Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The public procurement agency improved access to information about upcoming opportunities for women-led and small businesses and conducted training to improve their capacity to respond. The agency also eliminated or reduced fees for access to bidding documents, bid security requirements, and bid submissions.

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

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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. The media organization ProTenge, which exposed tenders to buy books and publish articles about the ex-President that were subsequently canceled. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Businesses must understand the key differences between the public and private procurement methods, regulations, and goals when c onsidering tender opportunities in either sector. Furthermore, private businesses have more flexibility in pursuing informal tendering procedures or direct negotiation with suppliers.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The team developed a three-pronged strategy: talk to MSMEs and build their capacity to bid on contracts; simplify the bidding process for smaller businesses; and use innovative technology to better measure and manage opportunities for small business vendors. and the total value awarded to MSMEs has remained steady.

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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. This allows data and documents at all stages of the contracting cycle to be disclosed according to a common data model.

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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. What is VIGIA?

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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. A more formal method is to issue a Request for Information (RFI).

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

The system is decentralized, with institutions having capacity in-house. Rwanda also introduced sanctions for delayed payments and addressed a common issue of suppliers not submitting all required documents. Now, when you click on “submit invoice”, the documents have to be provided. I’ve seen this argument used often.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

Community authorities also develop the project documentation, including cost estimates. Once the project is selected for funding, it can be tracked through the full implementation pipeline: developing procurement needs, tendering, choosing suppliers, construction, and auditing.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

In Slovakia, the data collection process is prone to error due to the several Call for tenders and Contract award publication form types that were also changed throughout the year (i.e. the same information is reported in very many different and changing formats). However, the average number of received bids increases by 0.5

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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’.

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Tracker Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2024

Introduction to Healthcare Tenders In today’s competitive healthcare environment, the ability to win and obtain large contracts through health tenders is crucial to the development of the industry. Understanding Health Tenders UK What Are Health Tenders?

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Tracker Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2024

Occupational Health Tenders The market for occupational health services is expanding globally, fueled by a growing emphasis on worker wellbeing and regulatory adherence. These tenders allow providers to provide basic services like medical screenings, on-site clinics, and workplace safety training.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the past, regions that were slow to ask for assistance were left behind, and authorities lacked the capacity to understand if spending meets the needs of the most vulnerable, or whether it is helping build resilience to cope with future floods. Download: CivicDataLab’s detailed documentation and open datasets. McGovern Foundation.

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Sending a purchase order or a response to an RFQ can constitute a contract, as well as a verbal agreement, so it is important to understand the five main elements that are required for a contract to be valid and a legally binding document. Capacity Capacity has to be present in a contract for it to be valid and it can take several forms.

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