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Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Open Contracting Partnership

Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced.

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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. Its now gearing up for a fifth. Two other moving companies joined the lawsuit this month: Total Military Management on Dec.

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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. Goods : Documents used for procuring physical items.

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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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DoD raises formal performance concerns on multibillion dollar moving contract

Federal News Network

billion GHC contract after a prolonged series of bid protests. However, HomeSafes current struggles in securing enough trucking and labor capacity to meet the demands of the new contract are completely unsurprising to many of the companies who currently conduct moves under the existing system, known as the tender-for-service program.

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Top Construction Tenders in the UK

Tracker Intelligence

Introduction to Construction Tenders in the UK For companies that require tenders in order to obtain new contracts, construction tenders are particularly important in the UK. What Are Construction Tenders? Formal invitations to tender for construction projects are sent to companies and contractors.

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