How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After analysing procurement as a regulatory actor , a new draft chapter for my book project focuses on the procedural and substantive procurement tools that could be used for AI regulation by contract, to assess their suitability for the task. They are thus unlikely to operate as an adequate tool to support regulation by contract.

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Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

In the EU, the TED data was somewhat incomplete; for example, in 2022, about 75% of the 7,817 procurement notices contained technical criteria (the rest expressed these criteria in separate documents that would have needed to be downloaded from individual procurement authority’s websites), and only about 50% contained non-price award criteria.

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Procurement Public Procurement Green Public Procurement Electronics 61

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The media organization ProTenge, which exposed tenders to buy books and publish articles about the ex-President that were subsequently canceled. The e-procurement system generated savings worth 485 billion tenge (~US$1 billion) in 2021, (calculated by the Center as the difference between the budget and awarded value).

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 119