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GSA is cooking up a new, comprehensive procurement data source

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The government both creates and runs on data. Given that agencies spend hundreds of billions of dollars on goods and services the more procurement data it has, the better it can understand trends and ‘manage’ procurement. That’s the idea behind a data source effort known as Hi-Def.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. The number of suppliers per buyer increased from 8.0 Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. in 2024.

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Supplier Diversity: From Checking-the-Box to a C-Suite Strategy

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For the Government, supplier diversity programs are something procurement professionals in the United States (US) have accepted as a key element to their procurement success. Since their inception more than 50 years ago, supplier diversity programs have spread beyond public procurements. Supplier Diversity on the World Stage.

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Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Open Contracting Partnership

Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. In October 2024, use of the pre-bidding module became mandatory for Mexico City’s buyers. It all starts with procurement.

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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

Open Contracting Partnership

Traditional procurement approaches prioritised lowest price, which led to unintended consequences like accepting bids of lower quality, a lesser performance record or that did not adequately allow buyers to consider equity, sustainability or socio-economic objectives like creating local jobs.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society. in 2020 to 59.7%

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Was UK’s Covid PPE procurement even worse than we thought? New analysis raises more red flags

Open Contracting Partnership

Here is an example from BuyandSellCanada of a well-structured, orderly process with clear supplier specification of what PPE was needed. Here is Colombia setting up an open framework to better connect buyers and sellers in an orderly and transparent manner. The market is disrupted, buyers and suppliers urgently need to connect.