Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It facilitates budgeting and financial planning. This is more than an inconvenience—it reflects a gap in the procurement process, where the government’s agreement with the EBT vendor failed to prioritize the inclusion of a free, user-friendly mobile app as a deliverable. In the U.S., governments spend $4.4

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Mahna notes that public sector entities lack resources to combat cyber threats. He says this is due to tighter state and local budgets. OMNIA Partners , who sponsors this page, offers a robust portfolio of cooperative contracts in the public procurement space. What’s more, local governments remain vulnerable.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Throughout the evolution of project and public procurement management, terms and expressions in the field have increasingly been used interchangeably. Single Source : In some cases, procurement may rely on a single known supplier , especially when no alternative options exist, or time constraints make broader competition impractical.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, we take a look back at what has been achieved over the last year in Public Procurement in Scotland. We asked members of the Public Procurement Group (PPG) to summarise their sector’s 2023 achievements. You can watch the video below, or read the transcript at the bottom of the page.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. million (~US$24,000) being returned to the budget. And two-thirds of public spending is conducted through an opaque quasi-governmental sector.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s no secret that procurement professionals nationwide are struggling with budgets, bandwidth and staffing shortages. The procurement team from Dorchester County, South Carolina is a successful example of what you can also achieve with a cooperative strategy.

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Tendersinfo

MARCH 24, 2021

Ultimate Guide to the Insight of Public Procurement Professionals Public Procurement is a multi-staged activity and requires a thorough understanding of each process to be more successful with the bids. Procurement Formalization- It determines the sources, budget, and approach to formalize the requirements.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A critical finding and recommendation of the World Bank report is to strengthen the transparency and efficiency of public spending and procurement, including through open data and digital procurement reforms. But I disagree. None of this money is ever really “lost” — someone always knows exactly where it is.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In its search for commercial partners, the city needed to promote competition in a concentrated marketplace, learn more about the latest bike share technology and innovations, and provide better and expanded service at the same or lower budget.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 4, 2025

As aid budgets shrink and the pressure to end aid dependency grows, governments are under growing pressure to maximize domestic resources and value for money. Improving public procurement, which accounts for one in every three dollars spent by governments, is one of the core ways countries can do more with the same – or less.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 4, 2024

Public procurement needs to be more transparent, efficient, and accountable to tackle the major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the world. I have had opportunities to support more than 60 countries across the globe in reviewing and advising their e-procurement (e-GP) initiatives.

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Telles.eu

JANUARY 27, 2023

Under the Portuguese Public Contracts Code (art 19(b)), the public works contracts should have been preceded of either an open or restricted procedure, but the contracts were awarded directly without competition to different economic operators and this is where it gets interesting. Why was this possible?

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We know that procurement professionals have an appreciation of how public procurement activity can support net-zero aims for their organisation and Scotland as a whole. eLearning is available from the Sustainable Procurement Tools platform.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, we take a look back at what has been achieved over the last year in Public Procurement in Scotland. We asked members of the Public Procurement Group (PPG) to summarise their sector’s 2023 achievements. The post 2023 – A year in review with the Public Procurement Group appeared first on.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

By analyzing government contracts, city budgets, and resident surveys, the community gained a clearer picture of what had been achieved and what still needed attention. To answer these questions, civic group ACIJ (Civil Association for Equality and Justice) developed a methodology using open data and citizen participation to monitor progress.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cunningham notes that for cities, the goal is not just to acquire technology, but to implement solutions that enhance public services, improve efficiency and demonstrate responsible use of taxpayer funds—in both the short and long term. Cunningham says governments need to conform to public sector rules as they shop for new systems.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process.

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European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

He spotlights the following causes and vulnerabilities that have recently popped up: connected devices and remote work have created new entry points for malicious actors, and budget constraints are often constricting governments from acquiring security infrastructure or access to cybersecurity expertise.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I think it is appropriate to look into his legacy of 8 years as PM in the field of public procurement. The paediatric ward for Sao Joao Hospital The Budget Law for 2019 included a rule allowing for the direct award of the public works contract to build a new paediatric ward for the second largest hospital in the country.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

Manages and oversees the central procurement system to maintain the integrity of the public procurement process and guard against ethical challenges and charges of fraud, waste or inefficiency. Experience with budgeting preferred. Three (3) years supervisory experience.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Public procurement constitutes about one-third of government spending or 13 trillion USD per year. Corruption in public procurement can lead to: 1) Overpriced public procurement contracts contributing to larger budget deficits. GTI-R/2020:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. Full PDF

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The Procurement School

MAY 27, 2024

Author : Chris Sheel Delivering major capital projects on time and on budget has always been a challenging and elusive goal. Budgets previously developed require reactive revisitation as estimates balloon. Public Procurement in Canada Certified procurement professionals play a pivotal role in the public procurement world.

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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. The first phase, Introductory Course on Public Procurement, took place online from October to December 2021.

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ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

The deployment was achieved on budget and ahead of schedule. In recent years Ivalua has become the technology of choice for public sector procurement leaders throughout the U.S. and the world. ” About Ivalua Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management solutions.

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BLP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

His specialties include Public Law, Public Procurement & Regulation. He joined the BLP team in 2023 as an associate, after having worked for more than 5 years in Public Administration Institutions of Honduras. Degree in Legal Sciences (cum laude), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, 2020.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. They currently service 30 clients in Latin America.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Roughly nine out of ten countries publish open data sets for national and sector-specific budgets and expenditures. Countries are steadily moving towards digitalizing public procurement. The legislative framework supporting e-government still varies significantly across regions.

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Scottish Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To support further meeting our ambitions for public participation, we have carried out a number of innovative participatory approaches to involve people in the work of government.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

The transparency principle is about making information easily accessible to the public: it prescribes that all procuring entities should ensure the publication of all relevant information on the Central Public Procurement Portal (CPPP). Facilitate matching with other public datasets (e.g.,

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Open contracting approach: The open contracting risk monitoring platform Opentender.net empowers auditors to prioritize which procedures to investigate, gather evidence and respond to public complaints more effectively.

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The Procurement School

AUGUST 21, 2024

Factors which influence outsourcing: Smaller public entities, in terms of budgets, typically do not fund staffing resources for procurement. In 5-years, that’s 50% of the procurement staff being replaced. The 3rd party becomes the buying agency and represents the interests of the public entity.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 25, 2019

Where price analysis is a mandatory requirement for all procurements, such as in the case of the MCC-PPG, an unreasonable price is a reason for rejecting a bid. Handbook, Advanced Certificate in Public Procurement Level 3. Competitive Price Method This method is used when several acceptable qualified bids are received.

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Mercell

APRIL 2, 2019

Such platforms exploit your public solicitation information. (In In the EU, it is prohibited by law to charge suppliers to access and respond to public solicitations.) We all know public procurement can be made better and more efficient by automating quite a few aspects of your work.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Results: A year after the new procurement law was passed, the public procurement agency (DNCP) is using machine-learning to identify tenders that are most likely to be awarded to smaller businesses. Firstly, they gathered the three key public procurement actors in the same team and aligned on the same vision.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Contract termination in public procurement under the Procurement Act 2023directs to the lawful termination of a contract between acontracting authorityand a supplier, providing compliance withpublic contracts regulations.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 15, 2024

A large majority of the 13 surveyed countries for this specific topic in the region practice gender budgeting (or 77%), which aims to address gender disparities in policy and resource allocation, compared to 61% of OECD countries. Public procurement can be used to promote social objectives, sustainability, and environmental responsibility.

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