Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

The average number of bidders per lot rose from 3.16 According to data from the public procurement business intelligence (BI) module of Kazakhstan , the share of single-source purchases in the general government procurement market has steadily declined from 57% in 2021 to 23.5% The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0

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Procurement Public Procurement Tender E-procurement 52

Bonfire

MARCH 28, 2023

Mitigating risk is one of the most important responsibilities an organization’s finance leader has. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the risks inherent in public sector procurement and why finance leaders should care. Rogue purchases occur because nobody wants to work with procurement.

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Finance Procurement Evaluation Bidder 52

The Procurement School

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Author: Helen Doucette “Accept the bid from ABC Company” said the VP of Finance to the Director of Procurement. “I To accept the bid would put the organization at risk of being sued by all the other 6 compliant bidders for the value of this contract of $9 million plus up to 2 years of lost profit”, the Director replied.

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Ethics Import Procurement Public Procurement 98

SmallGovCon

APRIL 19, 2024

The DDC then noted that, basically, CWS was using the “only tax returns” argument to justify the fact that they violated the provision that “reimbursements for purchases a contractor makes at a customer’s request” may not be excluded from receipts. The DDC then further explained how CWS’ position does not make sense.

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Bidding Bidder Government Contracts Finance 105

Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Long before you make a purchase decision, you must create the right structure for vendor relationships with your procurement organization. Some are financed through subscription fees paid by vendors, a model that some procurement experts feel leads to lower supplier quality.

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Evaluation Networking E-procurement Supplier 40

Procureware

DECEMBER 29, 2017

My favorite new features for 2017 include: • API • Approval workflows • Certifications • Connected bid events • Invite unregistered bidders • My Dashboard • PDF reports • Ranked reverse auction • Supplier view of contracts API Long before ProcureWare was developed, we envisioned an application that would easily connect to other business systems.

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Bidder Supplier Bidding Buyers 40

The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These reactions can lead to strict risk management and purchasing policies with overly complicated bid documents and onerous requirements that are imposing on potential SME bidders. Specific outcomes provide clear objectives for the bidder to achieve for the service or product delivery.

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Participation Procurement Strategies Procurement Buyers 52