Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. The system works by collecting public procurement data and structuring it in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.

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How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

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. An easy way to help those bidders is to use an automated bid writer to help them write their first draft. says a buyer.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

With the help of automated analytical tools, the agency has been able to focus its prevention and control efforts on transactions with the highest risk, and in turn, harness the power of data to institutionalize better purchasing practices among government entities that conduct procurement through the Mercado Publico online platform.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

AUGUST 24, 2021

The datasets republish structured data gathered from official source websites and also contain corruption risk indicators developed by the research team. This methodology is based on large-scale datasets of procurement tenders and contracts collected from official government publication portals or data repositories.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. to as little as 1.8%, depending on the calculation method and source data.

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VWV

AUGUST 20, 2024

For example, assessment summaries must be provided before the contract award notice is published and unsuccessful bidders will receive assessment summaries for both their tender and the successful bidder. Invalid Input Send my message

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So far, AI has already obtained credible influence in the way public procurement tenders can be drafted and submitted. The adjudicators or evaluators of a tender act as both gatekeepers on behalf of the tendering process. Such an inflexible state of affairs may do well in the bulk of tendering processes. IF A, THEN B.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

While these frameworks simplify procurement and reduce administrative burdens, their extensive use has inadvertently limited the scope of competition, reducing the pool of prospective bidders and leaving new suppliers unable to access opportunities. Reducing administrative burdens for SMEs is another vital step in levelling the playing field.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Inefficiencies, data duplication, and reduced transparency often result. Technical infrastructure and SaaS-based e-GP systems Technical infrastructure, including cloud policies and data centers, plays a significant role in successful e-GP implementation.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

They were selected based on the implementation of recent open contracting reforms and the availability of procurement data for both before and after the reforms. By implication, each of these cases represent a data rich environment to start with.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But when it comes to public procurement, they represent less than 5% of vendors participating in the system in the last 3 years, according to official data. Instead, we found that involving entrepreneurs’ knowledge could prevent issues in specific tender processes. And how could we reach those entrepreneurs?

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

Contracts Finder ​ ​ The NAO found that Central Government does not take advantage of the data it collects to understand more about competition and gain further benefits. The expected level of single bidders within UK government’s major markets was not assessed.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The urgent need to stem these ills led to the first wave of reforms that saw an overhaul of colonial era and post-independence procurement structures in the form of Tender Boards that were characterized by centralized procurement, lack of transparency, outdated legal framework and weak dispute management mechanisms.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The aim of the platform is to support data-driven procurement decisions. We are keen to promote the benefits of the platform across more public bodies and to get everyone’s data on board, so please get in touch if you would like to find out more. The guidance focuses on the use of AI for bidders.

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The Procurement School

MAY 27, 2024

Collective agreements offer some predictability, but lump sum tendered bids often must guess the future and buffer to avoid loss. Bidders add money to bids to avoid potential losses. It is substantiated and grounded by historical data combined with the reality, context, and specific circumstances of the project being delivered.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

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. Each of the 16 bidders received a contract for a total of $105,000.

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Tracker Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2024

Introduction to Healthcare Tenders In today’s competitive healthcare environment, the ability to win and obtain large contracts through health tenders is crucial to the development of the industry. Understanding Health Tenders UK What Are Health Tenders?

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In an effort to improve the success rate of public complaints, ICW has devised a six-step process for identifying potential irregularities in procurement using a data-driven red flagging system and other sources.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In time for this year’s Africa Public Procurement Network conference, hosted by Rwanda’s Public Procurement Authority (RPPA), the agency has developed a new open contracting portal that allows anyone to access data on government contracts dating back to 2016. million).

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It is mostly impossible to manage an award procedure following two discrete sets of rules depending on who is the tenderer. Some data – admittedly old data – indicates that in some Member States remedies do not apply to contracts below the thresholds or excluded contracts (see here ). 46 and 47).

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