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The four key drivers that can enable better IT procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

More often than not, public procurement of technology is viewed as non-transparent, uncompetitive, poorly planned, inefficient, costly, and having high failure rates. Solution: Open contracting fosters competition among vendors, reducing costs through competitive bidding.

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How Government Contracting (Government Procurement) Offers Opportunities for Innovation

Tracker Intelligence

But beyond the financial rewards, what does your business stand to gain from getting involved in public procurement with the government? And how can you stand apart from the competition to win government procurement contracts in the first place? Currently, almost one-third of public money is spent on government procurement.

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NAO - framework agreements don't achieve competition!

Naomi Clews Consultancy

Public Procurement Report The latest National Audit Office (NAO) report provides detailed recommendations for UK Government departments’ to maximise the benefits of effective competition when they run public procurement processes.

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Risk of anti-competitive collusion after excessive level of transparency in public procurement debriefing?

European Law: Public Procurement

In its Judgment of 4 October 2012 in case C‑629/11 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission (ESP-ISEP) , the Court of Justice has issued another interesting decision on what should be considered sufficient debriefing of disappointed bidders in public procurement procedures. 1) (‘the Financial Regulation’).

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Direct Awards of PPE Contracts - What Lessons Can Be Learnt?

VWV

Critical and urgent procurements, together with other procurements which may not have started as urgent, have become priorities, due to the volume of additional work created by the pandemic. This is likely to be harder for non-NHS contracting authorities to demonstrate unless the nature of the contract is for public health.