How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I am delighted to present to How to Crack a Nut readers an outline of my recently published book Framework Agreements, Supplier Lists and Other Public Procurement Tools: Purchasing Uncertain or Indefinite Requirements (Hart Publishing, 2023).

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Small businesses struggle to understand how to bid for public contracts and put time aside to apply to this market, especially as they normally don’t have someone dedicated to that tasks,” highlights Cristian Sosa, Vice President of Paraguayan business association ASEPY that supports smaller businesses.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Fragmented and inconsistent auditing practices across the decentralized government system have impeded effective oversight. They measured several improvements in the public complaints handling process.

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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 Most often the fee is about 0.3%

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

In India, according to the Ministry of Finance General Financial Rules (2017), all procuring authorities are responsible and accountable for ensuring transparency, fairness, equality, competition, and appeal rights in contracting. Use unique standardised IDs for organisations—both buyers and suppliers—in addition to their names.

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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. Fewer than 300 MSMEs participate in a procurement market worth almost US$3 billion annually.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

We looked for others who had performed a similar matching, in order to compare and validate our matches, and found the matching performed by ProZorro , the central public procurement system of Ukraine, which was consistent with ours. The post Using AI for green procurement appeared first on Open Contracting Partnership.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 1, 2016

Study the Public Procurement Rules Most public procurement organizations are governed by a legal framework (procurement rules) consisting of a procurement law or regulation (sometimes called “the Act”). As a public procurement practitioner you are also a public servant.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Almost a decade after its inception, Ukraine’s Prozorro system remains at the forefront of procurement transformation and innovation. Results: More than 30,000 buyers, suppliers, and other users each year analyze Ukraine’s public procurement market daily, with a total volume of UAH 917 billion (~$24 billion) in 2023.

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