The Procurement School
JANUARY 22, 2024
It can lead to a bid dispute or the procurement award being overturned. Communication The project plan for high value, complex or critical operational procurement includes a comms plan to increase vendor interest in the procurement. The latter is a potential issue as it is viewed as being bias.
Tracker Intelligence
JULY 20, 2022
But beyond the financial rewards, what does your business stand to gain from getting involved in public procurement with the government? And how can you stand apart from the competition to win government procurement contracts in the first place? The popularity of government procurement contracts has persisted ever since.
How to Crack a Nut
APRIL 4, 2023
Some of DRCF’s findings in the AI procurement report are astonishing, and should attract significant attention. The report is not specifically about public procurement of AI, but its content is relevant to assessing the conditions surrounding the acquisition of AI by the public sector. This is extremely worrying.
The Procurement School
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Vendors would not trust the Director; fellow procurement professionals would treat the Director differently and there would be a possibility of being sued by the disgruntled compliant bidders. For example, a Buyer was tasked with ordering scientific equipment and lab supplies for a university in Africa. The money was sent.
Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Public procurement constitutes about one-third of government spending or 13 trillion USD per year. Corruption in public procurement can lead to: 1) Overpriced public procurement contracts contributing to larger budget deficits. It is highly vulnerable to corruption with estimates of losses amounting to 10-20%.
ivalua
MARCH 5, 2020
Sometimes action can be taken by the buyer that either does not affect the supplier or just requires their agreement. Putting a simple clause in your standard contract saying, “no slavery please” does not require anything other than the supplier to say “yes”.
Inter-American Development Bank
MARCH 9, 2023
It is estimated that less than one percent of the $10 trillion spent annually on global public procurement is awarded to women-owned businesses. [1] 1] There are different restrictions that explain this low participation of women-led companies in the awarding of public procurement contracts.
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