Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

The purpose of this updated guidance is to support implementation of FWF, the Scottish Government’s policy for driving high quality fair work and workforce diversity across the labour market in Scotland by providing more detailed practical guidance. This replaces the previous Best Practice Guidance and Toolkit published in 2018.

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Tendersinfo

MARCH 24, 2021

Procurement Evaluation- The final phase includes activities like Audit, Evaluation, Contract Award, and Feedback. Even though there is no such general rule to win a contract but when you take each contract individually there is a commonality that prevails in tenders across various regions and sectors.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Value: Smart Spending, Not Just Cheap Deals It’s not just about the lowest priceit’s about quality, long-term savings, and corporate social responsibility. Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. It outlines pricing, service quality and other key details.

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Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Their performance is crucial to achieving your financial, performance and quality objectives, and a poor supplier creates risks for everything from budget overruns to missed schedules and liability lawsuits. They host requests for bids and tenders from buyers and allow vendors to submit bids to multiple organizations.

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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. AI EVALUATIONS I am absolutely eavesdropping at this point and think: “now there’s a terrible idea!” Was it simply the evaluation question?

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Following these principles will allow for public sector entities to make informed decisions which will drive competition and the most advantageous combination of cost, quality and sustainability. How Transparency is Ensured in Procurement Transparency is achieved through open contract notices, public tenders, and clear evaluation criteria.

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Mercell

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

His interest and research is in public and private electronic tendering with a focus on the most economically advantageous tender calculation methods. Please note that “tender” is the European term for a “solicitation” ABSTRACT. Choosing the best bid is a central step in any tendering process.

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The procurement agency has now established a dedicated helpdesk and increased the diversity of its planning and evaluation committees in the process and the hope is that the percentages of women-owned businesses participating will rise further as trust and training increases.

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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

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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European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2012

22 Similarly, the contracting authority is not under an obligation to provide an unsuccessful tenderer, upon written request from it, with a full copy of the evaluation report (see order of 20 September 2011 in Case C‑561/10 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission, paragraph 25).

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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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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Integrity All tender documents must have clear and dependable information free of bias. Efficiency A quality procurement process will take place as efficiently as possible. What Is Tendering When working with public sector contracts, you will hear the terms “tender” or “tendering.”

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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. A Request for Tender (RFT) is used for low complexity / price only solicitations for MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operations) such as construction, office equipment and routine maintenance.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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. Often prices fall, says Diegues, when a government only holds an annual tender and the products are ordered in large volumes. “As

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Mercell

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The awarded contract worth € 2,4 million was a result of an extensive European tendering procedure which took almost 1 year. The awarding criteria was 60% on quality and 40% on price. It underlines our leadership in the domain of designing and developing public tendering solutions in Europe.

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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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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

​ Suppliers told the NAO that high bid costs, lack of confidence in evaluation and a lack of feedback had detered them from bidding on future Government contracts. Improve the quality of information Government departments submit on contracts.

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How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In this regard, it is noteworthy that the AI Act entrusts the Commission (and specifically the EU’s AI Office) with the task of “ evaluating and promoting the convergence of best practices in public procurement procedures in relation to AI systems ” [Article 62(3)(d) EU AI Act ]. If so, what is to be done? proof-of-concept).

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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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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

and which in a procurement context would have been dealt with pre-contract, eg in the context of technical specifications and/or tender evaluation). The drafting notes are clear that … while parties often refer to ‘best practice’ or ‘good industry practice’, these standards can be difficult to apply in developing industry.

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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 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). Whichever way this goes, this puts the public buyer in a position of rule-taker.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The report stresses this issue: ‘ common or standard metrics do not yet exist within industry for the evaluation of [algorithmic systems]. With ‘AI quality’ capturing all the problematic issues mentioned above (and, notably, AI performance), the CCS AI DPS is highly problematic.

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European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 17, 2012

For instance, some recent case law on the duty to provide reasons under each of the specific adminsitrative procedures that govern contract tendering and trademark registration shows what, in my view, is rather a contradiction.

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

With the Tracker Intelligence tender alerts feature, you can set up real-time alerts tailored to your industry, so youre always in the know. Cracking The Code: Winning More Tenders With Smarter Bidding Bidding isnt just about filling out formsits about playing to win. The secret? Thats the power of real-time procurement intelligence.

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A companys procurement track record is needed to evaluate their experience and qualifications in working on a project. Opentender.net offers some more accessible company information in the form of company administrator names and a track record of previous procurement procedures won.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Only about 20 percent of the total procurement data is readily available and searchable at the EU level through the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) portal. The PPDS uses AWS Cloud infrastructure and services to create an EU-level platform providing access to comprehensive, high-quality public procurement data.

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The Procurement School

MARCH 27, 2025

If it is material or product, and I only want one evaluation criteria to be used, which is the lowest bidder, I issue a Request for Quote (RFQ) or Request for Tender (RFT). Quality of cleaning services and products shall meet the Government of Alberta Standards of Workmanship. Here is how I determine the right one.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There are specific dashboards that analyze prices on the central e-catalog , medical procurement , buyer evaluations , Energy Services Company (ESCO) procurement, or internal auditing practices. Prioritize your data It is crucial not to attempt to use all the data from the procurement system, but rather to focus on high-quality data.

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