Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

These frameworks have led to big efficiency wins: the traditional tender procedures take between four months and one year to complete while the framework procedure takes between four and six weeks on average. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

In India, according to the Ministry of Finance General Financial Rules (2017), all procuring authorities are responsible and accountable for ensuring transparency, fairness, equality, competition, and appeal rights in contracting. Collect information on more details of the tender process and in standardised formats (e.g.,

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This model was made possible through CDL collaborating with the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) to combine procurement data with dozens of other datasets, as well as working with Assam’s Finance Department to structure and standardize data on all flood-related procurement from the last five years.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To tackle this problem, the country has proposed wide-ranging legislation , including an anti-corruption package with measures to standardize the operations of Mongolia’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and ensure they follow consistent rules throughout processes like tendering and procurement, among others.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The urgent need to stem these ills led to the first wave of reforms that saw an overhaul of colonial era and post-independence procurement structures in the form of Tender Boards that were characterized by centralized procurement, lack of transparency, outdated legal framework and weak dispute management mechanisms.

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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

They host requests for bids and tenders from buyers and allow vendors to submit bids to multiple organizations. Some are financed through subscription fees paid by vendors, a model that some procurement experts feel leads to lower supplier quality. However, private portals have their own drawbacks.

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

By bridging their finance gaps, their business as seen significant growth and expansion. . By bridging the gaps, Amrest could even start the tendering process earlier with a wider range of suppliers. Part of procurement, driven by finance–payment is a key part of the supply chain partnership. . Part 1 HERE. Part of the Solution.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JUNE 7, 2024

Questions ranging from how the situation may evolve into an ISDS case, whether it is possible to deal with the potential dispute inhouse or how to establish the tender procedure for outside counsel require immediate attention by the state. A quick analysis of the situation is therefore warranted.

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The Procurement School

MARCH 22, 2024

Yukon Government has used bid bonding as a risk mitigation tool on many procurements, particularly on construction-related tenders. Could a local indigenous finance institution step into the role of a surety company and provide the bonding requirements to the local business community? Could we explore ideas such as cash securities?

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We are pleased to see “equitable” used to describe the tendering processes which implies moving beyond lowest price to foster economic inclusion. The resulting guidelines, case studies and follow-up work are clear next steps.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 20, 2024

Although these steps largely depend on the specific circumstances of each case, the panel agreed on the fundamental importance of having a good pluridisciplinary team, i.e. including for instance finance or tax people, that can cooperate with the legal team. Lawyers need to be on top on that.

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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). The role of civil society organisations (CSOs), however, varies.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 12, 2024

Peru (where the claimant argued that the tender of the project, which was the subject of the dispute, had been rigged as part of a corruption scheme involving high ranking officials in the government), this year, Julio Olortegui and Nennele Rivadeneira reported on the decision in Panamericana Television S.A

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria. Klaipeda is far from the only public agency in Lithuania using innovative approaches to procurement to make its city greener and healthier. We tried to meet markets where they were.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities. ” Scott Sanders Des Moines City Manager Open contracting approach In 2021, a team from the City Manager’s office and Division of Finance-Procurement began investigating how they might better fold equity and inclusion into Des Moines’ purchasing practices.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

This risk is particularly acute for high-risk applications of [algorithmic systems], for example where an [algorithmic system] determines a person's access to employment or housing or where the application is in a highly regulated sector such as finance ’ (at 10).

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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).

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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. Welcome to my first vlog of 2024, highlighting what we’ve achieved over the first quarter of the year and taking a look at what’s coming up. Obviously we’ve got some breaking news.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Icelandic Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs launched an ambitious initiative to accelerate the digital transformation of public services in Iceland in 2019. Learn more about Iceland’s digital transformation journey in this AWS Institute video series.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

Similarly, Lithuania is now tracking the use of “green” criteria to promote the procurement of environmentally friendly products and services, and Paraguay uses machine-learning to advertise tenders suitable for small businesses.

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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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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 29, 2023

As a result, many debt lawsuits followed, including one filed by the Ministry of Economy and Finances (“MEF”) which required the channel to pay considerable loan installments (which is still unable to pay up to this date). Amorrortu alleged the existence of corruption as a component of his fair and equitable treatment claim.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Procurement would thus be a set of administrative law requirements concerned with the design and advertisement of tenders for public contracts, the decision-making process leading to the award of those contracts, and the advertisement and potential challenge of such decisions.

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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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