana Alamsyah from ICW. Opentender currently features data on more than 4.6

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2024

Numerous opportunities exist for businesses specialising in cleaning services to participate in railway tenders and cleaning contracts. Tracker Intelligence helps companies by providing the right knowledge and tools to find and win railway cleaning tenders. Tracker Intelligence helps to make this process simpler.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A series of recent scandals shows just how little accountability there is. To hold leaders to account, we must continue to provide powerful tools that connect different datasets and provide a holistic view. As data enthusiasts, we believe that the data itself should reveal the truth when it is used effectively.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Businesses must understand the key differences between the public and private procurement methods, regulations, and goals when c onsidering tender opportunities in either sector. Furthermore, private businesses have more flexibility in pursuing informal tendering procedures or direct negotiation with suppliers.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

If public sector bodies and organisations follow clear procurement regulations, they can help uphold high standards of accountability, while still achieving the best results for the general public. How Transparency is Ensured in Procurement Transparency is achieved through open contract notices, public tenders, and clear evaluation criteria.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 5, 2024

We recently published a blog post that provides a gentle introduction to AI in procurement, illustrating the thinking and work that needs to go into even relatively straightforward processes such as comparing green criteria for public contracts against real tender notices.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 22, 2024

They typically focus primarily on the pre-tendering and tendering phases, leaving a gap in guidance for the post-award phase. Involving the entity benefiting from the contract in its administration aligns responsibility with performance proximity, which enhances oversight and accountability.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Integrity All tender documents must have clear and dependable information free of bias. Accountability Businesses, contractors, and government organisations should have a way to hold each other accountable for their decisions and actions. ” A tender refers o the actual contract.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

By focusing on social value, governments demonstrate accountability and purpose. Together, these governance measures ensure that public sector buyers uphold the principles of fairness, ethics, and accountability. Working with SMEs and local businesses enhances their ability to seek tenders, thus fostering inclusiveness and innovation.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So far, AI has already obtained credible influence in the way public procurement tenders can be drafted and submitted. The adjudicators or evaluators of a tender act as both gatekeepers on behalf of the tendering process. Such an inflexible state of affairs may do well in the bulk of tendering processes. IF A, THEN B.

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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. If a bid is incorrectly evaluated, the buyer can hardly hold the AI response generator accountable. says a buyer.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These agreements define terms, conditions and price for goods and services and allow authorities to procure without having to re-run lengthy tender processes. Impact of the Procurement Act 2023 on Framework Agreements New regulations included in the Procurement Act 2023 seek to boost public procurement’s transparency and accountability.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

In India, according to the Ministry of Finance General Financial Rules (2017), all procuring authorities are responsible and accountable for ensuring transparency, fairness, equality, competition, and appeal rights in contracting. Collect information on more details of the tender process and in standardised formats (e.g.,

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VWV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Changes to the process for providing feedback on tenders and the standstill period. As part of the reforms, the current Find a Tender system will be improved to create a Central Digital Platform. Introduction of a new debarment list and extending the grounds of exclusion for suppliers to connected parties and key sub-contractors.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

They also have to change private and public tender, spend analysis coordination, and how to approach market leads. It was hard to imagine a world where accountants and project managers would work in their pyjamas from the comfort of their home offices. However, potential contracts that go out to tender are seeing slower processing.

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ivalua

JANUARY 8, 2023

The Act is designed to protect against the following, holding organizations accountable all activity that exists within their supply chain operations: Child labor, forced labor, any form of slavery. Being banned from public tenders for up to three years . Discrimination. Withholding an adequate wage. Fines of up to €8 million .

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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. The variation is mostly driven by the market itself.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

Key elements of the proposal In a nutshell, the proposal seeks to debunk tendering as the sole (or rather, primary, for there are exceptions in reg.32 Additional, clear (and restrictive) criteria supporting a decision not to use competitive tendering seem necessary. Rolling out contracts.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Life-Cycle Cost One “green procurement” strategy is to take the full life-cycle costs of a product – including, potentially, its costs to the broader society due to greenhouse gas emissions – into account when assessing the product for award. the environmental characteristics of the subject matter.”

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Public Contracting Institute

APRIL 1, 2024

This groundbreaking technology offers a new level of security, efficiency, and accountability, promising to revolutionize the way government agencies and public sector institutions conduct procurements. Such transparency is crucial for detecting and preventing fraud, thereby enhancing the integrity of public procurements.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability.

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European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2012

22 Similarly, the contracting authority is not under an obligation to provide an unsuccessful tenderer, upon written request from it, with a full copy of the evaluation report (see order of 20 September 2011 in Case C‑561/10 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission, paragraph 25).

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This keeps the process fair and accountable. Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. It covers everything from tendering and bidding to contract management. Invitation To Tender What does ITT mean in procurement? It helps reduce paperwork and speeds up the procedure.

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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. But governments’ digital transformation of their systems to better achieve these goals are at varying stages of development and maturity.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It is rather more plausible for the tender and contract to seek to bind the technology provider to practices and procedures seeking to ensure high levels of cyber security (by reference to some relevant metrics, where they are available), as well as protocols and mechanisms to anticipate and react to any (potential) security breaches.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Open data is often lauded as a magic pill for anti-corruption: reveal what’s going on, inform the public, and, presto, government will become more accountable. We have written elsewhere about the institutional and political challenges that can hinder the transparency –> accountability transformation.

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