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DoD raises formal performance concerns on multibillion dollar moving contract

Federal News Network

It was predominantly related to those missed pickups, and those are driven by their ability to access [moving industry] capacity, Ken Brennan, TRANSCOMs director of acquisition, told reporters Thursday. How are you getting that capacity? That is an ongoing conversation we are talking daily to ensure that theyre building that capacity.

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DoD’s multi-billion dollar moving contract faces another legal challenge

Federal News Network

Over the past four and a half years, the Defense Department has faced at least four separate rounds of bid protest litigation challenging its multi-billion dollar overhaul of the militarys household goods moving system. As we move forward, we expect HomeSafe to have the capacity required to support the program. As of Dec.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. From a single source for failed competitive tenders, billion tenge 417.2

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Why the tender for 117 new trains in Portugal is illegal

Telles.eu

A potential economic operator that wanted to bid by using its manufacturing capacity based elsewhere in the EU for example could only compete in 85% of the total marks available since it would be classified as a zero on the manufacturing criterion. This is for two reasons.

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Free vs. Paid Tender Portals: Which is Right for Your Business?

Tracker Intelligence

New opportunities in the public sector contracts and procurement process begin with finding the right tender opportunities. Public sector procurement information and contracts are available through both free and paid tender search engines. Thousands of contract notices are posted every week on different platforms in the UK.

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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

Open Contracting Partnership

Currently, the Bank conducts procurement for these investment projects, putting pressure on internal procurement capacity at the Bank, and missing an opportunity for domestic procurement teams to modernise their own countrys systems and upskill procurement teams. How can the Bank build on STEP to increase the value of its procurement data?

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Did you use AI to write this tender? What? Just asking! -- Also, how will you use AI to deliver this contract?

How to Crack a Nut

Second, there is the issue of tenderers using (generative) AI to write or design their tenders. AI-generated tenders The AI PPN is however mostly concerned with the use of AI for tender generation. Slightly simplifying, there are three broad areas of AI-procurement interaction.

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