Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Creating a dynamic marketplace that promotes transparency of pricing, services and supply contracts, allows suppliers to continually update their offerings and prices and enables public sector buyers easier access to the latest technology and services. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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Select GCR

MARCH 4, 2025

This article simplifies the process: understanding the basics, finding the right opportunities, preparing your business, and crafting winning bids. Agencies may even provide a stronger chance of procuring a contract when bidding to help small businesses meet their targets. How do I get government contracts?

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Spot Bids: Promoting this as an option to employees will help ensure that Procurement gets involved but also that employees are not waiting for a long sourcing event to take place, its done in a matter of days. The post Creating Tail Spend ROI Through an Improved Buyer Experience appeared first on Ivalua. We’re here to help.

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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 According to the Competitive Bidding Law of Canada, we can only accept compliant bids. Had the Director accepted the late bid, their reputation would be tarnished forever. I cannot” replied the Director. “Why

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Procureware

JANUARY 22, 2018

When considering all steps from start to finish, the administrative time for a bid is typically reduced by an impressive 50 to 70 percent! One of the most common questions I hear from procurement staff during implementation is, “how should the supplier bid responses be structured?” My answer is always “yes.”

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American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

City and county governments are often key buyers of landscape equipment and supplies, says Keith McGinty , director of bids and government accounts at SiteOne Landscape Supply , a firm that sells soil maintenance products, irrigation, lighting, nursery products, tools, equipment, safety items and hardscapes in addition to landscape supplies.

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Federal News Network

MARCH 27, 2024

Overstock Government decided not to bid on the next generation platform, sources say. They also put competitive pressure on the Schedules program to improve its administrative efficiency, which is a positive result that will help buyers and sellers in the market.”

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The suggestions apply to all segments of competitive bidding, including the SME segments of Supplier Diversity, Indigenous and Social Procurement. Seasoned practitioners in public procurement can be jaded from situations that have gone wrong, and it is common for inexperienced public buyers to experience risk aversion and fear of the unknown.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 4, 2025

Traditional procurement approaches prioritised lowest price, which led to unintended consequences like accepting bids of lower quality, a lesser performance record or that did not adequately allow buyers to consider equity, sustainability or socio-economic objectives like creating local jobs.

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How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

I am reading a leaflet for a contract management portal when I overhear a conversation between a buyer and a supplier. “I I suppose at this rate, you could just get AI to write all your bids for you?” says a buyer. AI might be fast, but buyers cannot rely on it to be a subject matter expert.

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Select GCR

MAY 7, 2024

This no-nonsense guide walks you through the contracting process, from initial eligibility to bidding, and ultimately enables your small business to win contracts available every fiscal year. Registering your business with SAM (System for Award Management) is a prerequisite to start bidding for contracts. You’re in the right place!

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Select GCR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

GSA Schedules, also known as Multiple Award Schedules (MAS), provide pre-negotiated prices for millions of commercial products and services, making procurement more efficient for federal, state, and local government buyers. Ensuring the proposal is clear, concise, and error-free is fundamental to its success.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Or how could buyers minimize the very real risk of greenwashing?

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society. in 2020 to 59.7%

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

This made it simpler for specialists to bid for government work and increased government access to technology innovators. The simplified procurement process worked for tech and focused on outcomes, so the government became a knowledgeable buyer of technology. The frameworks they developed became the GOV.UK Digital Marketplace.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

Oversees all City procurement processing, monitoring, bids, solicitations, addenda, administration, clarifications, modification, compliance, negotiations, changing conditions, coordination of legal review, terminations, and purchase orders. Three (3) years supervisory experience. Experience with budgeting preferred.

