Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 4, 2025

Private sector exhibitors will include Athlon, Bumblebee EV, Ogilvie Construction, Robertson Facilities Management, and Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. appeared first on Public Procurement and Property. Buyers will be on their stands ready to answer suppliers questions and discuss their pipeline of work.

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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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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

As a result, the procurement software offered to public companies has been able to live in parallel with the private market; its evolution has been very focused on compliance with public procurement regulations. As a salesperson, the complexity of public procurement may seem daunting.

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The Procurement School

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I asked a search engine ‘What is the difference between Morals and Ethics?’ The public procurement world is relatively small, and it seems everyone knows everyone, so reputations are important especially if you are just starting out in the profession. Mind1(1) ‘Ethics deals with right or wrong conduct. The risk is high.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

So looking back, we’ve published our Annual Ministerial Report on Procurement Activity in Scotland for 2021-2022, again, demonstrating the power of procurement. Highlights include over £16 billion of public procurement spend on goods and services, which is up £1.5

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

Oversees all City procurement processing, monitoring, bids, solicitations, addenda, administration, clarifications, modification, compliance, negotiations, changing conditions, coordination of legal review, terminations, and purchase orders. Provides training and technical guidance as needed.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But according to Kunnummal, to achieve true supply chain resilience and maintain it over the long-term, processes must emphasize speed and transparency, and that requires leveraging platform-driven workflows that complement and standardize investments in process re-engineering.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. Public procurement is key to this endeavor because public institutions and state enterprises must procure vast amounts of goods, services, and works to do their jobs.

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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. The platform was co-developed by OCP and the business community together with the government. And how could we reach those entrepreneurs?

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. They currently service 30 clients in Latin America.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

And then looking further ahead, early next year we’ll be launching the new civil engineering framework, along with a dynamic purchasing system framework which will really support the construction sectors. The post Our third Scottish Procurement vlog of 2023 with Nick Ford appeared first on Public Procurement and Property.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A section of particular interest in the response refers to ‘Ensuring AI best practice in the public sector’ (at 21-22), which makes direct reference to the use of public procurement and the exercise of public sector buying power as a regulatory lever.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Results: A year after the new procurement law was passed, the public procurement agency (DNCP) is using machine-learning to identify tenders that are most likely to be awarded to smaller businesses. Firstly, they gathered the three key public procurement actors in the same team and aligned on the same vision.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Civil Engineering Framework (Scotland) Following a successful period of collaboration with construction industry bodies and the public sector, Scottish Government has established its very first Civil Engineering Framework (25 March 2024 to 24 March 2028). There are now as at June 2024, 22 supported businesses listed on the DPS.

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The Procurement School

AUGUST 21, 2024

This leaves the more complex technology or infrastructure projects to be better managed by internal operational and engineering staff. These procurements can still invite external procurement consultants to assist, on an as and when required basis. The balance between savings and values needs to be part of the conversation.

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The Procurement School

JULY 24, 2023

Many levels of government have developed performance expectations for their construction-related procurements, but perhaps not so much for their services contracts. Effective Management of Contractor Performance in Public Procurement In public procurement, ensuring contractors deliver as promised is a challenge many organizations face.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This, in turn, opens the door to powerful analytics engines and AI-fueled applications that can answer increasingly complex questions by pulling data from more than one source or transaction. Given these needs, let’s think back to the current state of public procurement technology. Frankly, they are struggling.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

And then looking further ahead, early next year we’ll be launching the new civil engineering framework, along with a dynamic purchasing system framework which will really support the construction sectors. We’ll also be appointing a digital partner who will help us shape our future Eprocurement landscape. More comms to follow on this!

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The DPS is available to all Scottish public bodies including third sector bodies. Civil Engineering DPS (Scotland) – in development The Civil Engineering DPS will be for any civils projects up to £5m and will complement the Civils Framework. Evaluations are now complete.

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ivalua

MAY 17, 2023

With the support of technology, procurement is well-positioned to help organizations adapt to today’s uncertain world,” he added. With its strategic advantage, procurement is poised to be the driving engine in our collective journey towards success!

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There seemed to be some recognition of the need for more State intervention through regulation, for more regulatory control of standard-setting, and for more attention to be paid to testing and evaluation in the procurement context. Public procurement is an opportunity to put into practice how we will evaluate and use technology.’

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

“We want to make a concerted effort to collaborate and help smaller companies, disadvantaged companies, minority companies, or whomever, become more aware and understand that doing business with the city should not be an overwhelming task,” commented Tom Vlach, Deputy City Engineer. An example of the ION initiative at work.

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Bonfire

MARCH 24, 2022

Coming from the vendor side, I knew our eProcurement platform had the potential to transform sourcing and purchasing in the public sector. Before joining the team, I was a consulting engineer for a small firm and part of my job was submitting RFX responses to the public sector. That’s right, I was on the vendor side!

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Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 31, 2025

CivicDataLab analyzed Assams public procurement data to estimate the share of green public procurement (GPP). GPP refers to procurement that incorporates climate and environmental goals. CivicDataLab developed a methodology to identify and measure green public procurement using tender titles.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Scottish Government Civil Engineering Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for projects up to £5 million can now be used by buyers to issue calls for competition. We have worked with internal and external stakeholders on the development of this collaborative DPS for use across the Scottish public sector.

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Public Procurement Intl

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Chris Yukins prepared a recorded briefing for Stevens Institute of Technology’s Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) – Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC) Research Council Meeting on November 13, 2024.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 19, 2025

Where Ill be taking a look back at some of the recent developments and a quick look forward at what’s coming up across the public procurement community. First up, the Minister for Public Finance, Ivan McKee, recently brought together the leadership of public bodies, elected and operational leadership of Local Government.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Kigali is the center of Africa’s public procurement community this week. In time for this year’s Africa Public Procurement Network conference, hosted by Rwanda’s Public Procurement Authority (RPPA), the agency has developed a new open contracting portal that allows anyone to access data on government contracts dating back to 2016.

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Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Energo Engineering Projects Limited (TRF) , Perkins Eastman Architects DPC v. One needs to only consider the judgment in Lombardi Engineering v. The SC held that such clauses cast justifiable doubts on the independence and impartiality of arbitral tribunals. ECI-SPIC-SMO-MCML (JV) ( COREI) (discussed here , here and here ).

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Import and Trade Remedies

JANUARY 10, 2025

Another non-tariff tool is through legislation: a recent draft regulation mandates local rules to favour local production by allowing local products to be listed at 20% lower than the price compared to foreign products in public procurement contracts. with non-U.S. origin or products exported to China from a non-U.S. tariffs.

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