Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

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. New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. in 2021 to 4.2

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Scottish Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

Changes have been made to improve the readability of SPD Module content and responses, remove duplication in the SPD Module, improve the Search Notices and Search Buyer pages and to allow Buyers to create copies of previous Quick Quotes (QQ). No changes have been made to the SPD questions or the SPD functionality in PCS-Tender.

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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. 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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ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It employs 5500 employees in 9 facilities throughout Poland and as the only Distribution System Operator [DSO], it has its own distribution network in the country. Up until now, the orders and tenders of the company were frequently handled manually, which was time and labour intensive.

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Procureware

APRIL 12, 2019

Some regions and government offices still publish notices in local newspapers; today, however, the internet is the primary platform for posting bid/RFx solicitation notices and distributing bid documents. Making this information available to the public provides another level of transparency and emphasizes that the tender is open and fair.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

It consisted of 20 meetings with international experts, politicians, buyers and analysts ( recordings available in Russian). An article published in Kazakhstan by Gulbarshyn Karabalina and Svetlana Garkusha prompted the social services department of the Mangystau Region to use a competitive tender for the first time in years.

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Bonfire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

If you want to go a bit deeper into the funding distribution, our friends over at the National Association of Counties (NACo) have pulled this handy resource together that includes great visuals and other resources. This is also known as making a request for proposal (RFP) or a request to tender (RTT). Source: Investopedia.

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