Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2024

Private sector tender platforms and tender databases are specialised digital systems that provide businesses with a wide range of access to tender opportunities within the private sector. These platforms then collate all industry tenders to enable companies to search, filter, and track relevant contracts quickly.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2024

Though private and public sector tenders may share similarities, there are key differences between each of them that can make things challenging for business owners who are not fully prepared or equipped with the necessary knowledge or resources.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

One such channel is through tender opportunities that provide a formal way for businesses to compete for security deals. The Tracker Intelligence platform helps organisations identify and bid for tenders in a wide range of sectors. Types of Security Tenders There are various types of security contracts available.

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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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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

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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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As we’ll discuss, tender contracts are becoming an increasingly viable option for businesses to attract new suppliers and contracts. However, many businesses may not know where to turn when it comes to tender contracts. Public sector tendering contracts have many benefits. Are You Ready to Utilise Tender Contracts?

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 4, 2025

Traditional procurement approaches prioritised lowest price, which led to unintended consequences like accepting bids of lower quality, a lesser performance record or that did not adequately allow buyers to consider equity, sustainability or socio-economic objectives like creating local jobs.

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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 further expands on the ambitions underpinning the Transforming Public Procurement project that started after Brexit.

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How to Crack a Nut

MAY 8, 2024

AI, meaning, embeddings, and ‘content in context’ The OCP introduction helpfully addresses this issue in relation to an example of ‘sentence similarity’, where the researchers are looking for phrases that are alike in tender notices and predefined green criteria, and therefore want to use AI to compare sentences and assign them a similarity score.

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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. in 2020 to 59.7%

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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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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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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 6, 2023

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard.

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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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Tendersinfo

JUNE 4, 2021

Here we have listed out few insights about e tendering business that can help you make the right bid. 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.

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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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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. million per annum on the Supply of Natural Gas.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This regulatory technique simply seeks to allow public buyers to ensure compliance with the EU AI Act by cascading the relevant obligations and requirements down to tech providers (largely on a back to back basis). Much more is needed than mere reliance on the model AI clauses. This has been heavily criticised in a recent open letter.

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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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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. In the beginning], looking at and monitoring the processes was a voluntary initiative,” says ChileCompra’s Director, Verónica Valle.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

The simplified procurement process worked for tech and focused on outcomes, so the government became a knowledgeable buyer of technology. It should be simple to build digital platforms that offer people reliable, clear ways to access government services such as healthcare, business registration, and welfare payments. Digital Marketplace.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

They also have to change private and public tender, spend analysis coordination, and how to approach market leads. Changes with Private Tender It’s safe to say that private tender hasn’t seen many changes. However, potential contracts that go out to tender are seeing slower processing.

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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. Often prices fall, says Diegues, when a government only holds an annual tender and the products are ordered in large volumes. “As

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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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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 24, 2023

Let’s imagine that A, a party with several existing FTAs with third countries covering procurement, manages to negotiate the first FTA signed by B liberalising the latter’s procurement markets. It could seem that economic operators from A would have preferential access to B’s markets over any other economic operators (other than B’s, of course).

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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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Tracker Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

The Advantages of Public Sector Contracts Tendering for government contracts can unlock amazing opportunities for your business. Government procurement frameworks allow buyers to select suppliers and set terms and conditions for a set period of time. Sometimes, the buyer never needs to request services.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

Use unique standardised IDs for all tender announcements and contract-award notices to ensure that they can be linked. Use unique standardised IDs for organisations—both buyers and suppliers—in addition to their names. Collect information on more details of the tender process and in standardised formats (e.g.,

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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.

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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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Naomi Clews Consultancy

AUGUST 3, 2023

​Have you applied to NHS England, NHS buyers, but had no success? NHS Procurement Consultants Do you want to sell to the NHS? Do you have a great NHS product or NHS service, NHS customers will benefit from? Do you wish there was an NHS procurement expert you could talk to about how to do business with the NHS?

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We analyse data points from World Bank-funded development aid tenders over 12 years in >100 developing countries, and observe the heterogeneous effects of a 2003 anti-corruption reform aimed at increasing oversight and opening up competition.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This is particularly problematic for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), which often need more resources to participate in complex, bureaucratic tender processes dominated by a few more prominent competitors. As a result, the UK public sector may be missing out on SMEs’ innovation and flexibility.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Download Explainer For example, if we have all the call for tenders but cannot easily match them with contract awards, this means we cannot construct key red flags. If we lack codes for suppliers and buyers, we cannot build indicators of supplier and buyer risk.

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