Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2025

In the UK, public procurement is essential to providing high-quality public services. Companies wishing to work with public sector organisations must know who the key players in public procurement are. These contracting authorities handle high value defence contracts and work with strategic suppliers.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. Kazakhstan has radically reformed legislation governing general public procurement, one of the highest risk sectors, but enforcement has been mixed.

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Telles.eu

JULY 3, 2023

The email argued that the maintenance shed which is part of the contract object would be used for the manufacturing of the trains and as such constitute illegal state aid. A couple of caveats here though: I'm a lot less comfortable discussing state aid than I am public procurement since my expertise is in the latter.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. Results : Levels of green procurement uptake across Lithuanian public institutions have increased to 94% by value and 93% by total procedures as of 1 December 2023.

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VWV

JUNE 15, 2021

The National Procurement Policy Statement this month applies to all contracting authorities who are subject to the procurement rules. Whilst broadly welcomed it raises a number of practical challenges for local authorities and the wider public sector. What Does the National Procurement Policy Statement Say?

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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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Telles.eu

JUNE 14, 2023

It was announced yesterday that the Portuguese train company (CP) chose a consortium headed by Alstom as the preferred bidder for its first major train procurement contract in many decades. The procurement procedure was launched in December 2021 and adopted a MEAT approach for the award criteria.

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European Law: Public Procurement

MAY 11, 2012

Can public authorities procure fair trade products, or are they debarred from specifically referring to the fair trade qualities of those products under the public procurement directive (directive 2004/18/EC)? Technical specifications or contract performance conditions? Netherlands.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this post as part of our series exploring the impact of AI on public procurement , we’ll outline our approach and lessons learned. But the EU’s procurement notices use the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV), not these product groups, so we had to match the product groups to CPV codes (see our spreadsheet ).

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Mercell

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Press release Utrecht & Sofia December 15, 2017 Dutch software company Negometrix to develop the national procurement system for all Bulgarian Public Entities On December 15, 2017 Negometrix as part of a consortium, signed a contract with the Public Procurement Agency of the Republic of Bulgaria.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

Publication of below-the-threshold tenders is voluntary. About 55% of the tenders visible on the TenderNed platform are published from a dedicated TenderNed application, which contracting authorities can use to manage all steps of the tendering process. The rest come from commercial applications. Transparency is key.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

Opportunity #4: Green Procurement Public procurement accounts for about 20 percent of total government spending in the region, so the contribution of green procurement policies and management to commitments under the Paris Agreement is potentially high.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The role of competition in public procurement regulation continues to be debated. Bringing together voices representing a wide range of views, this webinar will explore these issues and provide a space for reflective discussion on competition and public procurement. Registration here.

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