Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We only have three regional offices and hundreds of buyers. This is now changing” A vision for bottom-up participation To develop the project and engage all stakeholders, PPDA brought together government buyers (known as Procuring and Disposing Entities or PDEs) and civil society organizations together in regional meetings.

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Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

My short answer is that AI procurement is different because it poses technical and contextual risks that we are yet to fully understand and because public buyers cannot (yet) rely on traditional de-risking tools—which leaves them exposed to regulatory and commercial capture. The question is then whether this is a teething problem.

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Procurement Buyers IT Influencing 67

How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

Please note Saema’s disclaimer that “I am commercial practitioner and I am writing in a personal capacity. I am reading a leaflet for a contract management portal when I overhear a conversation between a buyer and a supplier. “I says a buyer. AI might be fast, but buyers cannot rely on it to be a subject matter expert.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The one finding that should definitely not go unnoticed is that, according to DRCF, ‘ Buyers can lack the technical expertise to effectively scrutinise the [algorithmic systems] they are procuring, whilst vendors may limit the information they share with buyers ’ (at 9). This is extremely worrying.

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Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Seasoned practitioners in public procurement can be jaded from situations that have gone wrong, and it is common for inexperienced public buyers to experience risk aversion and fear of the unknown. Relationships will benefit when buyers promptly respond to SMEs’ queries and consider them as a valuable and positive part of the job.

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Participation Procurement Strategies Procurement Buyers 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In our 2016–17 ACE project, we focused on collecting data from development aid donors and lenders rather than from national governments, assuming that this would be a more reliable source since such agencies face a lot of pressure to be transparent, and also have the capacity to collect data.

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Data Public Procurement Procurement Buyers 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We will support local partners to grow their capacity, especially local-rooted civil society partners who are natural users of public procurement information such as reAcción in Paraguay , CivicDataLab in India or Africa Freedom of Information Centre in Uganda. Check out our regional pages and newsletters for updates!

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 89

ivalua

APRIL 12, 2019

A recent Ivalua study with Forester identified capacity being consumed by operational and manual activities as one barrier, along with a lack of contextual access to insights, and poor data quality as other blockers. So, is AI the light at the end of the tunnel for overworked procurement functions?

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Supplier Capacity Procurement Team Procurement 70

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And we think of the defense industrial base has strained in terms of capacity to manufacture what’s needed around the world and, you know, missile systems and ammunition and so forth. For more, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with attorney Justin Chiarodo, a partner at Blank Rome. Regulatory risk.

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Export Supply Chain Manufacturing Participation 108

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

As somebody who led a digital transformation program in the UK government and who now listens to government transformation leaders around the world, I joined the panel with leaders from the International Monetary Fund Capacity Development, the World Bank, and Brazil’s federal government.

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Innovation Procurement Government Government 78

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. One key recommendation was to require government buyers to pay advances to MSME suppliers at 20% of the full contract value.

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Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

Additionally, the implementation of this policy has been aided by Supply Nation , certifying Indigenous businesses and maintaining a comprehensive directory to connect these suppliers with buyers in all sectors, public and private. Ethical Spend Toolset.

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Supplier E-procurement Ethics Supply Chain 98

Federal News Network

AUGUST 16, 2024

So companies are building micro satellites and geo are doing that exact thing, providing that capability for individual countries or regions to get capacity, instead of the entire content having to pool capital together in order to get capacity. So defense will continue to be the biggest buyer space services and hardware.

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2025

Advanced Tools and Competitive Intelligence In addition to finding tenders , premium platforms provide information on previous tenders, buyer trends, and contract awards. These technologies can be useful in a supplemental capacity, particularly for groups with little funding or during early stages of tendering.

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Tender Bidding Supplier E-procurement 52

Procureware

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This is important because the different contracting methods influence how buyers will select contractors. The National Institute of Government Procurement (NIGP) recently released a whitepaper about construction delivery methods. The Selecting the Appropriate Construction Delivery Method whitepaper provides an excellent introduction.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In a market where production capacity has suddenly been saturated by exponential demand, these product suppliers, whether strategic or otherwise, preferred or not, are now the ones able to choose which customers to work with. Of course, Buyers’ time is limited. Of course, the amount of information to process is huge.

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Supplier Management Supply Chain Tender 52

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Since launching their platform in 2020, Diegues and Blanco have built a set of digital tools and data analytics services that have bridged the gap between more than 250 private sector users and public procurement buyers in six countries across Latin America. They started with a simple idea that is complex to implement in practice.

