Scottish Government Procurement

JULY 11, 2024

We have published a Construction Policy Note (CPN) to provide notification of new guidance which details an alternative method of determining the price score in tender assessments – the Graduated Pricing Mechanism (GPM). What is the GPM? The principle is that the lowest price is awarded the highest score (i.e.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Standard Bidding Documents , also known as tender documents or solicitation documents , are essential tools in the procurement process. These documents communicate the intent of the procurement entity to enter into contracts with suppliers, contractors, or consultants for the provision of goods , services , or works.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

It was drafted in consultation with representatives from the public, private sector, third sector and included the Fair Work Convention. Updated guidance on Fair Work First (FWF) in Procurement is now available. This replaces the previous Best Practice Guidance and Toolkit published in 2018.

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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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Public Contracting Institute

JANUARY 3, 2024

DOD shipping offices collect offers, known as “tenders” to ship household goods (“HHG”) from transportation providers such as Platinum, The government uses the available tenders to place orders via the issuance of a government bill of lading (“GBL”) which memorialize the government’s acceptance of an active tender to ship HHGs.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

These frameworks have led to big efficiency wins: the traditional tender procedures take between four months and one year to complete while the framework procedure takes between four and six weeks on average. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It is rather more plausible for the tender and contract to seek to bind the technology provider to practices and procedures seeking to ensure high levels of cyber security (by reference to some relevant metrics, where they are available), as well as protocols and mechanisms to anticipate and react to any (potential) security breaches.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Using product demonstrations alongside written tenders will help buyers get a proper appreciation of solutions being offered by suppliers. Procurers will be able to better communicate their particular problem to suppliers and work with them to come up with potential solutions. 48 and 46 PCR 2015). 48 and 46 PCR 2015). 30 PCR 2015).

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Fact checked by Eddie Regan, BiP Solutions Principal Procurement Consultant Most remote workers don’t want to return to the office , so it’s essential to consider the work environment changes that businesses must adapt to. Changes with Private Tender It’s safe to say that private tender hasn’t seen many changes.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Integrity All tender documents must have clear and dependable information free of bias. What Is Tendering When working with public sector contracts, you will hear the terms “tender” or “tendering.” ” A tender refers o the actual contract.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2024

Government procurement is estimated to be responsible for 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions , according to a report by Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum. The same study found that about 40% of all emissions related to government procurement could be mitigated for less than US$15 per ton of CO 2 emissions.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

OCTOBER 5, 2023

If you want an RFP process that reduces stress, makes RFP turn around time quicker and improves your chances of RFP success, management consultant Naomi Clews provides her 10 step plan to designing an efficient RFP process. Instead, they treat ISO as a badge to pass tenders. Why are written processes important? Find out more here.

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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). Learn more at www.ivalua.com.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Construction tenders may include a mandatory site visit where attendance is required in order to bid. The evaluation can be simple, such as tenders which are price only, or complex which includes technical criteria, pricing and sometimes an interview or demonstration. Step 4 Evaluation Once the procurement closes bids are evaluated.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

Consulting services, textiles, food and cleaning supplies, rounded out the list of the five categories with the most women-led companies. The latest survey carried out by the procurement agency shows that training, consulting and advertising companies lead the ranking.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The agency consulted women-led business owners, members of civil society, government line agencies, the legislature and the governor’s office to understand what changes were needed and to ensure they were implemented successfully. This resulted in an updated Procurement Manual ratified by the State Executive Council in May 2023.

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VWV

JANUARY 4, 2021

For example, procurement notices will be published on the Find a Tender service , rather than the Official Journal of the European Union. The UK Government recently launched a consultation on reforming the procurement rules to speed up and simplify procurement processes, so keep any eye out for more significant changes later this year!

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

To make this environment, we added functionality that allows users to match buyer and supplier technologies, attribute IT solutions to tenders, and understand the tech architecture of the London public sector for the first time. Boroughs need guidance on innovative procurement practices and making tenders be more SME-friendly.

