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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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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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. A really good and enjoyable event. Please pass this on and encourage more of your suppliers to complete the survey.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Competition in public procurement is not limited to financial competition; it is a key source of innovation and guarantees the fair allocation of public contracts. If not resolved quickly, these issues could lead to higher costs, less innovation and missed opportunities to improve public services.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Oversight and recommendations to government bodies The Observatory plays an educational role, demonstrating good practices to buyers and suppliers as well as strategies to prevent poor practices. million relates to open tendering processes that were awarded, US$17.7 Of these, US$19.5

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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). Please visit our website: www.cks-consulting.com/en. About Punch Powertrain.

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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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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. Supplier variety and market innovation are fostered by this competitive process.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Conversely, some Procurement departments have discovered that non-strategic suppliers, or even tier two suppliers, offer them innovative solutions to alleviate the shortage. It knows that its most innovative suppliers are sometimes start-ups which spend amount classifies as tail spend. To whom will they offer their latest innovation?

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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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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Orsay (France), September 02, 2019 – Viparis has chosen e-Procurement software vendor Ivalua and Consulting firm CKS to optimize the management of supplier relations, source-to-contract (purchase orders, calls for tender and contracts), expense analysis and measurement of Procurement performance.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Nitrous has been working with the Greater London Authority and the London Office of Technology & Innovation (LOTI) to provide greater access to local government for SMEs through innovative procurement. Boroughs need guidance on innovative procurement practices and making tenders be more SME-friendly.

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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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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 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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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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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

NHS commissioning takes place in a largely in-house environment where NHS buyers commission services primarily from NHS suppliers, but also with mixed private participation by both for-profit and third sector providers.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

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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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

Flexitime, a lack meetings in the boardroom, and none of that crucial office environment that inevitably fuels creativity and innovation – it’s surely a given that it will fail? Well, not necessarily. Think of the standard 9-5 in an office space. How much of those eight hours is filled with casual chit-chat?

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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). So OCP supported Vitaliy Trenkenshu and his Datanomix team to prepare for the prestigious World Commerce & Contracting Innovation & Excellence Awards in 2021.

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

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. Integrate carbon criteria in calls for tenders. Part 3: Involve Capture Supplier Innovation.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

Following the same rhetoric of transformation, the PPDS Communication now stresses that ‘ Integrated data combined with the use of state-of the-art and emerging analytics technologies will not only transform public procurement, but also give new and valuable insights to public buyers, policy-makers, businesses and interested citizens alike ‘ (at 2).

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

However, they could probably leverage their great buyers in a better way by having proper data delivered to them upfront and allowing them to identify the most strategic new projects. By bridging the gaps, Amrest could even start the tendering process earlier with a wider range of suppliers. Part of the Solution.

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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. Marketing Services (2022) This new Category A Framework commenced on 1 September 2022.

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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. Marketing Services (2022) This new Category A Framework commenced on 1 September 2022.

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The media organization ProTenge, which exposed tenders to buy books and publish articles about the ex-President that were subsequently canceled. Civic procurement monitoring in Kazakhstan at a glance Members of Kun Jarygy have monitored 1,222 tenders worth KZT 346 billion (~US$725 million) in the coalition’s first year.

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

With the Tracker Intelligence tender alerts feature, you can set up real-time alerts tailored to your industry, so youre always in the know. Getting listed on Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS) and framework agreements means buyers can award contracts directly to pre-approved suppliers. What are buyers looking for beyond just price?

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Almost a decade after its inception, Ukraine’s Prozorro system remains at the forefront of procurement transformation and innovation. 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.

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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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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Only about 20 percent of the total procurement data is readily available and searchable at the EU level through the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) portal. Public buyers have access to a comprehensive knowledge base to improve their procurement processes and outcomes.

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University of Bristol

MAY 26, 2023

by Albert Sanchez-Graells , Professor of Economic Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Law and Innovation (University of Bristol Law School). On 29 March 2023, the UK Government published its much awaited policy paper ‘ AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach ’ (the ‘AI White Paper’). The answer is a resounding ‘no’.

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