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Data Public Procurement Tender Price 57

Public Contracting Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Leveraging Set-Aside Programs for Business Growth Set-aside programs offer more than just an opportunity to win contracts—they are a catalyst for scaling veteran-owned businesses and enhancing their market presence.

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Contract E-procurement Government Contracts Procurement Strategies 52

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 9, 2023

To improve efficiency, the city also focused on generating data to better target women-owned businesses, as well as training and outreach programs for public buyers and women entrepreneurs. 4) Capacity building. It will be necessary to update the supplier registry to consider certified women-owned businesses.

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Public Procurement Participation Procurement Supplier 52

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Some of the most notable issues that emerged from our conversations with buyers included the lack of authority to curb cases of misconduct and the lack of resources for effectively designing and executing purchases. One key issue that became increasingly evident was the limited engagement between entrepreneurs and buyers.

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Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

Following our theoretical framework, we also expect transparency effects to unfold over time with many effects arising through the help of stakeholders – journalists picking up stories based on newly available data, buyers learning about procurement markets or bidder finding new opportunities more efficiently.

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Bidder Transparency Public Procurement Contract 40

The Procurement School

AUGUST 11, 2023

ERP systems are requisite tools in a global market which enable more buyers and sellers to engage in contracting opportunities. The efficiencies can reduce office space, reduce hiring, reduce on-going training, reduce investment in technology and continuous upgrades, and increase workload capacity.

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Efficiency Balance Procurement E-procurement 52

ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

getting involved early on in the New Product Introduction ( NPI) cycle to ensure suppliers risk is being properly evaluated in production capacity and quality. Giving buyers the proper tools to become key business partners is not a “nice to have” scenario—it is a critical path to managing risk and ensuring success.

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Supply Chain Supplier Manufacturing Strategic Sourcing 40

University of Bristol

OCTOBER 14, 2019

It can also support public buyers in identifying the green or sustainable public procurement criteria that will deliver the biggest improvements measured against any chosen key performance indicator, such as CO 2 footprint, as well as support the development of robust methodologies for life-cycle costing.

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Sustainability Procurement Public Procurement IT 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 4, 2024

By way of example: General contractor B delivers to buyer A goods which B bought from C. Parties are often wary of the complications possibly arising from the involvement of a third party in the arbitration in such capacity and role. B thereupon brings a claim for recourse against C.

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Participation Buyers Contract Negotiation 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Time to recover (TTR) is the amount of time a particular supply chain node needs to regain full capacity after a specific shock. That requires as close to real time sharing of information as possible, from both buyers and suppliers.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Management Supplier 52

Federal News Network

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s a narrative about the contributions and the potential of women owned businesses to generate growth, to create jobs and to meet the needs of corporate and government buyers. Tom Temin So what do you think federal contracting officers can do? Now I start to grow my capacity and be able to provide better services.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 19, 2024

The Farmer’s app connects farmers with reliable buyers in Botswana. AWS has a long-standing commitment to deploy its technological capacity and ecosystem support in service of Africa’s growth story. In December 2022, the Biden administration announced an ambitious new program at the U.S.-Africa

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Public Private Partnership Inventory E-procurement Supply Chain 69

The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 15, 2024

As we bid farewell to Tom in his professional capacity, the Coalition extends our heartfelt gratitude for his years of service and wish him all the best in his well-deserved retirement. Tom’s unwavering support for the Coalition has always been evident, through his time as a member and as Executive Vice President & General Counsel.

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E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement Price 52

Select GCR

APRIL 8, 2025

For certain industries, additional factors such as financial assets and refining capacity may also be considered. GSA Schedules provide local government buyers access to a wide range of commercial supplies and services at discounted prices, facilitating procurement processes for local government entities.

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Contract Government Contracts Participation Utilities 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Specifically, the PAP states that “[t]he term “fair and reasonable” is generally considered to mean a price that is fair to both parties in a transaction , not higher than what the competitive market would bear or a price that a prudent and competent buyer would pay for a product or service under competitive market conditions.” See Section 2.

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Supply Chain Price E-procurement Contract 52

FedScoop

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The market is currently giving buyers all sorts of AI tools; Brown said “every single product” the FDIC buys now “has AI embedded somewhere.” But I think there’s going to be a period … where the hype kind of corrects itself. The market corrects itself.”

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IT Insurance Buyers Capacity 126