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Understanding the new Procurement Act 2023: What suppliers need to know - Part 2

VWV

Suppliers may remain on this list for up to 5 years and will be unable to bid for public contracts during that time. In practice, this is unlikely to have a significant impact on the award criteria. What changes will I see to the decision to award a contract?

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

In the general public procurement market (valued at around US$19 billion annually), direct awards have dropped from 81% of the value of all procedures in 2017 to 23.5% New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 on average in 2021 to 10.23 in 2021 to 4.2

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The Public Procurement Glossary

Tracker Intelligence

A contract notice makes sure everyone knows what’s up for grabs, who’s bidding, and how decisions are made. Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. Bid A bid is a proposal that potential suppliers submit in response to a public contract opportunity.

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Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

Telles.eu

The procurement procedure was launched in December 2021 and adopted a MEAT approach for the award criteria. This criterion was then further refined with sub-criteria and a 0-100 scaling system. In total, we're talking 117 new trains at a cost close to €800M.

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Did you use AI to write this tender? What? Just asking! -- Also, how will you use AI to deliver this contract?

How to Crack a Nut

It recognises that there ‘are potential benefits to suppliers using AI to develop their bids, enabling them to bid for a greater number of public contracts. While the AI PPN seems to try not to single out the use of generative AI as potentially problematic by equating it to the possible use of (human) bid writers, this is unconvincing.

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Striving for data excellence: How the Netherlands’ TenderNed is enabling procurement insights for government and public users

Open Contracting Partnership

In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. Besides core fields, TenderNed uses some of the recommended extensions as well, including lots and bid statistics and details.

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Who Are the Key Players in Public Procurement?

Tracker Intelligence

Suppliers can participate in competitive dialogue to bid for defence and security contracts within the UK public sector. Best Practices for Tendering Supplier’s main priorities should be to understand award criteria such as Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) and to prove social value.