Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. The system works by collecting public procurement data and structuring it in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format. Diegues says.

Data 57

Data Public Procurement Tender Price 57

ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

The data in this case is text from natural language , which is rarely structured data. It can be found in any human communications, either live conversations (ch atbots, email, speech to text devices …) or stored publicly on the Internet or privately as textual data in databases.

Data 60

Data Management Contract E-procurement 60

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We only have three regional offices and hundreds of buyers. But these organizations aren’t connected to the right government agencies, they don’t have good access to information, to the procurement plans, and the open data. Audits are post-mortems after things have gone bad. The results The numbers tell a compelling story.

Public Procurement 135

Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Challenge: In Ukraine, a lack of machine-readable data about procurement appeals made it difficult for government suppliers to defend their rights and interests. billion), according to data from Prozorro’s public business intelligence model. billion (US$1.9 Companies using the Clarity App generated 13.4%

Procurement 67

Procurement Tender Buyers Public Procurement 67

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

According to OECD and National Health Expenditure data, US healthcare spending per person was approx $10,224 in 2017. According to 2019 Definitive Healthcare data, U.S. Across this supply chain there is typically a lack of visibility due to siloed information and data. The only way to really understand that is data.

Supply Chain 87

Supply Chain Distribution Strategic Sourcing Quality 87

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.

Buyers 88

Buyers E-procurement Transparency Procurement 88

ivalua

JUNE 6, 2019

Everything procurement delivers – from savings to risk mitigation to value – is predicated on having access to clean, trustworthy data. They have also taken a hardline approach to supplier master data cleansing and standardization which led to a high quality supplier database they continue to work hard to maintain.

Supplier 40

Supplier Automotive Supply Chain Data 40

ivalua

JULY 13, 2022

Buyers are expected to scrutinize every aspect of the purchasing process to identify ways to reduce their carbon footprint, source sustainable materials, and promote diversity. The amount of data associated with these initiatives can be exponential, a burden too heavy to manage manually. ESG Objectives for Buyers.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Buyers Supplier E-procurement 52

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Working with one supplier under single-supplier systems guarantees constant quality and easier administration. The Benefits of Framework Agreements Framework agreements offer a streamlined procurement process that benefits both buyers and suppliers by simplifying the qualification and tendering stages, ultimately saving time and money.

Framework Agreement 52

Framework Agreement Procurement Supplier Tender 52

ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

Supplier Data Quality & Management in Decision Making. It may be the most basic level, but data management may also be the most daunting for some organizations. Supplier Data is at the core of every procurement activity, and it is critical for those dealing with direct materials in manufacturing.

Supply Chain 69

Supply Chain Procurement Supplier Procurement Team 69

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.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

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. If a bid is incorrectly evaluated, the buyer can hardly hold the AI response generator accountable.

Bidder 52

Bidder Tender Buyers Bidding 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

In spite of such major policy developments, we still lack the specific and rigorous evidence on the impact of transparency interventions and which types of transparency matter for which actors to support desirable societal outcomes such as high quality public services, procedural justice or public sector integrity (Bauhr et al, 2019).

Bidder 40

Bidder Transparency Contract Public Procurement 40

Tendersinfo

JUNE 4, 2021

Identify the Pain Areas of the Buyer It is of utmost importance to comprehend the requirements and recognize the torment spaces of the buyer. A tender response should be able to make you stand out from the competition and talk about how your services can add value to the buyer.

Bidding 52

Bidding Tender Buyers E-procurement 52

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. to as little as 1.8%, depending on the calculation method and source data.

Procurement 62

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

If a KPI meets all these five elements it provides valuable data to the organisation. If a supplier that was once performing well in relation to delivering excellent quality suddenly starts to present with many defects or lower quality items, this would raise concern. A good tool to use to create KPIs is SMART.

Import 59

Import Procurement Supplier Supply Chain 59

Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

The platform provides information on contracts available for bidding, buyer behaviour tracking, and market data to facilitate the tendering process. Buyer and competitor tracking: The platform can track the activities of potential customers and competitors.

Tender 52

Tender Bidding Buyers Competitive Bidding 52

ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

This means a significant risk of low commitment rates and low-quality (and therefore unreliable) data. Decarbonization will generate a significant increase in the amount of data buyers must manage. To improve efficiency, quality, and data capitalization, the buyer must have digitized tools at their disposal.

Supplier 52

Supplier Supply Chain Purchasing Buyers 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We want to unlock its power to improve economic inclusion and sustainability, rebuild integrity and trust, and deliver the quality public services that we all deserve. Solutions that are user-friendly and that use data to measure and improve outcomes from procurement. Open contracting has been the gift that keeps giving.

Procurement 89

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. That means the “data layer” which must provide a “unified data foundation”. Help build a shopping cart.

