Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 1, 2024

Access to data: most documents they needed were available online, but you had to know the contract number, says the team. They check the availability and quality of constructed bike lanes, particularly in major metropolitan areas using OpenStreetMaps regularly updated via crowdsourcing.

Budget 136

Budget Transportation Transportation Bidder 136

Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

A weightage-based criterion helps the procurement team to select the best out of the lot that gives the best value in terms of Cost, Quality, and experience. It takes into account components like Cost, Quality, and Technicality of various bid proposals while deciding a contract award.

Procurement Team 52

Procurement Team Evaluation Tender Procurement 52

Select GCR

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Select GCR clients who have been waiting to submit their documents are being scheduled for their final submission this week. This streamlined procurement method can significantly reduce the time and resources required to secure government contracts, allowing 8(a) firms to focus on delivering high-quality services. BREAKING NEWS!

Strategic Planning 105

Strategic Planning Participation Government Contracts Sustainability 105

Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Capability Capability is one area where we did not quite achieve our strategy targets, and in the final strategy average, 53% of partners reported a very high increase in their capacity to do open contracting work, coming in under our 60% target.

E-procurement 76

E-procurement Public Procurement Capacity Procurement 76

Select GCR

JULY 9, 2024

An RFI is a formal document issued by an organization for gathering information about the capabilities, products, and services of potential vendors. Read and Understand the RFI Document Thoroughly read the RFI document to understand the requirements, objectives, and specific questions or sections that need to be addressed.

Quality 52

Quality Supplier Evaluation Quality Management 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Local monitors, trained by CSOs, document shortcomings in the contract implementation via an app available on monitors’ smartphones or computers. Having formal arrangements through MoUs and building their capacity and understanding has led to good quality monitoring reports that are more actionable for us.”

Public Procurement 135

Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. If there is a good understanding of the number of potential bidders and their capacity this minimizes the requirement for market analysis.

Procurement 52

Procurement Market Analysis Bidder Public Procurement 52

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Customers may select the best offer from submitted tenders based on quality, price, and terms thanks to its transparency, equity, and efficiency of the tender process. This method decreases the number of bids to control and evaluate, concentrating on the quality rather than quantity. What is a Tender Document in Construction?

Tender 52

Tender Bidding Bidder Competitive Bidding 52

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Manufacturing For manufacturers burdened with variability and inefficiencies, use cases focused on computer vision and quality control introduce game-changing stability. Manufacturing use cases applying AWS CVAR technology target predictive quality by pinpointing anomalies and deviations from ideal parameters during each operation.

Retail 72

Retail Supply Chain Manufacturing Utilities 72

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 3, 2024

Flex agents refer to in-office call center staff that can assist customers over the phone when needed, but can also handle other non-call-center tasks such as documentation and filing reports during slower periods.

Transportation 81

Transportation Transportation Telecommunication Efficiency 81

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While there is no simple way of measuring the impact of all civic monitoring activities, some impressive achievements have been documented. Firstly, Kazakhstan publishes relatively high-quality, real-time open contracting data. The quality of Kazakhstan’s data publication stands out in the region.

Procurement 120

Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 120

The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These reactions can lead to strict risk management and purchasing policies with overly complicated bid documents and onerous requirements that are imposing on potential SME bidders. Thankfully, there are methods that encourage procurement simplification and SME participation while maintaining a balance between risk, quality, and standards.

Participation 52

Participation Procurement Strategies Procurement Buyers 52

Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2025

Additionally, suppliers must consider the submission requirements, which include specific documents and information that need to be provided when participating in a tender process. With tender alerts , smart filters, and user dashboards, teams can automate their workflow and spend more time preparing high-quality submissions.

Tender 52

Tender Bidding Supplier E-procurement 52

Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this capacity, I am dedicated to making a significant contribution to international arbitration, drawing upon my extensive experience to bolster AFSA’s position in the industry. Can you please tell us more about AFSA, its structure, users, and what sort of disputes it generally administers?

Efficiency 98

Efficiency Quality Demand Collaboration 98

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. Please note Saema’s disclaimer that “I am commercial practitioner and I am writing in a personal capacity. says a buyer. That seems more likely.

Bidder 52

Bidder Tender Buyers Bidding 52

The Procurement School

JULY 24, 2023

This meeting is an opportunity for all parties to discuss their expectations, which may uncover misalignments about scope, timelines, quality measures, etc. Document everything major that you agreed upon. This provides confirmation that you are on the same page, and documents what was discussed and agreed upon.

Management 52

Management Consulting Evaluation Public Procurement 52

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. Second, they sought to leverage Paraguay’s accessible, high quality open contracting data.

Procurement 62

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

ivalua

JUNE 12, 2020

The first is to enable collaboration indirectly, by freeing capacity through automation of operational activity and improving access to insights to better assess suppliers. The second area to focus on is enabling collaboration through technology, with 2 sub areas to consider. Technology can also directly enable improved collaboration.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Supplier Supply Chain Procurement 52

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The public sector procurement process is meant to guard against corruption, and all bids are supposed to be evaluated on predetermined criteria like quality, price and social value. It is a time-consuming and bureaucratic process with strict timelines and documentation requirements. Contract Awarding: Transparency vs.

Procurement 52

Procurement Tender Public Procurement Supplier 52

Inter-American Development Bank

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

High-quality data can pave the way for gaining better insights and facilitate the TA’s job of ensuring that companies pay what they owe. It also allows the creation of custom-made document templates and domain tables (Figure 1). These key factors can impact profitability and the types of taxes firms pay to governments.

