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

VWV

Connected persons include individuals who have significant influence or control over the supplier. 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? What would qualify as 'past poor performance' changed under the Act?

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Procurement tools for AI regulation by contract. Not the sharpest in the shed

How to Crack a Nut

Award criteria could generate (further) incentives for regulatory performance, perhaps beyond the minimum mandatory baseline. Relatedly, the difficulties in using award criteria to pursue regulatory goals stem from difficulties in the operationalisation of qualitative criteria in practice.

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

Open Contracting Partnership

They are also working on tools to help contracting authorities to analyze their own data, for example, to monitor the average lead time of their tenders, or decide which award criteria to use when preparing a tender. They used the data to address specific agencies, and posted about it on LinkedIn.

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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?

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This is information that will either relate to the technical specifications, award criteria or performance clauses (or all of them) and there is no meaningful way in which AI could be used to deliver the contract without this having an impact on the assessment and evaluation of the tender. 57(8)(i)(ii) PCR2015 and sch.7

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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.