Procureware

APRIL 12, 2019

Most procurement software projects are focused on efficiency; however, transparency needs to have equal attention. Trust is the cornerstone of procurement and transparency builds trust. This practice ensures that information is up to date and shifts responsibility to suppliers. Below is an example from the Chicago RTA.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

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. More recently, it canceled a RD$1.3

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The Softly Spark

AUGUST 8, 2024

This misleading practice of making false green claims has left many buyers skeptical of products touted as eco-friendly. However, staying silent about your eco-friendly practices is not the solution – consumers crave transparency! Be transparent and qualify your green claims to maintain trust. Burt’s Bees, Inc.)

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We only have three regional offices and hundreds of buyers. As Einer Fogh of GIZ Uganda highlights, “there is a vibrant civil society in Uganda, with many organizations working on transparency and anticorruption. Audits are post-mortems after things have gone bad. We needed eyes out there.

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Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

Select GCR

MARCH 4, 2025

billion across various sectors, highlighting the importance of staying informed about federal contracting data to find government contracts and government contract bids. A comprehensive and up-to-date profile increases your chances of being noticed by government buyers.

Government Contracts 52

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Feedback from municipal hearings suggests that information on procurement and public sector staff recruitment is already open, leading to questions about the need for further transparency. Another issue is the lack of insight into the process leading up to public procurement.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These agreements take on even greater importance under the Procurement Act 2023, with greater emphasis on transparency, competition and sustainability. Common concerns include transparency, fairness, especially when small suppliers feel dominated by big competitors in multi supplier frameworks. What Are Framework Agreements?

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

It was impossible to analyze the decisions of Ukraine’s procurement review body, the Antimonopoly Committee, in a comprehensive way to understand when the outcome favored the buyer and when it favored the vendor. percentage points more than the average success rate for appeals in Prozorro (72%), excluding Clarity App buyers.

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Procurement Tender Buyers Public Procurement 67

ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As teams worked with suppliers through creative solutions, it became obvious that transparency and supplier risk management are essential components to maintain stability during crises like these. Procurement technology can also help businesses improve supplier relationships and enhance communication between buyers and suppliers.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has published a report on Transparency in the procurement of algorithmic systems (for short, the ‘AI procurement report’). Second, the report does not make explicit whether the mix of buyers from which it draws evidence includes public as well as private buyers.

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Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Government procurement should be transparent and efficient. With troves of information available, the marketplace should be a breeding ground for data innovation, revealing opportunities. But that effort results in transparency and insight that is like a cheat code, an unfair advantage for those who subscribe to GovSpend.

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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. We have written elsewhere about the institutional and political challenges that can hinder the transparency –> accountability transformation.

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Data Public Procurement Procurement Buyers 52

Select GCR

MAY 7, 2024

SAM.gov fosters collaboration and transparency by serving as a communication platform between government agencies and vendors. Overall, SAM.gov empowers stakeholders with the tools and information necessary for thorough market research, transparency, and efficiency in procurement.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

In India, according to the Ministry of Finance General Financial Rules (2017), all procuring authorities are responsible and accountable for ensuring transparency, fairness, equality, competition, and appeal rights in contracting. Use unique standardised IDs for organisations—both buyers and suppliers—in addition to their names.

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Data Procurement Tender Public Procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This pro-supplier/pro-customer orientation prompted Gisele’s question/challenge, which is whether ‘there is EVER an opportunity for government (customer-buyer) to be better able to negotiate the final language with clauses like these in order to weigh the trade offs between interests?’, The SCL AI clause (C1.15) reads as follows: C1.15

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Supplier Transparency Negotiation Procurement 75

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. It establishes a robust methodology to explore what impacts can be measured and also explores the channels through which transparency is indeed impactful – e.g. who are the stakeholders and enablers that are the actual drivers of change using increased transparency.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

ChileCompra has not only established a formal channel for bidders and citizens to report questionable contracts to authorities for the first time, it has also published the Observatory’s investigation reports and statistics on complaints from the public, making oversight of the procurement system fully transparent. “[In

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How to Crack a Nut

MAY 8, 2024

We can represent text and other information as numerical values with vector embeddings. A vector is a list of numbers that, in the context of AI, helps us express the meaning of information and its relationship to other information. In this post, I venture some thoughts on meaning, AI, and public procurement big data.

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Procurement Tender Import Public Procurement 75

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GTI-R/2020:02, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. Each of the dashboards allows users to undertake their own analysis in these areas by comparing sectors, regions, years, and buyer types. Fazekas, M., Dávid-Barret, E., Basdevant, O. It is highly vulnerable to corruption with estimates of losses amounting to 10-20%.