Accountability 52

Accountability Data Electronics Balance 52

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

VIGIA is a unique initiative that allows entrepreneurs to easily find public procurement business opportunities in Paraguay, as well as provide real-time high-quality feedback about irregularities. It seemed ideal to have thousands of market expert eyes reviewing every tender document. What is VIGIA? VIGIA is more than a tool.

Tender 52

Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

In spite of such major policy developments, we still lack the specific and rigorous evidence on the impact of transparency interventions and which types of transparency matter for which actors to support desirable societal outcomes such as high quality public services, procedural justice or public sector integrity (Bauhr et al, 2019).

Bidder 40

Bidder Transparency Public Procurement Contract 40

The Procurement School

AUGUST 11, 2023

Part of the outcome for assessing efficiency is to determine the appropriate level of resources to support the function and the quality of the work, which becomes a benchmark. For example, moving from a manual process of issuing purchase orders and bid documents to an e-procurement system such as Ariba® or Euna Solutions.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Balance Procurement E-procurement 52

Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 20, 2024

However, amid various outreach efforts, my main priority is always to ensure that HKIAC’s case administration, arbitral appointment functions, and hearing services are consistently efficient and of top quality, as this is the only way to ensure that parties continue to place their trust in us. How is HKIAC addressing them?

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Innovation Leadership Capacity 52

ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

getting involved early on in the New Product Introduction ( NPI) cycle to ensure suppliers risk is being properly evaluated in production capacity and quality. There were a lot of common themes people discussed, such as: Getting a seat at the executive table as a key business stakeholder, and.

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Supplier Manufacturing Strategic Sourcing 40

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

However, given the public sector’s digital skills gap, there is no reason to believe that the limited knowledge and asymmetries of information documented in the AI procurement report are less acute for public buyers than private buyers. None of this features in the recently released White Paper ‘AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach’.

Procurement 52

Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The team at B2Gov, based in Argentina and made up of 19 people, offers clients the chance to boost their business capacities in the public procurement market, to understand the competitive dynamics of the market in advance, to conduct performance assessments and devise strategies to succeed in future opportunities.

Data 57

Data Public Procurement Tender Price 57

Inter-American Development Bank

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Among the main advantages of thematic bonds issuance, the document points out: Alignment of policies with contributions to sustainable objectives. The Platform has also facilitated the exchange of experiences among countries, strengthening the capacities of the region’s ministries in this area.

Finance 52

Finance Sustainability Price Budget 52

AWS Public Sector

MAY 9, 2024

the GPU memory capacity to run inference on a certain language model (GPU memory specifications can be found in the Amazon ECS Developer Guide ). Converting the weights to a smaller representation affects the quality of the LLM output. It is recommended to have about 1.5x It is important to note that you can quantize the model.

Data 78

Data Import Utilities Management 78

ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Hidden costs due to late deliveries or quality issues . Policies are often seen as administrative documents with no added value. Some companies create separate documents for the business versus procurement community considering their specific role and requirements in the P2P process. Over, early, and late payments .

Supplier 52

Supplier End to End Procurement Integration 52

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 24, 2024

The result is a backdrop ripe for disputes—and, notably, as various panellists highlighted, arbitration clauses are commonplace in the project documentation. But there will be more novel disputes too — for example, in relation to quality specification.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Demand Price Insurance 52

Federal News Network

APRIL 3, 2024

Is there any particular quality or characteristic that characterizes them? They need to document their decision making. What’s your sense of whether smaller and mid-sized companies have the compliance capacity, even if they want to do business with the federal government? Tom Temin And what about the DoD cases?

Supply Chain 53

Supply Chain Contract Management Government Government 53

American City & Country

AUGUST 19, 2024

Crossing multiple jurisdictions complicates efforts to address issues like flooding and water quality in this boundary-spanning watershed. Envision works to improve water quality and habitat, says partnership coordinator Joanna Ogburn, “and to do both of those things in a way that really meets the needs of surrounding communities.”

IT 86

IT Capacity Quality Import 86

FedScoop

JUNE 26, 2024

After releasing a FedRAMP roadmap in March and announcing a slew of advisory and governance boards , Mill said the GSA is currently working through a pair of pilot projects, adding to its technical talent capacity and finalizing an artificial intelligence task laid out by the White House in President Joe Biden’s October AI executive order.

Capacity 114

Capacity Import Quality Government 114

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 24, 2024

In this post, we explore how AWS can help agencies address the governance requirements outlined in M-2410 as public sector entities look to build internal capacity for AI. As agencies look to stand up their own governance teams in compliance with M-24-10, our documented best practices can help create scalable frameworks for internal success.

Government 80

Government Government Ethics Transparency 80

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2017, AWS India became the first global CSP in India to receive full empanelment for its cloud service offerings after the AWS Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region completed MeitY’s STQC (Standardization Testing and Quality Certification) audit. Examples include initiatives such as the development of Co-WIN , which has supported more than 2.20

E-auction 83

E-auction Government Government E-procurement 83

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

The agencies are required to provide timely public notice and plain-language documentation for any safety- or rights-impacting AI in use, preferably before the AI takes an action that impacts the individual. The agencies must also test the AI for real-world performance to ensure that it will work for its intended purpose.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Impact Assessment Procurement Innovation 52