Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This excellent book discusses the many smart, sensible ways of dealing with emergency procurement. Here is an example from BuyandSellCanada of a well-structured, orderly process with clear supplier specification of what PPE was needed. Meanwhile, Germany used buyers lists with specified maximum prices as another effective tool.

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2019

Supplier information is typically viewed by procurement organizations as one of two things. It is either a data input, such as what we gather and use in spend analysis, or it is a process by-product, such as the information we gather from prospective suppliers during strategic sourcing. It does not tell us much about the suppliers.

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ivalua

MARCH 29, 2019

Even in terms of the “improved sales / marketing” route, there are possibilities – maybe procurement can work with the marketing team to find innovative suppliers in areas such as digital marketing? When it comes to improving existing products (or services), suppliers are often better placed than the business itself to identify opportunities.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This regulatory technique simply seeks to allow public buyers to ensure compliance with the EU AI Act by cascading the relevant obligations and requirements down to tech providers (largely on a back to back basis). Limitations in the model AI clauses The model AI clauses come with some additional ‘caveat emptor’ warnings.

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Tracker Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

Government procurement refers to the purchase of common goods, works and services by government agencies, usually from private sector suppliers. It can’t go bankrupt and has an obligation to pay its suppliers on time — within 30 days. Buyers can then call on the selected suppliers to provide services whenever they are needed.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

The question is, however: can business owners really give the go-ahead for shorter working weeks, what impact will it have on their operations, and will their buyers and customers choose to jump ship if they do? If you want to find out more, book a free trial today ! Well, here at Tracker, that’s exactly what we do.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Agility means finding, assessing, selecting, onboarding, contracting and going live with suppliers rapidly and in a manner that is as painless as possible for everyone. But agility also requires the right attitude, and of course we need agile suppliers too – but that’s another story! .

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

Regulators can better promote green procurement by sharing guidance in simpler language that can more readily be reused in procurement notices (and understood by potential suppliers). These texts are quite different from procurement notices.

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ivalua

AUGUST 22, 2019

Webinar Title: Critical factors for selecting your suppliers. This involved designing and building solutions to support the Source to Pay and Order to Cash journeys for Buyers and Suppliers. Event Type: Webinar in partnership with Procurious. Speaker: Steve Carter. Date: 3 September 2019. Time: 11 am. Register here: [link].

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Why is it important to put the sparkle back into your Supplier Relationships? For many organisations, SRM is a tool simply to manage suppliers, totally missing the ‘Relationship’ aspect. Attend this presentation to learn: How to motivate and collaborate with suppliers. How to reduce supplier risk in your business.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The media organization ProTenge, which exposed tenders to buy books and publish articles about the ex-President that were subsequently canceled. But, with millions of contracts awarded every year, they couldn’t manually check the VAT status of every supplier. When Datanomix were approached by Adildik Joly, the redflags.ai

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