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Corruption E-procurement Public Procurement Contract 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As part of the UK’s 2050 net zero pledges, listed UK businesses must release detailed public plans to meet climate change targets by 2023 However, this shift towards accountability and transparency needs to include the supply chain. However, many feel they are not equipped with the right procurement tools to make this a reality. About Ivalua.

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The Softly Spark

JANUARY 13, 2025

Consumers today expect transparency, proof, and meaningful action. Communicate and Engage with Consumers Being transparent and honest about your commitment to sustainability is essential for effectively connecting with your environmentally conscious customers. Focus on resource sourcing, production methods, and labor conditions.

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Sustainability Transparency Retail Education 52

ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

Transparency, or ability to scale data, across an organization. This is where Source-to-Pay systems can help – by providing procurement teams with a system that centralizes information and ensures data quality meets a high standard. It’s not uncommon for direct materials procurement teams to capture information on sub-tier 1 suppliers.

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ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. To top it all off, extremely tight supply markets have further shifted negotiating leverage from buyers to suppliers. Even reducing costs often depends more on effective collaboration rather than negotiation in today’s market.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Limited transparency during the procurement package design and contract awards process often means that smaller suppliers are disadvantaged compared to well-established companies with prior knowledge and resources to navigate the system. Reducing administrative burdens for SMEs is another vital step in levelling the playing field.

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Public Procurement Procurement Tender Framework Agreement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We set up Open Contracting Partnership to be bold: we aren’t after just a bit more transparency of public contracts, we want to transform procurement to meet the urgent needs of our time. And they really own the outcomes from our collaboration, using open contracting information to drive better services and outcomes for their communities.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 89

Tracker Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

For all the information you need on the advantages of government procurement, just keep reading. Government contracting is governed by public procurement policy agreements that regulate procurement activities and ensure transparency and fair competition conditions in the government procurement process.

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Government Contracts Innovation Procurement Government 52

Select GCR

APRIL 26, 2024

Prepare to excel in government procurement with our strategic and informative program. One key aspect of our program is teaching you how to effectively nurture relationships with government buyers and prime contractors. How does the CSGMP assist in building relationships with government buyers and prime contractors?

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Extract Systems

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Land records agencies play a crucial role in documenting and safeguarding property ownership information. With Extract Systems, documents are scanned and indexed at lightning speed, making it easier for agency staff or constituents to locate and retrieve information.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2024

Due to frequent updates, alerts on bids, and comprehensive information about projects, these platforms help identify new opportunities quickly. It is known for its real-time alerts and in-depth market information. A good profile makes it easier for your clients to trust you, which will likely attract more buyers.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2022

Businesses must start looking to the supply chain to ensure this renewed focus on transparency and accountability. Over a third of suppliers say that improving their ability to share information (35%) and collaborate with buyers on improvements (35%) would significantly increase their ability to deliver on climate-focused targets.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Sustainability Supplier Collaboration 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Businesses must start looking to the supply chain to ensure this renewed focus on transparency and accountability. Over a third of suppliers say that improving their ability to share information (35%) and collaborate with buyers on improvements (35%) would significantly increase their ability to deliver on climate-focused targets.

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Select GCR

JULY 23, 2024

The SAM registration process involves creating an account on SAM.gov, obtaining a Unique Entity ID, and finalizing your SAM profile with accurate company information, which should be kept current through annual renewals and regular updates. The Benefits of Being Registered in SAM The benefits of SAM registration are multifaceted.

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Procureware

DECEMBER 29, 2017

With the new API, developers can pull information from ProcureWare or create information within ProcureWare through a simple interface. Invite unregistered bidders Particularly for infrequent types of procurement, like accounting software, buyers need to research possible vendors and invite them to respond to an RFP.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As part of the UK’s 2050 net zero pledges, listed UK businesses must release detailed public plans to meet climate change targets by 2023 However, this shift towards accountability and transparency needs to include the supply chain. However, many feel they are not equipped with the right procurement tools to make this a reality. About Ivalua.

Supplier 40

Supplier Supply Chain Buyers Sustainability 40

ivalua

JULY 8, 2020

Transparency, or ability to scale data, across an organization. This is where Source-to-Pay systems can help – by providing procurement teams with a system that centralizes information and ensures data quality meets a high standard. Some of these challenges include limited: . Financial, etc.).

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Key Takeaways SAM.gov registration is essential for government contracting, requiring businesses to provide detailed information and maintain compliance to access government business opportunities and to be considered for contracts. To thrive in federal contracting, having an active registration on SAM is non-negotiable.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Their process wasn’t friendly to new vendors, leading to low levels of competition and bidder diversity, and they didn’t have good data to inform further improvements. Current, closed, and awarded bids can now be found online, increasing transparency throughout the process. Des Moines bought its first electric garbage truck.

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