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Procureware

JUNE 28, 2018

Two-Way Messaging is a new feature that lets buyers interact with vendors via email and have all the communications logged in ProcureWare. The communications are automatically associated to the individual vendor, their company, and the relevant bid or contract.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2024

Due to frequent updates, alerts on bids, and comprehensive information about projects, these platforms help identify new opportunities quickly. The UK’s premier tendering portals are vital aids for companies wanting to participate in the competitive bid forums. Tailor each bid to a specific tender Do not send general submissions.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Tracker Intelligence platform helps organisations identify and bid for tenders in a wide range of sectors. The platform provides information on contracts available for bidding, buyer behaviour tracking, and market data to facilitate the tendering process.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In many cases, our cooperative contracts qualify in most jurisdictions as competitively bid and awarded, making them eligible for expedited (or simplified) acquisitions processes. Mitchell believes that cooperative contracts can save time for agencies. “In

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GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I fell in love with their mission to arm buyers and sellers in the public sector with intelligence, enabling them to be more proactive and competitive in their markets and in their spending. For example, we are cross-referencing our database of millions of hours of public meetings with our vast library of Bids & RFPs.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2024

Additionally, you can address specific needs by directly responding to any pain points the buyer has highlighted. Demonstrate Value Next, make sure to clearly articulate a potential solution that will benefit that buyer. Not Asking For Feedback Be proactive with asking for feedback from private sector buyers.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Our tight matching estimations suggest that the reform is effective in the targeted area: it decreases corruption risks due to low competition (the share of single bidding falls from 22% to18%).

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A multi supplier framework, structured into Lots where suppliers can bid for multiple sections based on their qualifications, brings flexibility and competition, making it advantageous for newer businesses. In addition, these agreements can be made more valuable by encouraging innovation with flexible terms and mechanisms for regular reviews.

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Tracker Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

It shows your business has excelled in the competitive bidding process. Public Sector Frameworks Do you want to access the benefits of public sector contracting without the lengthy bidding process? Government procurement frameworks allow buyers to select suppliers and set terms and conditions for a set period of time.

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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. One key recommendation was to require government buyers to pay advances to MSME suppliers at 20% of the full contract value.

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Select GCR

OCTOBER 10, 2023

So, when they need a janitor, landscaper, Educational trainer, IT professional for example – they post a solicitation for that work description and then award a contract to a company that submitted a bid. Now on the other hand, businesses must register their business with the Gov so they can be seen by these buyers.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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. And if my bid comes in second, how much more expensive am I than the first bid that won the contract?´,” Diegues says.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

New strategies included implementing an electronic bidding platform, piloting approaches to vendor outreach for high-priority purchases, and incorporating bonus point questions for sustainability and equity in all their requests for proposals (RFPs). Implementing an e-bidding procurement system was core to this effort.

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GovSpend

APRIL 5, 2023

These solicitations can take the form of requests for proposals (RFPs), requests for quotes (RFQs), or invitations to bid (ITBs). Submission of bids: Businesses can submit bids in response to solicitations, outlining their proposed solutions and pricing.

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GovSpend

APRIL 5, 2023

These solicitations can take the form of requests for proposals (RFPs), requests for quotes (RFQs), or invitations to bid (ITBs). Submission of bids: Businesses can submit bids in response to solicitations, outlining their proposed solutions and pricing.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Government expenditure through public procurement is essential since it ensures that there are contracts available to be bid in a fair, open, and competitive manner. The best bid is not always the cheapestit is the one offering the highest overall benefit considering durability, innovation, and economic impact.

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Learn the ins and outs of maintaining compliance, crafting a competitive bid, and positioning your business for growth through federal opportunities, all through the lens of SAM’s pivotal role in government procurement. Bidding and Proposal Submission Submitting competitive bids and proposals is a critical step in securing federal contracts.

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GovCon Chamber of Commerce

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

RFIs and Sources Sought responses are a rare opportunity for your company to send your marketing message directly to the right federal buyer. Your response introduces you to the buyer and showcases your domain expertise or domain authority on a particular topic. You might not know their names at this point.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Knowing that intelligence benefits all participants in the sales process, GovSpend aims to put procurement data in the hands of both buyers and sellers, enabling them to have smarter, more productive purchasing conversations.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

the quantity and depth of new information) and whether new information is actionable for key stakeholders such as bidding firms; and (ii) the nature of demand for transparency, that is the existence of data users who are willing and able to act upon the information published. However, the average number of received bids increases by 0.5

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Procureware

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This is important because the different contracting methods influence how buyers will select contractors. Design Bid Build (DBB) : DBB is the traditional three-phased contracting method for construction projects. Design Bid Build (DBB) : DBB is the traditional three-phased contracting method for construction projects.

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