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Private Sector Tender Platforms and Databases

Tracker Intelligence

Private sector tender platforms and tender databases are specialised digital systems that provide businesses with a wide range of access to tender opportunities within the private sector. These platforms then collate all industry tenders to enable companies to search, filter, and track relevant contracts quickly.

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Slowing Down Public Sector AI Adoption -- guest post by Saema Jaffer

How to Crack a Nut

This guest post by Saema Jaffer* explores the policy approaches that can be followed in the UK, and elsewhere, in relation to the use of AI in the writing and evaluation of tender documents. I am reading a leaflet for a contract management portal when I overhear a conversation between a buyer and a supplier. “I says a buyer.

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B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

Open Contracting Partnership

Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. Often prices fall, says Diegues, when a government only holds an annual tender and the products are ordered in large volumes. “As

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Vendors as partners: How Paraguay’s VIGIA provides a community to increase competitiveness and opportunity for SMEs

Open Contracting Partnership

To better understand the challenges small businesses face when bidding for public tenders, and complementary to its Lift impact accelerator project, the Open Contracting Partnership engaged in conversations with entrepreneurs, public officials, and civil society actors with a stake in improving the public procurement system.

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Seven Steps To More Transparent Sourcing

Procureware

Vancouver also provides a budget estimate and a bidders list. Detailed description of public bid opportunity Step 2: Provide Online Vendor Registration Publishing bid or tender solicitations is a great first step to improve transparency; today, however, vendors expect more. An interactive audit log makes all details easily accessible.

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Buying local, inclusive and green: How Iowa’s capital, Des Moines, is living its values through better procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Their process wasn’t friendly to new vendors, leading to low levels of competition and bidder diversity, and they didn’t have good data to inform further improvements. The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities. Moreover, of the 16 bidders, 82% were based in Des Moines, and 94% were local to Iowa.

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Evaluate the Options: Vendor Networks

Procureware

Among them are aggregators that bring together buyers and sellers. They host requests for bids and tenders from buyers and allow vendors to submit bids to multiple organizations. In this article we’ll explore the available options and show the advantages and disadvantages of each.