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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (IV - vehicles)

Telles.eu

After parts I , II and III we finally reach part IV on the purchase or leasing of vehicles (contract type - 5) For these, the Annex establishes four different award criteria and two contract performance clauses/technical specifications, with issues to be found on both, mostly due to the non-technology neutral approach to the drafting.

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The Public Procurement Glossary

Tracker Intelligence

Value: Smart Spending, Not Just Cheap Deals It’s not just about the lowest priceit’s about quality, long-term savings, and corporate social responsibility. The best choice isnt just about priceits about quality, timelines, and reliability. It outlines pricing, service quality and other key details.

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In Kazakhstan, opening up procurement boosts public oversight and prevents millions in wasteful spending

Open Contracting Partnership

The government has promoted public participation in procurement monitoring, which is vital to combating corruption and improving efficiency, but few independent civil society organizations and individuals had the information, skills and influence to track contracting effectively. Professionalizing procurement.

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Who Are the Key Players in Public Procurement?

Tracker Intelligence

In the UK, public procurement is essential to providing high-quality public services. To ensure that public sector procurement delivers high-quality public services, it promotes strategic procurement operations and supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

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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. In 2022, TenderNed also turned their attention to creating better quality data for external users and making it easily accessible for researchers, journalists, and agencies.

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Six opportunities to promote resilience and decarbonization through fiscal policy

Inter-American Development Bank

Given the magnitude of the resources required, there are three possible courses of action: redirecting existing resources towards new resilient and low-carbon investment priorities; improving the quality of investments; and achieving greater mobilization of public and private resources.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

In other jurisdictions, there is much greater variation in how green requirements are expressed, which might reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of the market. Simplify criteria: Green requirements do not need to be complicated sentences. At present, the low adoption of green criteria is the main barrier.