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Why Malaysia needs a new public procurement law

Open Contracting Partnership

Among the reform areas identified was the country’s public procurement system. The strategy outlined in the NACP aimed to establish a dedicated public procurement law and revamp existing procurement practices.

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2024 – A year in review with the Public Procurement Group (PPG)

Scottish Government Procurement

As 2024 draws to a close, we take a look back at what has been achieved over the last year in Public Procurement in Scotland. We asked members of the Public Procurement Group (PPG) to summarise their sectors 2024 achievements. They show that the 16 billion of public procurement spend, we generated 13.8

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Revolutionizing public procurement in Uganda: the power of citizen contract monitoring

Open Contracting Partnership

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. About half of the projects reviewed are health and education contracts.

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Ransomware presents a growing threat to vulnerable local governments

American City & Country

Although they have key historic knowledge, they have not necessarily been trained and educated on the latest technologies and cyber-security threats. OMNIA Partners , who sponsors this page, offers a robust portfolio of cooperative contracts in the public procurement space.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The achievement Kazakhstan has seen a dramatic decline in the use of single-source procurement in recent years. In the general public procurement market (valued at around US$19 billion annually), direct awards have dropped from 81% of the value of all procedures in 2017 to 23.5% Let’s take a closer look at them.

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Who Are the Key Players in Public Procurement?

Tracker Intelligence

In the UK, public procurement is essential to providing high-quality public services. Companies wishing to work with public sector organisations must know who the key players in public procurement are.

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Webinar on Global Public Procurement Counsel – 29 June 2023

Public Procurement Intl

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