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. Firstly, they gathered the three key public procurement actors in the same team and aligned on the same vision.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. Public procurement is key to this endeavor because public institutions and state enterprises must procure vast amounts of goods, services, and works to do their jobs.

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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.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Civil Engineering Framework (Scotland) Following a successful period of collaboration with construction industry bodies and the public sector, Scottish Government has established its very first Civil Engineering Framework (25 March 2024 to 24 March 2028). There are now as at June 2024, 22 supported businesses listed on the DPS.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Meet the Buyer North, Meet the Buyer South, ProcureX and the National Procurement Conference, along with the GO Awards! And then looking further ahead, early next year we’ll be launching the new civil engineering framework, along with a dynamic purchasing system framework which will really support the construction sectors.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

They are also responsible for the procurement of innovation. This is an update on the national collaborative frameworks and contracts we offer to public sector buyers in Scotland. Further information and a buyers guide can be found here. The DPS is available to all Scottish public bodies including third sector bodies.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

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. The reforms also helped increase ownership of procurement by different city departments.

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Bonfire

MARCH 24, 2022

Coming from the vendor side, I knew our eProcurement platform had the potential to transform sourcing and purchasing in the public sector. Before joining the team, I was a consulting engineer for a small firm and part of my job was submitting RFX responses to the public sector. That’s right, I was on the vendor side!

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Scottish Government Civil Engineering Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for projects up to £5 million can now be used by buyers to issue calls for competition. We have worked with internal and external stakeholders on the development of this collaborative DPS for use across the Scottish public sector.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 19, 2025

Where Ill be taking a look back at some of the recent developments and a quick look forward at what’s coming up across the public procurement community. First up, the Minister for Public Finance, Ivan McKee, recently brought together the leadership of public bodies, elected and operational leadership of Local Government.

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