Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

One such channel is through tender opportunities that provide a formal way for businesses to compete for security deals. The Tracker Intelligence platform helps organisations identify and bid for tenders in a wide range of sectors. Types of Security Tenders There are various types of security contracts available.

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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

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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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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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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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. The system works by collecting public procurement data and structuring it in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format.

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Data Public Procurement Tender Price 57

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. Mission-focussed national AI tenders to support rapid adoption across de-centralised systems led by the mission delivery boards.

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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. billion), according to data from Prozorro’s public business intelligence model. billion (US$1.9 They also help maintain the private sector’s trust in public procurement.

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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. Quality Requirements : They describe the quality and specifications of the goods , services , or works required. Invitation to Bid : They formally invite potential bidders to submit their bids.

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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

MARCH 8, 2024

When given opportunities, these businesses excel in delivering quality and innovation. We focused on the plan, the data, and the purpose of what we want to achieve. Open data solutions such as CREDERE can help these businesses access the financial services they need in order to confidently bid on and deliver government contracts.

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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. to as little as 1.8%, depending on the calculation method and source data.

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Tendersinfo

JUNE 4, 2021

Here we have listed out few insights about e tendering business that can help you make the right bid. Subcontracting Subcontracting opportunities are a good way to start if you are new to the tendering business. Ask for Review Input and audits can assist you with recognizing shortcomings and in the end, transform them into qualities.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These agreements define terms, conditions and price for goods and services and allow authorities to procure without having to re-run lengthy tender processes. Working with one supplier under single-supplier systems guarantees constant quality and easier administration.

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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. It’s the same reason why a buyer might be wary of using AI to write invitations to tender. This seems draconian for the vast majority of tenders.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Without competitive bidding, prices go up, and the quality of goods and services languishes. This is particularly problematic for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), which often need more resources to participate in complex, bureaucratic tender processes dominated by a few more prominent competitors.

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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. Instead, we found that involving entrepreneurs’ knowledge could prevent issues in specific tender processes.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The project set out to build on the state’s existing transparency infrastructure, including an e-procurement portal that publishes structured open data according to the internationally recognized Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS ). Understanding the needs The first step for EKBPP was to understand who their providers were.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We want to unlock its power to improve economic inclusion and sustainability, rebuild integrity and trust, and deliver the quality public services that we all deserve. Solutions that are user-friendly and that use data to measure and improve outcomes from procurement. Open contracting has been the gift that keeps giving.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

Contracts Finder ​ ​ The NAO found that Central Government does not take advantage of the data it collects to understand more about competition and gain further benefits. For example, in 2022, only 5 of 16 UK Government departments published a complete set of contract data.

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Framework Agreement Public Procurement Supplier Bidding 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).

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

This means a significant risk of low commitment rates and low-quality (and therefore unreliable) data. Decarbonization will generate a significant increase in the amount of data buyers must manage. To improve efficiency, quality, and data capitalization, the buyer must have digitized tools at their disposal.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The urgent need to stem these ills led to the first wave of reforms that saw an overhaul of colonial era and post-independence procurement structures in the form of Tender Boards that were characterized by centralized procurement, lack of transparency, outdated legal framework and weak dispute management mechanisms.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 70

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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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The clauses include a few substantive requirements implicit in the allocation of the respective obligations (eg on data or third party licences) but mostly refer to detailed schedules of which there is no default proposal, or to industry standards (and thus have this limitation in common with eg the EU’s model AI clauses).

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

It is one thing to make tenders public, and another to offer suppliers visibility into the end-to-end bid management process and final award decisions. This encourages more diverse participation and improves the quality of responses – and therefore creates value for the general public. Suppliers need bidding and contract transparency.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In recent years, the company has been consistently implementing advanced technological solutions, thus improving the quality, safety and effectiveness of its operations. Up until now, the orders and tenders of the company were frequently handled manually, which was time and labour intensive.

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

When it comes to estimation-based forecasting, Amrest has been able to capture some data, but they need to have the right tools in place to effectively utilize their data sets. Overall, their strategy must move toward data-driven decision-making to provide real-time information visibility. Part of the Solution.

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ivalua

MAY 11, 2021

Respondents to PwC’s survey from the Middle East region reported higher levels of investment than other regions in several digital transformation use cases, including data analysis and visualization, administrative task automation, supply chain traceability and smart sourcing. “On average, companies in this region plan to invest $1.5

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Importantly, the light version does not include default options in relation to quality management, conformity assessments, corrective actions, inscription in an AI register, or compliance and audit (some of which are also optional under the ‘demanding’ model). They need to be customized to each specific contractual context.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

Especially because, while the CCS AI DPS tries to address some issues, such as ethical risks (though the effectiveness of this can also be queried), it makes clear that ‘quality, price and cultural fit (including social value) can be assessed based on individual customer requirements’.

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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. Understanding how data is used and managed and any related risks.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These critical steps can streamline the tender process, and position your business for success in the public sector market. The platform is free to use and offers a clear view of available tenders across various sectors, making it an essential and accessible tool for suppliers seeking public sector opportunities.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

On a (trite) humoristic note: a first idea to slow any task down would be to leave its implementation to a cumbersome public tender procedure. Finally, specific requirements should limit the geographical scope where the AI tool provider is allowed to process data, especially personal and confidential data.

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Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Evaluation 59

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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