Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Construction Tenders Securing lucrative contracts in the dynamic engineering and construction industry requires an understanding of the tendering process. A formal call for bids on a project, known as a tender, initiates the bidding process among prospective contractors.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

government’s supplier base. contractors in the procurement proceedings, shall declare whether the participation of suppliers or contractors in the procurement proceedings is limited,” and any “such declaration may not later be altered.” Article 8, for example, warns the procuring agency, “when first soliciting the participation of.

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

The UK public sector procurement market is a complex and time-consuming route for suppliers looking to win government and corporate contracts. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the best platforms for finding public sector contracts in the UK to help procurement professionals, buyers and suppliers make the right decisions.

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Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

As a procurement manager, you know how important suppliers are to your organization. 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.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

A short video drawing out the key changes to the guidance is available here – Fair Work First – Update Video The Supplier Development Programme (SDP) provides free support in tendering to Scottish-based SMEs, supported businesses and third sector organisations through free training and events.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Standard Bidding Documents , also known as tender documents or solicitation documents , are essential tools in the procurement process. These documents communicate the intent of the procurement entity to enter into contracts with suppliers, contractors, or consultants for the provision of goods , services , or works.

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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. I am reading a leaflet for a contract management portal when I overhear a conversation between a buyer and a supplier. “I says a buyer.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Pre-negotiated terms are provided that reduce the complexity for contracting authorities in procurement whilst allowing suppliers to capture opportunities more efficiently. These agreements define terms, conditions and price for goods and services and allow authorities to procure without having to re-run lengthy tender processes.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Whether you’re a supplier trying to land your first contract, a business just getting into understanding government procurement, or a pro looking to stay on top of compliance, this glossary is your go-to guide. The contracting authority or government agency sets the rules, picks the best supplier, and ensures everything runs smoothly.

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Tendersinfo

MARCH 24, 2021

Procurement Implementation- It includes activities related to the acquisition, selection of suppliers, contract award, and other activities of contract administration. Procurement Evaluation- The final phase includes activities like Audit, Evaluation, Contract Award, and Feedback.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Having a solid understanding of public procurement principles enables procurement professionals and suppliers to confidently navigate public sector procurement. A transparent approach lowers procurement risk, prevents corruption, and fosters confidence between suppliers and public sector organisations.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The Importance of Competition in Public Procurement The essence of competition is to allow multiple suppliers to compete for a government contract under the same conditions so that the best value is achieved. Additionally, this lack of diversity in supply chains can lead to overreliance on a few select suppliers.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So far, AI has already obtained credible influence in the way public procurement tenders can be drafted and submitted. However, this technology has not yet registered a significant foothold when it comes to the evaluation process. The adjudicators or evaluators of a tender act as both gatekeepers on behalf of the 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. This article, which compares public and private procurement, gives suppliers the confidence to move in both markets.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This emphasises the importance of being on the right framework agreements for suppliers. For suppliers, securing a position on an essential public sector frameworks list is more important than ever. They enable suppliers to get consistent long-term business options that would have been practically credible without them.

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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. For example, the guidance note on Frameworks expressly permits directly awarding based on supplier rotation or highest rank.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Inclusive Opportunities: Public procurement can be a tool to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion by prioritising contracts with suppliers committed to these ideals. Suppliers in the economy are expected to reduce their carbon footprints and demonstrate effective means of maintaining green approaches.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Oversight and recommendations to government bodies The Observatory plays an educational role, demonstrating good practices to buyers and suppliers as well as strategies to prevent poor practices. million relates to open tendering processes that were awarded, US$17.7 Of these, US$19.5

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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. Most government institutions have a Supplier Database and it is important to get yourself registered in the respective portals to secure a free and fair chance to bid.

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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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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 22, 2024

They typically focus primarily on the pre-tendering and tendering phases, leaving a gap in guidance for the post-award phase. ” While there is a consensus that the procuring entity is responsible for contract administration , practical implementation and evaluation of this approach have been limited.

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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. These details should help contractors, service providers, and suppliers determine if they have the qualifications to compete for the contract.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Ivalua, a global leader in spend management today announced that Bahlsen, a leading supplier of sweet bakery products, has selected Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay (S2P) solution to digitalize its procurement processes. the company is one of the leading suppliers of sweet bakery products in Germany and across Europe.

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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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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

SCL AI Clauses The SCL AI clauses have a clear commercial orientation and are meant as a starting point for supplier-customer negotiations, which is reflected on the fact that the proposed clauses contain two options: (1) a ‘pro-supplier’ drafting based on off-the-shelf provision, and (2) a ‘pro-customer’ drafting based on a bespoke arrangement.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Five suppliers have been appointed, three of which are Scottish Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Work on the re-let has commenced and currently it is out to Tender. The planned start date for the new framework is 11 July 2024. Framework Public Bodies will be notified upon award. to £281.31

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

One significant step forward is the integration of environmental evaluations into our tendering process for all products. Also in line with our environmental initiatives, we’re actively collaborating with our top 100 suppliers to gather climate plans. Our message resounds with positivity and unwavering determination.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 21, 2015

Delay in Preparing Technical Specifications, Scope of Work or Terms of Reference Technical specifications , scope of work , and terms of reference are documents that describe what is needed, and should be clear enough to avoid confusing suppliers, contractors, service providers or the evaluation panel.

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Scottish Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In our analysis of recommendations from major digital reviews we have found three distinct themes relating to procurement and contract management.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

“Public buyers have the freedom to use the green criteria either as part of technical specifications, selection or award criteria, through contract implementation and through supplier qualification, for example by requiring an environmental management system certificate,” says Darius Vedrickas, Director the LPPO.

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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?

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The Procurement ClassRoom

OCTOBER 14, 2019

These documents are customized to define the terms and conditions of tendering for a particular procurement opportunity. Every system has standard bidding documents for goods , works and services which can be customized to address specific tendering needs. Contracts A contract is an agreement enforceable by law.

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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 modules of the system include publishing all tender opportunities, receiving and evaluating offers, digitally signing of offers and contracts, e-Ordering, e-Catalogues, e-Invoicing, e-Payment.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

By engaging all of the market, sharing information (in a way that does not favour particular suppliers) and asking the market for feedback, the NAO believe that UK Government departments can increase levels of competition in future procurements. The expected level of single bidders within UK government’s major markets was not assessed.

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Procureware

JANUARY 22, 2018

One of the most common questions I hear from procurement staff during implementation is, “how should the supplier bid responses be structured?” They want to know if they should create online forms or simply have suppliers upload bid documents. My answer is always “yes.” That typically gets a confused reaction.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

The Umucyo platform is used by 1194 government agencies down to district hospitals – an increase from just over 200 in 2022 – with more than 13,800 suppliers and 26,800 contracts awarded. Rwanda also introduced sanctions for delayed payments and addressed a common issue of suppliers not submitting all required documents.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

Instead of relying on a random sample, the Auditor General, for example, is interested in running a series of analyses of supplier risk, sectoral risk, and cost over-runs, as a preliminary risk assessment that would help them choose more selectively where to target their audit resources.

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