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Understanding Standard Bidding Documents in Public Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

Introduction This article is based on the review of standard bidding documents from several organizations including the World Bank , Millennium Challenge Corporation , the Public Procurement and Concession Commission of the Republic of Liberia , and Public Procurement Authority of Ghana.

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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. The system works by collecting public procurement data and structuring it in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format. “So

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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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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

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. Largely anchored on the UNCITRAL model law on public procurement , several countries abolished the centralized and inefficient tender boards.

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Paraguay’s procurement is open for small business

Open Contracting Partnership

Results: A year after the new procurement law was passed, the public procurement agency (DNCP) is using machine-learning to identify tenders that are most likely to be awarded to smaller businesses. and the total value awarded to MSMEs has remained steady. and the total value awarded to MSMEs has remained steady.

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

How to Crack a Nut

As the PPDS Communication stresses To unlock the full potential of public procurement, access to data and the ability to analyse it are essential. However, data from only 20% of all call for tenders as submitted by public buyers is available and searchable for analysis in one place [ie TED].