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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. OptiBuy , the consulting agency will be responsible for the implementation.

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The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A Request for Tender (RFT) is used for low complexity / price only solicitations for MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) such as construction, office equipment and routine maintenance. A preapproved contingency minimizes the time required to seek additional funding should the decision be made to award the procurement.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Open consultative approaches and the use of digital tools and open data have been critical to promoting and tracking the switch to sustainable procurements, as Kęstutis Kazulis, principal advisor for sustainable procurement to LPPO told us when we first wrote about the reform last year. One without the other one would have been ineffective.”

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Tendersinfo

DECEMBER 24, 2020

COVID has dominated all over the last 12 months and caused significant changes in the tendering business like many others. Bid Managers, Contractors and Companies were faced with an unprecedented series of events while the government had put a standstill on various projects and development ventures.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 1, 2024

a Chilean telecommunications company owned by the private investment fund Novator Partners (“ Wom “), won a public tender for the deployment of 5G technology in Chile. For the reasons mentioned below, the case confirms Chile’s long-standing pro-arbitration stance. Background to the Dispute In 2021, Wom S.A.,

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The Procurement School

MAY 27, 2024

Collective agreements offer some predictability, but lump sum tendered bids often must guess the future and buffer to avoid loss. Procurement service providers work closely with public sector procurement consultants to streamline processes, maintain transparency, and uphold ethical standards.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Background The underlying arbitration involved a claim by Pascale (the builder) against Tesseract (the engineering consultant) for breach of contract, negligence and misleading or deceptive conduct in respect of building works in the State of South Australia. Tesseract’s principal defence denied liability entirely.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Fact checked by Eddie Regan, BiP Solutions Principal Procurement Consultant Brexit has dramatically changed the UK’s import and export-dynamic. As we’ll discuss, tender contracts are becoming an increasingly viable option for businesses to attract new suppliers and contracts. Are You Ready to Utilise Tender Contracts?

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 21, 2015

They are also needed to prepare the solicitation (bidding/ tender ) documents. The approving authority may be different levels of tender boards such as central, ministerial and departmental. Delays caused by tender boards and donors are difficult to control.

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The Procurement School

MARCH 22, 2024

Yukon Government has used bid bonding as a risk mitigation tool on many procurements, particularly on construction-related tenders. Procurement service providers work closely with public sector procurement consultants to streamline processes, maintain transparency, and uphold ethical standards.

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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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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

These developed requirements can then be embedded into public contracts by reference, and thus protect public buyers from vendor standard cherry-picking, as well as providing a clear benchmark against which to assess tenders.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

It should be noted that the proposal runs in parallel to the also de-regulatory approach underpinning the December 2020 green paper Transforming Public Procurement [on which see here , here , and here , while we wait for the Government’s response to the public consultation].

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

Of the 235 large contracts recorded on the public contracts database ' Find a Tender ' between January 2021 and January 2023, 20% of contracts that used open competition only received one bid. About the author Naomi Clews Naomi Clews is a management consultant and owner of procurement advisory firm Naomi Clews Consultancy Limited.

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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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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

My company, Andes, participated in the project as a technical consultant on technology infrastructure and cloud adoption. Rather than contract a single, large vendor offering the lowest bid price, the public tender aimed to select multiple specialist teams, from multiple vendors, each offering important capabilities and knowledge.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Essentially, if a contractor or any affiliate cannot certify that it does not have any contracts for consulting services (defined as “advisory and assistance services” under Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 2.101) with a covered foreign entity, the company must maintain a Conflict of Interest Mitigation Plan.

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Bonfire

MARCH 29, 2022

If the amount is over the threshold, sourcing is led by the procurement team, whether through a public bid, NOI, or limited tendering option. Folks shared how their teams are doubling down on these priorities, including: Engaging consultants. Developing policies and strategies. Creating guidelines and tools (e.g., Enhancing RFPs (e.g.,

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