Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Data scientists, journalists, researchers and former civil servants with an interest in public procurement are systematically monitoring contracting procedures for corruption risks and irregularities , using analytics tools that source data from the government’s e-procurement system via a public API.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The guidance also indicates that ‘ Greater transparency of procurement data will make it easier to see what approaches have been successful and encourage use of those approaches more widely across the public sector.’ This is an important issue that may require further discussion in a separate post. 48 and 46 PCR 2015). 30 PCR 2015).

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2025

Imagine thisyoure drowning in a sea of public tenders, scrolling endlessly through Contracts Finder, hoping to spot that one golden opportunity before your competitors do. Think of it as your shortcut to the best public sector bodies tenders, cutting through the clutter so you dont have to. Sound familiar? Not anymore.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As we’ll discuss, tender contracts are becoming an increasingly viable option for businesses to attract new suppliers and contracts. However, many businesses may not know where to turn when it comes to tender contracts. Recent data shows that more than one-third of businesses were short of workers overall.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

In a previous blog , we explored some common problems data scientists encounter when collecting and analyzing data. Some of these challenges are made more explicit in our most recent report, “India’s Federal Procurement Data Infrastructure: Observations and Recommendations.” CSV, JSON, XML) to improve usability.

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How to Crack a Nut

MAY 8, 2024

It is a very accessible and helpful primer on some of the most salient issues to be considered when exploring the possibility of using AI to extract insights from procurement big data. In this post, I venture some thoughts on meaning, AI, and public procurement big data. Intuitively, ‘meaning’ would be important to the comparison.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Open data is often lauded as a magic pill for anti-corruption: reveal what’s going on, inform the public, and, presto, government will become more accountable. Oh, and big data just means bigger gains, right? But even the very first stage — collecting the data — is much harder than it seems.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. With data excellence as one of the pillars of their mission, TenderNed has been working on creating better data within the Dutch government for several years.

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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. 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.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Can everything be green?

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

With the help of automated analytical tools, the agency has been able to focus its prevention and control efforts on transactions with the highest risk, and in turn, harness the power of data to institutionalize better purchasing practices among government entities that conduct procurement through the Mercado Publico online platform.

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the best platforms for finding public sector contracts in the UK to help procurement professionals, buyers and suppliers make the right decisions. That’s where contract and tender platforms come in.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To public sector buyers, frameworks are not just tools; they are time-saving, compliance-enhancing, and value-extracting tools from previously assessed suppliers. These critical steps can streamline the tender process, and position your business for success in the public sector market.

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Tendersinfo

JUNE 4, 2021

Here we have listed out few insights about e tendering business that can help you make the right bid. Subcontracting Subcontracting opportunities are a good way to start if you are new to the tendering business. Tie-up with big players ensure regular flow of work and helps to venture into newer markets.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

Procurement’s role in supporting modern, digital services for governments is the subject of a report from the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Open Contracting Partnership (OCP). The simplified procurement process worked for tech and focused on outcomes, so the government became a knowledgeable buyer of technology.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As well in June, we had Meet the Buyer National, a great event that took place in Hampden Park in Glasgow, where businesses, social enterprises, and third sector organisations, all came together with Scottish public procurers. The aim of the platform is to support data-driven procurement decisions. A really good and enjoyable event.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

However, to assess the (abstract) potential of procurement as a regulatory tool, it is worth distinguishing between practical and legal challenges, and to focus on legal challenges that would be present at all levels of public buyer capability.

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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.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

They also have to change private and public tender, spend analysis coordination, and how to approach market leads. Changes with Private Tender It’s safe to say that private tender hasn’t seen many changes. However, potential contracts that go out to tender are seeing slower processing.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These agreements define terms, conditions and price for goods and services and allow authorities to procure without having to re-run lengthy tender processes. Tracker Intelligence is a great tool to help vendors precisely and easily negotiate the complexity of the tendering process.

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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.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We analyse data points from World Bank-funded development aid tenders over 12 years in >100 developing countries, and observe the heterogeneous effects of a 2003 anti-corruption reform aimed at increasing oversight and opening up competition.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But when it comes to public procurement, they represent less than 5% of vendors participating in the system in the last 3 years, according to official data. One key issue that became increasingly evident was the limited engagement between entrepreneurs and buyers. And how could we reach those entrepreneurs?

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Next, you have to review the data gathered on these suppliers. Most of the time, the data gathered on a supplier by a Procurement department is only intelligible to Procurement practitioners. Additionally, this data really talks about the way in which this Procurement department buys. Of course, Buyers’ time is limited.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This is particularly problematic for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), which often need more resources to participate in complex, bureaucratic tender processes dominated by a few more prominent competitors. As a result, the UK public sector may be missing out on SMEs’ innovation and flexibility.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

Solutions that are user-friendly and that use data to measure and improve outcomes from procurement. Similarly, Lithuania is now tracking the use of “green” criteria to promote the procurement of environmentally friendly products and services, and Paraguay uses machine-learning to advertise tenders suitable for small businesses.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

This policy required the inclusion of Indigenous businesses in public opportunities without requiring an overly burdensome and costly tender process. As more and more organizations, countries, and cultures embrace diversity programs, unique certifications and data sources will increase exponentially.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

They were selected based on the implementation of recent open contracting reforms and the availability of procurement data for both before and after the reforms. By implication, each of these cases represent a data rich environment to start with.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Further details can be found here: Procurement – media planning buying and associated services: guidance – gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Recruitment Ads and Pins The renewal process for Recruitment Ads and Pins is underway with tender submissions being evaluated. Work on the re-let has commenced and currently it is out to Tender.

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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. When choosing a model, it’s important to understand its training data. 2018) dataset.

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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.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Together, these governance measures ensure that public sector buyers uphold the principles of fairness, ethics, and accountability. Working with SMEs and local businesses enhances their ability to seek tenders, thus fostering inclusiveness and innovation. With this feature, you are never going to miss out on any tender alerts.

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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).

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ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of the year-long project, PKP Energetyka will implement the modules facilitating the registration of Contracts, e-Catalogs, Tender Management, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and finally, Invoice handling. The key goals are not only the safety or optimization and acceleration of the Procurement processes as such.

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University of Bristol

OCTOBER 14, 2019

For example, new analytics applied to open transport data can significantly improve procurement planning to support more sustainable urban mobility strategies, as well as the emergence of new models for the procurement of mobility as a service (MaaS). It is difficult enough to have access to information on ‘live’ tender procedures.

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