Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

And then in August, Mr McKee, the Minister for Public Finance, visited Dovetail Enterprises to hear about the important role supported businesses continue to play in boosting the Scottish economy through delivering goods and services, and providing meaningful employment, training and support, for those of us who may otherwise be excluded.

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VWV

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The Ministerial Statement highlighted that the extension aims to facilitate a smoother transition for both contracting authorities and suppliers. In the case of direct awards, procurements are treated as having commenced if a contracting authority has notified a supplier of its intention to direct award. Where are we now?

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

I’d like to welcome Mr. McKee as the Minister for Public Finance and as the Minister responsible for procurement. These are a rich source of information for buyers and suppliers and provide valuable information which enables us to produce the Annual Ministerial Report. Obviously we’ve got some breaking news.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

With a background in banking, finance, and economics, she worked at Rwanda’s Development Board and in the private sector before entering public procurement and she’s a current member of the MAPS steering committee for the period of 2024-2026. Procurement does not start from the publication of tenders.

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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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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In Uganda, the process of translating procurement transparency commitments into open contracting data has been largely bottom-up, driven by CSOs (with financing by international donors such as the World Bank). Currently, a login only available to registered suppliers is required to access details on contracts.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

Once the project is selected for funding, it can be tracked through the full implementation pipeline: developing procurement needs, tendering, choosing suppliers, construction, and auditing. Projects financed by the European Investment Bank, World Bank, and USAID are already uploaded to DREAM.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Results : About a year after the launch of the new strategies, vendor registration has tripled, with local businesses representing 21% of their suppliers, with 9% women-owned, and 6% minority-owned businesses (from 373 to 1113 registered vendors, as of 20 June). The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities.

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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

On a (trite) humoristic note: a first idea to slow any task down would be to leave its implementation to a cumbersome public tender procedure. This could be difficult to implement, especially as an increasing number of suppliers do rely – and will rely even more – on AI solutions for all their clients. If so, what is to be done?

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European Law: Public Procurement

MAY 11, 2012

In 2008, the Dutch province of North Holland announced in a tendering procedure that it wished to procure coffee machines and the products necessary to make them function (coffee, tea, sugar, milk, cups). 76 Pursuant to the article, the conditions governing the performance of a contract may, in particular, refer to social considerations.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The media organization ProTenge, which exposed tenders to buy books and publish articles about the ex-President that were subsequently canceled. Civic procurement monitoring in Kazakhstan at a glance Members of Kun Jarygy have monitored 1,222 tenders worth KZT 346 billion (~US$725 million) in the coalition’s first year.

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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). If I have a procurement that will be seeking a solution from the vendors or suppliers, and I have multiple evaluation criteria, I will use a Request for Proposal (RFP).

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