How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.

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Scottish Government Procurement

AUGUST 27, 2024

Alongside networking opportunities, delegates can gain top tendering tips, by attending speaker sessions in the keynote arena. Book your free place now via the SDP website! Meet the Buyer North 2024 is aimed at all micro, small and medium size organisations, looking to win work in the North of Scotland.

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How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

This guest post by Saema Jaffer* explores the policy approaches that can be followed in the UK, and elsewhere, in relation to the use of AI in the writing and evaluation of tender documents. It was submitted to the ‘a book for a blog’ competition and has won Saema a copy that will soon be on the post. says a buyer.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Supplier Relationship Management – time to rewrite the rule-book? Of course, it is important to know the number of orders there are for a given supplier, if this supplier is financially dependent and if it complies with legislation and negotiated contracts. Tenders are an under-used source of information.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

How the School of Applied Research in Public Procurement trained community leaders to dig into government contracting issues in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It inspired the creation of a free self-guided e-course on Open Contracting Basics too.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 6, 2023

By the same regulatory logic, this technique will be a conveyor belt for the shortcomings of the EU AI Act, which will be embedded in public contracts using the clauses. I have demonstrated how this is a flawed regulatory strategy in my forthcoming book Digital Technologies and Public Procurement.

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How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It was submitted to the ‘a book for a blog’ competition and has won Giuseppe a copy that will soon be on the post. On a (trite) humoristic note: a first idea to slow any task down would be to leave its implementation to a cumbersome public tender procedure. This could be done ideally via targeted functionality tests (e.g.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this blog, we take a look at whether or not your business can give employees a reduction in hours and still win essential private and public sector contracts. We help businesses like yours on their way to becoming the next public sector supplier, assisting with early engagement, expert advice , tender alerts , and support along the way.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate. The post Using AI for green procurement appeared first on Open Contracting Partnership.

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The Procurement School

MAY 27, 2024

Collective agreements offer some predictability, but lump sum tendered bids often must guess the future and buffer to avoid loss. Discussing, costing, and contractually sharing risk “opens the books” and explores the genuine costs associated with owning and operating a business.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The government has promoted public participation in procurement monitoring, which is vital to combating corruption and improving efficiency, but few independent civil society organizations and individuals had the information, skills and influence to track contracting effectively. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget.

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