Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Open contracting approach: The open contracting risk monitoring platform Opentender.net empowers auditors to prioritize which procedures to investigate, gather evidence and respond to public complaints more effectively. Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 4, 2025

As theOpen Contracting Partnership, we support transformational procurement reforms in over 50 countries. Expand and deepen market engagement, to ensure that tender requirements and terms of reference closely correspond to what the market can deliver, and what suppliers are well positioned to offer for the project at hand.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Introduction to Construction Tenders in the UK For companies that require tenders in order to obtain new contracts, construction tenders are particularly important in the UK. What Are Construction Tenders? Formal invitations to tender for construction projects are sent to companies and contractors.

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Tracker Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2024

Introduction to Project Management Consultancy Tenders In today’s ever-changing business landscape project management consultancy tenders have become more and more important. Participating in this competitive market requires strategic insight, as well as a deep comprehension of the tendering procedures.

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Tracker Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Find a Tender Service: Navigating UK Public Contracts The area of public sector tenders in the United Kingdom is complex but filled with opportunities. Such businesses can enter this area with the perfect platform offered by Tracker’s Find a Tender Service.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

With the increasing demand for security services, businesses that provide such services must look for ways to secure contracts and expand their business. One such channel is through tender opportunities that provide a formal way for businesses to compete for security deals. What is Tracker Intelligence?

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 19, 2023

So it was important to set the bar high and to ensure our vision of procurement as a modern, digital open data-driven public service was strongly reflected. We are pleased to see “equitable” used to describe the tendering processes which implies moving beyond lowest price to foster economic inclusion.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

As we’ll discuss, tender contracts are becoming an increasingly viable option for businesses to attract new suppliers and contracts. However, many businesses may not know where to turn when it comes to tender contracts. Recent data shows that more than one-third of businesses were short of workers overall.

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How to Crack a Nut

JANUARY 13, 2025

Consistent use of a framework for how to source AI - whether to build in-house, buy, or run innovation challenges - that evolves over time, given data, capability, industry contexts and evaluation of whats worked. In that case, the contracting authority is advised to acquire licenced rights. This will require: 34. 41 PA23 and Sch.5

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 11, 2025

An ICW investigation in 2021 revealed potential fraud risks in the construction of a faith-based community center in the province of South Sulawesi, with a contract value of about US$1 million (Rp. The only information that could be used for analysis was the contract implementation schedule which ended in December 2020. 19 billion).

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. Participating in public contracting represents a massive opportunity for businesses, but one that many fail to seize. They currently service 30 clients in Latin America.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society. in 2020 to 59.7%

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

The UK public sector procurement market is a complex and time-consuming route for suppliers looking to win government and corporate contracts. However, the advent of specialised platforms has made it easier for businesses to get access to the key contract opportunities. That’s where contract and tender platforms come in.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

In a previous blog , we explored some common problems data scientists encounter when collecting and analyzing data. Some of these challenges are made more explicit in our most recent report, “India’s Federal Procurement Data Infrastructure: Observations and Recommendations.” CSV, JSON, XML) to improve usability.

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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. With data excellence as one of the pillars of their mission, TenderNed has been working on creating better data within the Dutch government for several years.

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How to Crack a Nut

MAY 8, 2024

James McKinney and Volodymyr Tarnay of the Open Contracting Partnership have published ‘ A gentle introduction to applying AI in procurement ’. It is a very accessible and helpful primer on some of the most salient issues to be considered when exploring the possibility of using AI to extract insights from procurement big data.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Challenge: In Ukraine, a lack of machine-readable data about procurement appeals made it difficult for government suppliers to defend their rights and interests. In 2023, Ukraine awarded 270,000 public contracts through competitive procedures , worth 555 billion UAH ($15.2 billion (US$1.9

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The government has promoted public participation in procurement monitoring, which is vital to combating corruption and improving efficiency, but few independent civil society organizations and individuals had the information, skills and influence to track contracting effectively. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

Myth 1: Women-led and -owned businesses cannot successfully deliver government contracts Women are excelling in business. We focused on the plan, the data, and the purpose of what we want to achieve. Five years later, after implementing open contracting reforms women’s businesses have diversified.

