Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Challenge: Uganda’s public procurement authorities lack adequate resources and manpower to monitor many major contractors across the country’s more than 100 districts, leading to abandoned projects, missing deliverables and time and cost overruns. So we only know that something is going wrong over one year later.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s an appropriate workplace for the woman spearheading efforts to increase transparency and oversight of public spending in Rwanda, by digitalizing the platform running the country’s public procurement and professionalizing its workforce and processes. Now, when you click on “submit invoice”, the documents have to be provided.

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Telles.eu

APRIL 18, 2023

Albert has already done a deep dive into the Commission's recent Communication on the Public Procurement Data Space , so for those of you that are yet to get acquainted with the Communication his blogpost is probably the best starting point. As for me, I will take a bird's eye view on the document.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MAY 9, 2024

We have reached one year since the launch of the Public Procurement Strategy for Scotland (PPSfS). The strategy provides a clear vision and focused direction, supporting the whole Scottish public procurement community to align, to collaborate and to deliver positive outcomes with real impacts for the people of Scotland.

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Magnus Legal

MAY 27, 2022

In this article we show you how and when a supplier can request access to the documents in a public procurement process.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 5, 2024

As ever, we like to bring a goal-driven perspective to public procurement. While there is already some useful general guidance on procuring AI , in our series, we’ll dive deeper into these questions and best practices, discuss some of the details, and share practical tools from the community. Open Opps and Bidhive ).

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The development of the SME and Third Sector Procurement Action Plan, as well as industry feedback, have led us to consider the accessibility of guidance and the importance of signposting.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Public procurement is the organized process of acquiring goods , works and services by public sector organizations, usually through contracts. What is Procurement Legal and Regulatory Framework? Usually, the national procurement law of a country originates from the legislature.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This year, we hosted a large number of workshops for all public sector buyers on the Single Procurement Document (SPD) module within Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). Bidders will use their SPD response to indicate whether their organisations meet the requirements to participate in the procurement exercise.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Government expenditure through public procurement is essential since it ensures that there are contracts available to be bid in a fair, open, and competitive manner. Having a solid understanding of public procurement principles enables procurement professionals and suppliers to confidently navigate public sector procurement.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When the government purchases goods and services from private businesses, the process is known as public procurement. Public procurement matters because it boosts growth, investment, and jobs. In short, public procurement allows local businesses to serve their communities and taxpayers well.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 6, 2024

Thanks to a small grant from Schmidt Futures , we had the opportunity to experiment with applying artificial intelligence technologies to green public procurement. The goal is to increase the understanding of AI in public procurement – by discussing the key decisions we had to make about our approach.

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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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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Earlier in 2023 we hosted a series of workshops for all public sector buyers on the Single Procurement Document (SPD) module within Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). Following the huge uptake in interest, we have decided to host another series of these workshops over coming months.

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ivalua

JANUARY 12, 2023

As public procurement teams face increasing pressure to improve efficiency while upholding compliance and transparency, it’s essential that they have the right strategies in place. After all, how can you streamline procurement processes without sacrificing your standards? Processes and Compliance. Scalability.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 1, 2016

Introduction Many of us begin working as newly appointed public procurement practitioners with no idea of what to do or where to start. Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that to quickly achieve proficiency in public procurement management, there are seven things you need to do.

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Mercell

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

To underline the date, the Digital Transformation of Public Procurement Conference was held in Lisbon, Portugal, where representatives from public agencies across Europe gathered in regard to the digital transformation.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Earlier in 2023 we hosted a series of workshops for all public sector buyers on the Single Procurement Document (SPD) module within Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). Following the huge uptake in interest, we have decided to host another series of these workshops over coming months.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But these businesses rarely take part in public procurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. The bidding process was also restructured to lower the barriers for such businesses to register and submit bids.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

More often than not, public procurement of technology is viewed as non-transparent, uncompetitive, poorly planned, inefficient, costly, and having high failure rates. From healthcare management and social safety net technology to managing vaccine sign-ups during the pandemic , governments simply need to buy IT better.

