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10 success factors for implementing e-procurement system

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. I have had opportunities to support more than 60 countries across the globe in reviewing and advising their e-procurement (e-GP) initiatives.

E-procurement

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Around the world, governments are embracing “green procurement” – environmentally sustainable strategies to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution. A ” catalogue ” of green procurement strategies in the European Union and the United States, prepared by the European Commission and the Office of the U.S.

Procurement

Procurement Procurement Strategies E-procurement Bidder

Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It all starts with procurement. Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. Their comments are all published on the site, along with any responses from the procuring entity.

Collaboration

Collaboration E-procurement Tender Bidding

Chile’s procurement monitoring system now open to the public

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Chile’s public procurement agency, ChileCompra, created its “ Public Contracting Observatory ” service in 2012 to detect, prevent, and fix irregularities in government contracting procedures. But an amendment to the procurement law in December 2023 has paved the way to making the Observatory’s monitoring systems available to the public too.

Procurement

Procurement E-procurement Tender Purchasing

The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African Countries. Procurement was long seen as a clerical administrative function, rather than a strategic lever. This was not always the case.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency

Rwanda: A new open contracting portal to promote effective and inclusive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Kigali is the center of Africa’s public procurement community this week. 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.

Procurement

Procurement E-procurement Contract Public Procurement

Seven Steps To More Transparent Sourcing

Procureware

APRIL 12, 2019

Most procurement software projects are focused on efficiency; however, transparency needs to have equal attention. Trust is the cornerstone of procurement and transparency builds trust. Step 1: Post Solicitations Online Public notification of bid opportunities is a cornerstone of public procurement in most developed countries.

Transparency

Transparency Bidding Bidder Tender

Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

Enhancing the transparency of government in general and of public procurement processes in particular has been increasingly on the agenda of governments, civil societies and businesses as evidenced by initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership which has seen 70 OGP members making 189 open contracting commitments by March 2019 [1].

Bidder

Bidder Transparency Contract Public Procurement

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

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Challenge : The City of Des Moines in Iowa wanted to leverage procurement to improve equity and sustainability, but knew its current procurement processes and tools were insufficient. City employees are now able to collaborate on procurement more efficiently, and better plan and track their aspirations around equity and sustainability.

Procurement

Procurement Sustainability IT E-procurement

Evaluate the Options: Vendor Networks

Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

As a procurement manager, you know how important suppliers are to your organization. Long before you make a purchase decision, you must create the right structure for vendor relationships with your procurement organization. They host requests for bids and tenders from buyers and allow vendors to submit bids to multiple organizations.

Evaluation

Evaluation Networking E-procurement Supplier

GAO Bid Protests: Required Debriefings

Procurement Notes

JUNE 15, 2021

13] However, to be clear, the predicate for this being the case is that the procurement must rely upon the debriefing provisions of FAR Subpart 15.5—such 15] Not For All Procurements Just as important as knowing how to get a required debriefing is discerning what is not a required debriefing. 2305(b)(6)(A) and 41 U.S.C.

Bidding

Bidding E-procurement Procurement Negotiation

Adapting to a Changing World, not without Difficulties: Kolin (C-652/22) -- Guest post by Prof Roberto Caranta

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This Op-Ed is based on the assumption that public procurement law is not and cannot be insulated from these changes – veritable seismic shifts – and from recent policy and normative actions taken by EU institutions. The Council also called ‘for resuming discussions on the EU’s international procurement instrument’ (see here ).

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Tender Participation E-procurement

10 success factors for implementing e-procurement system

Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Chile’s procurement monitoring system now open to the public

The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Rwanda: A new open contracting portal to promote effective and inclusive procurement

Seven Steps To More Transparent Sourcing

Measuring the benefits of open contracting: Case studies on Mexico, Paraguay, and Slovakia

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

Evaluate the Options: Vendor Networks

GAO Bid Protests: Required Debriefings

Adapting to a Changing World, not without Difficulties: Kolin (C-652/22) -- Guest post by Prof Roberto Caranta

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