Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The key aim of our own supported businesses Dynamic Purchase System is to provide Scottish public sector and third sector bodies with a clear path to purchase goods and services from supported businesses. A really good and enjoyable event. million per annum on the Supply of Natural Gas.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Public sector procurement relies heavily on framework agreements as a streamlined purchasing tool for goods and services. These agreements define terms, conditions and price for goods and services and allow authorities to procure without having to re-run lengthy tender processes.

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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. Subcontracting Subcontracting opportunities are a good way to start if you are new to the tendering business. Tie-up with big players ensure regular flow of work and helps to venture into newer markets.

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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. Or how could buyers minimize the very real risk of greenwashing?

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Government procurement refers to the purchase of common goods, works and services by government agencies, usually from private sector suppliers. The Advantages of Public Sector Contracts Tendering for government contracts can unlock amazing opportunities for your business. Sometimes, the buyer never needs to request services.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

AUGUST 3, 2023

​Have you applied to NHS England, NHS buyers, but had no success? Naomi Clews has 30 years purchasing and supply chain management knowledge, experience and skills, backed up by relevant professional qualifications. NHS Procurement Consultants Do you want to sell to the NHS?

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It is fueled by feedback from entrepreneurs, helping to mitigate barriers to entry and streamline the purchasing processes. Some of the most notable issues that emerged from our conversations with buyers included the lack of authority to curb cases of misconduct and the lack of resources for effectively designing and executing purchases.

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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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Mercell

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Negometrix will deliver the software solution, that will be used by all public authorities such as cities, provinces, ministries, hospitals, utilities and others for purchasing goods, services and supplies completely electronically. It underlines our leadership in the domain of designing and developing public tendering solutions in Europe.

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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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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

– Actions on the products and services purchased. 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.

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Bonfire

MARCH 29, 2022

Crown corporations purchase a variety of goods and services, from professional services to technology to general goods. If the amount is over the threshold, sourcing is led by the procurement team, whether through a public bid, NOI, or limited tendering option. The end goal is to drive purchase prices down for the buyer.

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Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Long before you make a purchase decision, you must create the right structure for vendor relationships with your procurement organization. Among them are aggregators that bring together buyers and sellers. They host requests for bids and tenders from buyers and allow vendors to submit bids to multiple organizations.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

Yet, many governments have not introduced policies and procedures for buying greener and even where it is possible to use green criteria for purchasing, many procurement officers are unsure of how to include them. In the Dominican Republic, only 290 purchases could be analyzed.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of the year-long project, PKP Energetyka will implement the modules facilitating the registration of Contracts, e-Catalogs, Tender Management, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and finally, Invoice handling. The key goals are not only the safety or optimization and acceleration of the Procurement processes as such.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

New strategies included implementing an electronic bidding platform, piloting approaches to vendor outreach for high-priority purchases, and incorporating bonus point questions for sustainability and equity in all their requests for proposals (RFPs). The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities.

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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). An article published in Kazakhstan by Gulbarshyn Karabalina and Svetlana Garkusha prompted the social services department of the Mangystau Region to use a competitive tender for the first time in years.

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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?’,

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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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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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 will use a filtering process, based on i) type of works; ii) location; & iii) project value to generate a tender list for each competition.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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 will use a filtering process, based on i) type of works; ii) location; & iii) project value to generate a tender list for each competition.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Slovak Government decided not to purchase the stadium and it instead challenged the compatibility with EU law of the State aid package due to a fundamental breach of procurement law. Once the stadium was built, NFŠ exercised the put option. This is not what the ECJ wrote in its Judgment.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

District Court for the Southern District of New York where the court reached seemingly conflicting conclusions on whether buyers that purchased certain cryptocurrencies on secondary trading platforms had a reasonable expectation of profit, which would make the sales “investment contracts” subject to U.S. federal securities laws.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

This ensures transparency and encourages innovation, because as providers introduce new services and products, they become automatically purchasable under the framework agreement. From there, the buyer can define the specific requirements for the solution and move to a request for a quotation to build the solution.

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Tracker Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

El Salvador has accepted Bitcoin as legal tender across the country. To be named as such, a digital currency should also be useable to pay for services and purchase goods. From here on out, the variety of use cases depends entirely on buyer and seller preferences. Well, there are solid arguments for and against the concept.

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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. The secret?

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Identify Similar Procurements The third step is to search for similar purchases through opentender.net (or by accessing the official e-procurement platform directly). This system can be used to assess whether a company meets the qualification requirements set by the buyer. This step is useful when monitoring construction procurement.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Public procurement—the process where public authorities like government departments or local councils purchase goods or services from companies—is a vital economic driver in Europe, accounting for more than 13 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

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The Procurement School

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The issuer can decide to accept the proposed change byway of an addendum or leave the contract as tendered. Many contracts contain an ‘option to extend at the buyers option’ and performance management is an effective tool to determining if one wants to exercise the extension. and Manage the Contract – Buyandsell.gc.ca

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