Supplier 70

Supplier Capacity Procurement Team Procurement 70

ivalua

JULY 8, 2020

Supplier Data Quality & Management in Decision Making. It may be the most basic level, but data management may also be the most daunting for some organizations. Supplier Data is at the core of every procurement activity, and it is critical for those dealing with direct materials in manufacturing.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Procurement Procurement Team Supplier 10

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The clauses include a few substantive requirements implicit in the allocation of the respective obligations (eg on data or third party licences) but mostly refer to detailed schedules of which there is no default proposal, or to industry standards (and thus have this limitation in common with eg the EU’s model AI clauses).

Supplier 75

Supplier Transparency Negotiation Procurement 75

ivalua

APRIL 1, 2019

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. When: Moving the Point of Data Collection. Procurement needs to gather use-agnostic data about suppliers much sooner in the sourcing process.

Supplier 53

Supplier Management Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing 53

ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

The data in this case is text from natural language , which is rarely structured data. It can be found in any human communications, either live conversations (ch atbots, email, speech to text devices …) or stored publicly on the Internet or privately as textual data in databases.

Contract 58

Contract E-procurement Data Management 58

ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

This allows for part-payments, quality or milestone-based contract terms, even payment on receipt to be visible to the supplier, finance, treasury, and the buyers. All this is transparent across the payment journey, to the buyer and supplier. How does the solution remove friction in the supply chain?

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supplier Buyers Finance 52

ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. At the same time, organizations have never been more exposed to risk from their supply chains, from supply continuity, quality, or ESG violations. Gain control of your supplier data. Map your Sub – tier.

Supplier 52

Supplier Management Collaboration Supply Chain 52

Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It is important, however, also to consider that contract prices on an indefinite quantity indefinite delivery contract, such as the MAS, are based on unknown requirements and must cover every possible contingency, e.g. , quantity, quality, delivery, complexity, scale, location, security clearance level, etc.

Price 52

Price Quantity Quality Import 52

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The GSAR addresses the negotiation of FSS pricing based on submission of an offeror’s commercial sales practices (CSP) and, alternatively, offerors that have opted in to transactional data reporting (TDR) where no CSP is required. In some cases, these directives are inconsistent with the FAR and/or GSAR guidance. See FAR 8.001.

Negotiation 58

Negotiation Price Government Government 58

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Identifying Value , is where procurement teams leverage spend data and spend analysis to understand trends in spend and identify opportunities and develop category management strategies. . Procurement can and should be a significant value generator for the larger organization. What is Indirect Procurement? Direct vs Indirect Procurement.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Procurement Team 52

Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

The framework provides excellent value for money with savings of around 50% on core voice and data services against the previous framework rates and utilises Vodafone’s Public Sector Traveller (PST) service which allows users to take their UK allowance when travelling in overseas locations (where PST is available).

Collaboration 67

Collaboration E-catalogue Framework Agreement E-procurement 67

Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 9, 2023

It promotes promotes competition, as more companies can sell to governments allowing them to obtain greater “value for money” (more quality and better prices). It is currently in the phase of analyzing data and defining the steps to update its supplier registry to be able to identify women-owned companies in its system.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Participation Procurement Import 52

ivalua

MARCH 3, 2020

Its resources are too often consumed in labor-intensive tasks of lower added-value like gathering data from scattered legacy systems. Also, the gates to become a supplier to a large company are typically designed with bigger organizations in mind : dependency criteria, environmental charters, ethical declaration, quality labels, etc.

Procurement 72

Procurement Supplier Collaboration Innovation 72

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

VIGIA is a unique initiative that allows entrepreneurs to easily find public procurement business opportunities in Paraguay, as well as provide real-time high-quality feedback about irregularities. One key issue that became increasingly evident was the limited engagement between entrepreneurs and buyers.

Tender 52

Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It is important, however, also to consider that contract prices on an indefinite quantity indefinite delivery contract, such as the MAS, are based on unknown requirements and must cover every possible contingency, e.g. , quantity, quality, delivery, complexity, scale, location, security clearance level, etc.

Price 45

Price Quantity Quality Import 45

ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

When it comes to estimation-based forecasting, Amrest has been able to capture some data, but they need to have the right tools in place to effectively utilize their data sets. Overall, their strategy must move toward data-driven decision-making to provide real-time information visibility.

Finance 52

Finance Supply Chain Procurement Supplier 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Throwing drawings over the fence when it is time to quote means your design is locked down and gives buyers little negotiation power for sourcing alternatives. . As an organization you need a system of record not only for capturing supplier capabilities but for reporting on other quality metrics with ongoing frequency as well. .

Supplier 40

Supplier Management Supply Chain Buyers 40

Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Without competitive bidding, prices go up, and the quality of goods and services languishes. When competition is weak, government departments risk procuring poor-quality tenders, leading to cost overruns, project delays, or failed outcomes. Robust competition in public procurement can bring these promising outcomes.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Tender Framework Agreement 52