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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A long road to implementation The journey to the Acts implementation started over 5 years ago with the Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement in December 2020. The Procurement Bill was introduced in the House of Lords in May 2022, receiving Royal Assent on 26 October 2023.

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European Law: Public Procurement

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Public authorities wishing to procure such products should do so in accordance with article 23 of the public procurement directive (Directive 2004/18/EC) for Eco-products and in accordance with article 26 for Fair Trade products. According to Advocate General Kokott they are. But does her reasoning make sense? 78.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

AUGUST 2, 2014

Given that procurement is a step by step process, it is better to use checklists rather than rely on your memory to ensure all the steps are covered. Types of public procurement checklists As a beginner, you may wonder how you will be able to develop checklists and on what. Have you used checklists before? Leave a comment.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 28, 2024

We have published the Scottish Government’s Procurement Strategy 2024 to 2028, which sets out how we will use our spend and influence to promote a green, inclusive and just economic recovery. The strategy has been developed to align with, and support delivery of, the Public Procurement Strategy for Scotland.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 21, 2015

The public procurement process is often delayed for different reasons. Such delays may damage the Procuring Entity ’s reputation and are a waste of scarce public resources; additionally, contracts are not awarded on time and this results in poor delivery of public goods and services.

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The Procurement School

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

They worked very hard to ensure the export documentation for all the products was correct including the stuffing in the crate and the crate itself. There are several guidelines, directives and documentation that outline ethical behaviour for the public sector. On a global perspective, ethics may be different. The risk is high.

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Whilst the Independent Review looks back at the past 20 years, we are always looking to the future to drive forward the power of procurement. Earlier this year in April, we published the first-ever Public Procurement Strategy for Scotland.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The Prebases module now simplifies the administrative tasks of the 90 spending units in Mexico City by strengthening market studies and obtaining direct information from suppliers, experts, and citizens.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MAY 7, 2024

The Handbook has been developed in collaboration with stakeholders from across the Scottish public procurement landscape as well as policy experts within the Scottish Government. Please take the time to read and familiarise yourself with the updated Procurement Policy Handbook.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

The app’s comprehensive database of procurement appeals sources data from the Prozorro public procurement system, as well as decisions on complaints made to the Antimonopoly Committee, and investigations by the State Audit Service. They also help maintain the private sector’s trust in public procurement.

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Telles.eu

JULY 3, 2023

A couple of caveats here though: I'm a lot less comfortable discussing state aid than I am public procurement since my expertise is in the latter. Let's start with what is in the tender documentation, shall we? Tender documentation The object of the contract is to purchase 117 sets and a maintenance shed for them.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MAY 2, 2024

Case Study 2 Scottish Government’s Heat in Buildings National Scheme was one of the first invitation to tenders to use the new Single Procurement Document question 4C.7, 7, requiring tenderers to include a climate change plan as part of the selection process.

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Scottish Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

SPD Module The SPD or Single Procurement Document Module has been updated based on your feedback. Retirement of the SPD Word Document Please remember that from 1 April 2024 the Microsoft Word version of the Single Procurement Document (SPD) will no longer be supported or updated by Scottish Government.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On 13 November 2023, the UK Government published guidance setting out its ambitions for innovation procurement under the new Procurement Act 2023 (not yet in force, of which you can read a summary here). This further expands on the ambitions underpinning the Transforming Public Procurement project that started after Brexit.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Additional background information in the form of resource documents have been developed for each example to support those users who would like a ‘deeper dive’ into the Sustainability Test issues. The resource documents are available from the Case Studies and other resources page.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The standard templates enable Buyers to easily create consistent tender documentation and allows Suppliers to save and reuse tender responses. All opportunities are first advertised on Public Contracts Scotland (PCS). appeared first on Public Procurement and Property. under the Sign In button.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

Therefore, following discussions at the ISF EU Hackathon last year, we wondered if AI could assist us in identifying green requirements in real procurement documents based on a predefined list of recommended green requirements. It is regularly procured across Europe and its green requirements are well documented by the EU.

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