Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

This guide examines the fundamentals of public procurement, including fairness, value for money, and transparency, and how they influence both ethical and effective procurement procedures. A transparent approach lowers procurement risk, prevents corruption, and fosters confidence between suppliers and public sector organisations.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

In other words, the AI PPN is not a ‘plug-and-play’ document setting out how to go about dealing with AI hallucinations and other risks in procurement. Second, there is the issue of tenderers using (generative) AI to write or design their tenders. Slightly simplifying, there are three broad areas of AI-procurement interaction.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 4, 2024

Throughout my career as a procurement practitioner, I have never seen bids submitted that are perfectly responsive to the evaluation criteria or requirements specified in the solicitation documents. Minor deviations are a subtle area that requires clear guidelines to ensure fairness and transparency.

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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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Procureware

APRIL 12, 2019

Most procurement software projects are focused on efficiency; however, transparency needs to have equal attention. Trust is the cornerstone of procurement and transparency builds trust. Making this information available to the public provides another level of transparency and emphasizes that the tender is open and fair.

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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.’ Therefore, that greater investment in expertise needs to be coupled with a culture change. 94 PA 2023). 48 and 46 PCR 2015).

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

ChileCompra has not only established a formal channel for bidders and citizens to report questionable contracts to authorities for the first time, it has also published the Observatory’s investigation reports and statistics on complaints from the public, making oversight of the procurement system fully transparent. “[In

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Results : The Clarity App is building trust among Ukrainian businesses that they can receive a fair decision for procurement appeals and fair competition without discrimination in tenders. Appeals are an important element of any procurement system, as they enable businesses to defend their rights to compete for and win tenders.

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VWV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Procurement Act 2023 (the Act) introduces a range of reforms aimed at simplifying and enhancing transparency in the procurement process, which should be good news for suppliers. Changes to the process for providing feedback on tenders and the standstill period. When does the Procurement Act take effect?

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The state government’s vision for public procurement is to have “a more transparent, all-inclusive, efficient, and effective procurement process that supports the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially women businesses,” says Odewale.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

AUGUST 24, 2021

About the project In recent years, publishing and analysing administrative data on government contracts and tenders has an increasing importance in evaluating government transparency, efficient public spending and measuring risk of corruption in public procurement. sole source procedure) and the winning bidders themselves (e.g.

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VWV

AUGUST 20, 2024

A comprehensive review of crucial guidance documents for navigating the procurement lifecycle under the new legislation. As part of the roll out of the new Procurement Act 2023 (the Act), the Cabinet Office is releasing a suite of 38 guidance documents. The guidance documents are being published on a regular basis.

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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. Transparency, equity, and efficient use of public money are all highly valued.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Transparency The government organisation must make the information on the process available to all stakeholders including suppliers, service producers, contractors, and the public. Furthermore, the government organisation must make all solicitation documents available at a reasonable price. There is one exception, though.

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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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VWV

AUGUST 29, 2024

A list of the relevant CPV codes can be found in the Contract or Tender Notice and supporting documentation. The total anticipated value of the framework must be advertised in the Contract or Tender Notice. It may seem obvious, but check that the framework is still active and has not been replaced by a newer version.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Step 3 Posting Once the procurement document is developed and approved it is posted online for bidders to respond. The presentation and all questions and answers are posted as an addendum in keeping with the public procurement tenets of open, fair and transparent. The evaluation process should be strictly followed and documented.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

To better understand the challenges small businesses face when bidding for public tenders, and complementary to its Lift impact accelerator project, the Open Contracting Partnership engaged in conversations with entrepreneurs, public officials, and civil society actors with a stake in improving the public procurement system.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. It establishes a robust methodology to explore what impacts can be measured and also explores the channels through which transparency is indeed impactful – e.g. who are the stakeholders and enablers that are the actual drivers of change using increased transparency.

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The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. Trade agreements require that the estimated procurement value be posted with the solicitation document. The estimated value also determines how long the document is posted for bidders to respond.

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VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The procurement rules seek to ensure public bodies adhere to fair and reasonable timetables and procedures, encourage open competition and transparency and deliver best value. Procurement has come under intense pressure as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. These are narrowly interpreted.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Differences from Previous Procurement Regulations TheProcurement Act 2023 reformpresents several key differences compared to theContracts Regulations 2015, concentrating on transparency, efficiency, and supplier governance.

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How to Crack a Nut

MAY 17, 2023

Džeina asked a few easy questions on the topic of her PhD research (tender clarifications). My research focuses on clarification of a submitted tender, but I am interested in many aspects of public procurement. The answers – and the ‘hallucinations’, that is, the glaring mistakes – and the tone are worth paying attention to.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

The vision is to go beyond supporting “just” a transparency and reporting portal to have a digital ecosystem that integrates real-time damage assessments, budgets, project planning, procurement and delivery. Community authorities also develop the project documentation, including cost estimates.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The UK’s Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) has published a report on Transparency in the procurement of algorithmic systems (for short, the ‘AI procurement report’). Some of DRCF’s findings in the AI procurement report are astonishing, and should attract significant attention.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Current, closed, and awarded bids can now be found online, increasing transparency throughout the process. The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities. Initially, the city piloted a bonus sustainability and equity question in all RFP documents, each worth one point.

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The Procurement School

MARCH 22, 2024

We sought to simplify the processes, the procurement documents, and examine the unnecessary barriers we within our systems. Yukon Government has used bid bonding as a risk mitigation tool on many procurements, particularly on construction-related tenders. Let’s take a look at an example that we have been working with: Bid Bonding.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

While the e-procurement system doesn’t include the quasi-governmental sector and sovereign wealth fund (which aren’t governed by the public procurement law) it provides full transparency on the general procurement market which accounts for at least a third of Kazakhstan’s public spending. million (~US$24,000) were returned to the budget.

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VWV

JANUARY 27, 2025

Updated your procurement documents to comply with the Acts requirements? Review and update your procurement documents to reflect the new terminology, processes and procurement specific questionnaire. Ensure you know what notices need to be published on Find a Tender and when. Its not too late to get everything in place!

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

These barriers should be dealt with if the aim is to guarantee that public funds are expended in a transparent, lawful, and efficient manner. For instance, a lack of clear, coherent tendering procedures or regulatory violations in the tender advertisement may affect the execution of government projects.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Rwanda’s Umucyo system (meaning “transparency” in Kinyarwanda) is recognized as one of the most successful e-government procurement projects in Africa. This allows users to trace procedures across the planning, tender, award and contracting stages of the procurement cycle and to conduct system-wide analysis.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A new case study we developed together with Transparency International Ukraine (TI Ukraine) examines how Prozorro’s data analytics tools have become an integral part of the work of more than 30,000 people across government, monitoring institutions, the private sector and civil society, even as the country grapples with Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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The Procurement School

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Including the contract or the form of agreement in the bid document allows bidders to understand the proposed contract and decide if they want to submit a bid. Under contract A/B the bid document is an offer and the bidder is accepting the offer by submitting a compliant bid. A best practice is to document, document, document.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Furthermore, the contracting authorities and entities are empowered to reflect, in the procurement documents, ‘the objective difference between the legal situation of those operators, on the one hand, and that of economic operators of the European Union and of third countries which have concluded such an agreement with the European Union’ (para.

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