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Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

Open contracting approach: Supported by OCP’s Lift Impact accelerator program from 2021, Ekiti State’s public procurement agency created better opportunities for small businesses and particularly women-led businesses, to participate in public contracts. This is about participation.

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Pre-Bid and Pre-Proposal Meetings: Similarities and Differences

The Procurement ClassRoom

The goal is to clarify any technical or procurement-related aspects, ensuring that all potential participants have a comprehensive understanding of the requirements. Addressing these queries before bid or proposal submission helps resolve ambiguities and ensures that participants have accurate information.

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Meet the Buyer 2024 – Get live advice on how to win work on Scottish Frameworks

Scottish Government Procurement

Frameworks can help suppliers to participate in national and large collaborative contracts where the framework is often divided into specialist or geographical lots. A lot is where a procurement process separates contracts into smaller categories, for instance geographical location or type of product.

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Should FTAs open and close (or only open) international procurement markets?

How to Crack a Nut

In that way, the concessions given by B to A may be more meaningful and long-lasting, or at least put pressure on third countries to participate in bilateral (and multilateral — looking at the WTO GPA) procurement-related liberalisation efforts.

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Guide to Modern Vendor Relationships

The Procurement School

When thinking about these questions, consider three different types of vendor relationships: (a) vendors wanting to do business with government; (b) vendors participating in a solicitation process; and (c) contractors providing goods, services or construction to government. Avoid jargon and spell out acronyms.

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Advances in the new international taxation and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

However, we know that developing countries need support to develop further their analytical capacities and so achieve a truly effective participation in the development of international standards. We also suggest reconsidering the current ban on implementing the Digital Services Tax on companies with revenues below the agreed thresholds.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

Public contracts matter, he says: “The government allocates 32% of the country’s budget towards goods, services, and public works, to secure the rights and enhance the quality of life for citizens. Corruption in public procurement makes us poorer and takes our rights away.”