Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

What is PCS-Tender? PCS-Tender is the national eTendering system funded by the Scottish Government. The system is a secure and efficient way for Buyers and Suppliers to manage tender exercises online. Where can I find PCS-Tender User Guides? The PCS-Tender Supplier Guides have been updated.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Procurement would thus be a set of administrative law requirements concerned with the design and advertisement of tenders for public contracts, the decision-making process leading to the award of those contracts, and the advertisement and potential challenge of such decisions.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The guidance indicates that the changes in the Procurement Act will help public buyers in three ways: ‘ The new rules focus more on delivering outcomes (as opposed to ‘going through the motions’ of a rigid process). 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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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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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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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While there is no simple way of measuring the impact of all civic monitoring activities, some impressive achievements have been documented. The media organization ProTenge, which exposed tenders to buy books and publish articles about the ex-President that were subsequently canceled. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget.

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For example, after analyzing spending related to child protection services in 2023, the Observatory released a report showing that the procuring entity made three purchase orders that lacked sufficient documentation to justify the use of a non-competitive, emergency procurement method. Of these, US$19.5

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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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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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ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

The Strategic Sourcing modules of Ivalua allow Punch Powertrain buyers to define Purchasing needs collaboratively, consolidate the tendering documents and ease costing by suppliers (cost breakdown files, dialogue with the projects on technical feasibility).

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. This allows data and documents at all stages of the contracting cycle to be disclosed according to a common data model.

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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. All Dutch authorities must publish their above-the-threshold tenders via the TenderNed platform , so businesses can access all public data and documents from a single webpage.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The fundamental tenets of fairness, value for money, and transparency form the foundation of public procurement and contribute to the development of an atmosphere that benefits suppliers as well as buyers. Value for Money (VfM) in Public Procurement What Does Value for Money Mean in Public Procurement?

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Restoration work is tendered on behalf of the landowner who is the client, but increasingly, these opportunities will appear on PCS as Prior Information Notices. We tender feasibility studies for the assessment of peatland sites and a plan for their restoration directly and have three current opportunities listed in August 2023.

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Procureware

JANUARY 22, 2018

They want to know if they should create online forms or simply have suppliers upload bid documents. Where we started – manual bid management In manual systems, bid or tender responses are received via hard-copy or electronically via email, portable media, or file upload into an online site like Dropbox. My answer is always “yes.”

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

To better understand the challenges small businesses face when bidding for public tenders, and complementary to its Lift impact accelerator project, the Open Contracting Partnership engaged in conversations with entrepreneurs, public officials, and civil society actors with a stake in improving the public procurement system.

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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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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

Therefore, following discussions at the ISF EU Hackathon last year, we wondered if AI could assist us in identifying green requirements in real procurement documents based on a predefined list of recommended green requirements. It is regularly procured across Europe and its green requirements are well documented by the EU.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A written process is a method of arranging resources and activities in a document to explain how they transform inputs into outputs to satisfy customer needs. Having eighty percent of the RFP process in a standard format is more efficient than creating new RFP documents each time. Instead, they treat ISO as a badge to pass tenders.

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities. Pa Goldbeck, Strategic Performance Manager, and Mary Niichel-Hegwood, Procurement Administrator, participated in an outreach event called “Meet the Buyers”, one of many vendor engagement outreach events the City is doing.

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Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Among them are aggregators that bring together buyers and sellers. They host requests for bids and tenders from buyers and allow vendors to submit bids to multiple organizations. Private vendor network solutions are often part of larger systems that cover vendor registration, documentation, RFPs, audit history and more.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is an update on the national collaborative frameworks and contracts we offer to public sector buyers in Scotland. Revised Pricing Schedules have been uploaded within the Framework Agreement documentation, including full terms & conditions available from the Knowledge Hub. More updates will follow in Q1 of 2024.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Relatedly, the Slovak Government stated that despite containing explicit references to the tendering of the construction of the stadium, the State aid Decision cannot preempt a fresh assessment of the compliance of this legal structure with EU procurement rules. To my mind, it did so implicitly, which explains paragraph 8 of its Decision SA.46530.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is an update on the national collaborative frameworks and contracts we offer to public sector buyers in Scotland. Revised Pricing Schedules have been uploaded within the Framework Agreement documentation, including full terms & conditions available from the Knowledge Hub. More updates will follow in Q1 of 2024.

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Bonfire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The team at Smartsheet has put together this summary of the basic government construction tender process: Bid Solicitation: The government buyer seeks bids and provides a package of material with drawings, specifications, and other scope documents. Bid Submission: Builders/contractors submit bids by a deadline.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There are specific dashboards that analyze prices on the central e-catalog , medical procurement , buyer evaluations , Energy Services Company (ESCO) procurement, or internal auditing practices. More than 16,000 buyers and suppliers have been trained to use the BI Prozorro module to improve the efficiency of their routine procurement tasks.

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In Indonesia, this document can be obtained through the website of the Directorate General of General Legal Administration, Ministry of Law and Human Rights at ahu.go.id (requires registration with ID and a fee). This system can be used to assess whether a company meets the qualification requirements set by the buyer.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

For instance, a lack of clear, coherent tendering procedures or regulatory violations in the tender advertisement may affect the execution of government projects. Tracker Intelligence uses sophisticated procurement tools and integrates centralised systems, which decreases the time and effort needed for buyers and suppliers.

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The Procurement School

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Including the contract or the form of agreement in the bid document allows bidders to understand the proposed contract and decide if they want to submit a bid. Under contract A/B the bid document is an offer and the bidder is accepting the offer by submitting a compliant bid. A best practice is to document, document, document.

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