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Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I think the bulk of my critique has stood the text of time: since direct awards had (rightly) a negative connotation in the country, the new procedure of preliminary consultations allowed for the obfuscation of illegal practices and the data associated with non-transparent procurement. Personal data on base.gov.pt

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2025

Imagine thisyoure drowning in a sea of public tenders, scrolling endlessly through Contracts Finder, hoping to spot that one golden opportunity before your competitors do. The truth is, winning relevant contracts isnt just about finding themits about seeing them fast and knowing which ones are actually worth your time.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The guidance also indicates that ‘ Greater transparency of procurement data will make it easier to see what approaches have been successful and encourage use of those approaches more widely across the public sector.’ This is an important issue that may require further discussion in a separate post. 48 and 46 PCR 2015). 48 and 46 PCR 2015).

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Malaysia must set out clear principles for all public procurement procedures in a single piece of overarching legislation and create a robust and comprehensive public procurement law rooted in open contracting principles – putting transparency, competition, and efficiency at the forefront.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Open data is often lauded as a magic pill for anti-corruption: reveal what’s going on, inform the public, and, presto, government will become more accountable. Oh, and big data just means bigger gains, right? But even the very first stage — collecting the data — is much harder than it seems.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Chile’s public procurement agency, ChileCompra, created its “ Public Contracting Observatory ” service in 2012 to detect, prevent, and fix irregularities in government contracting procedures. The cases initially highlighted on the campaign website met certain criteria, explains the head of the Observatory, Juan Cristóbal Moreno.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

government in April 2024 issued a final rule calling for contracting officials to plan to procure sustainable and services “to the maximum extent practicable.” Planning The first strategy looks to procurement planning. Brazil has used this strategy aggressively in its efforts to implement “green procurement,” and the U.S. In the U.S.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 5, 2024

We recently published a blog post that provides a gentle introduction to AI in procurement, illustrating the thinking and work that needs to go into even relatively straightforward processes such as comparing green criteria for public contracts against real tender notices. Open Opps and Bidhive ).

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 6, 2024

This is relevant to many use cases: measuring the adoption of green criteria by different governments and parts of government, determining whether green criteria affect the success of the contracting process, checking whether a “green” procurement actually uses green criteria (greenwashing), and so on.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

Procurement’s role in supporting modern, digital services for governments is the subject of a report from the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Open Contracting Partnership (OCP). In 2019, ChileCompra redesigned how to buy computers, data services, and software development. They reduced contracts from six years to nine months.

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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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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We have released an update in November 2019 on the datasets collected on development projects, public tenders, and contracts for three major donor agencies: the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and EuropeAid.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. Open contracting data about general procurement procedures is published on the governments platform goszakup.gov.kz. in 2021 to 4.2

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ivalua

MAY 31, 2022

Supplier data can give your procurement team valuable information to make future cost and time-saving decisions. This crucial data will give your team the tools to enact effective collaboration on critical issues–such as risk mitigation, performance improvement, corrective actions and innovation programs.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

AUGUST 24, 2021

The FCDO-funded (formerly DFID) project “ Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting ” releases the contracting datasets collected from national public procurement portals in 10 low and middle income countries: Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Paraguay, Uganda and Uruguay. tax haven registration).

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Resource: Civic monitoring of urban renewal projects: A guide from Buenos Aires (Spanish) The organization, Asociacin Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia ( ACIJ), developed a methodology to examine the budgets and public contracts associated with these projects and to gauge residents experiences with the new infrastructure and services.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MAY 9, 2024

The plan will aim to consider how procurements are conducted and contracts are developed to reduce barriers and enable participation for SMEs and third sector organisations. As the strategy continues to embed and we start to consider ways to measure its impact, where possible will use information and data that is already collated.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.

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