Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Bridging the digital divide: Implementing open procurement for effective digital transformation Digital transformation is arguably the most important administrative undertaking of governments around the world. Access to technical expertise Problem: Lack of specific technical expertise for informed choices within government.

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How to Crack a Nut

JANUARY 13, 2025

The UK Government has today published its AI Opportunities Action Plan , focused on Ramping up AI adoption across the UK to boost economic growth, provide jobs for the future and improve people's everyday lives. The governments response to the plan does not provide details either. It will require: 39.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Fragmented and inconsistent auditing practices across the decentralized government system have impeded effective oversight. Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. There was also a lack of data on the volume and outcome of audits.

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Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

Take a look at insights from incredible women who are breaking barriers, defying expectations, and reshaping the landscape of governance, public procurement, and leadership. Myth 1: Women-led and -owned businesses cannot successfully deliver government contracts Women are excelling in business.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 31, 2025

Spending updates and clear distinctions between funding sources will be vital to help everyone follow the money and the full delivery of the plan for the Games from the Governments 2023 Decree. More generally, there is room for improvement in the quantity and quality of the data on the platform. You should get involved too.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Were pleased to announce the launch of the Fair Work First in Procurement eLearning , designed to help organisations across Scotland embrace Fair Work First a Scottish Government policy aimed at promoting high-quality, fair work and workforce diversity.

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E-procurement Sustainability Procurement Public Procurement 48

Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

Government Procurement Professionals aim to achieve the best value for money in the process of procurement of goods and services for the public. A weightage-based criterion helps the procurement team to select the best out of the lot that gives the best value in terms of Cost, Quality, and experience.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 5, 2023

In October, EU countries will be required to adopt eForms in a bid to improve the quality of data published on the block’s government tendering. With data excellence as one of the pillars of their mission, TenderNed has been working on creating better data within the Dutch government for several 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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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

To put things straight the Government Procurement process comprises of four phases which are listed below- Procurement planning- This stage involves the identification of activities and their direction of requirements. Procurement Professionals evaluate Tenders based on Price v/s Quality.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Government expenditure through public procurement is essential since it ensures that there are contracts available to be bid in a fair, open, and competitive manner. Businesses can increase their chances of obtaining government procurement opportunities while lowering compliance risks by being aware of these regulations.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Challenge: In Ukraine, a lack of machine-readable data about procurement appeals made it difficult for government suppliers to defend their rights and interests. Appeals are an important element of any procurement system, as they enable businesses to defend their rights to compete for and win tenders. billion (US$1.9

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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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Tendersinfo

JUNE 4, 2021

As government sector projects lay the path for lucrative business opportunities and long-term growth it does come with a lot of hurdles and fierce competition. Here we have listed out few insights about e tendering business that can help you make the right bid.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society. in 2020 to 59.7%

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This analysis will explore the main NAO findings, look at their wider significance and propose steps to reinvigorate competition in government procurement. Without competitive bidding, prices go up, and the quality of goods and services languishes. Robust competition in public procurement can bring these promising outcomes.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 5, 2024

The topic is fascinating even if there is little discussion of concrete applications of AI that are actually working in government. For example, our partners at ChileCompra will talk about how they developed their ethical framework for procuring AI technology , including templates for tender documents.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When the government purchases goods and services from private businesses, the process is known as public procurement. Such a service requires the government to procure contracts in a well-managed and efficient manner. Furthermore, when the government improves its public procurement process, it can save significant amounts of money.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. In OECD member countries, public procurement represents 29% of government expenditure. They source their data from national, provincial and municipal governments.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

federal government awarded a total of $759 billion in public sector contracts , representing a $33 billion increase from the previous year. These critical steps can streamline the tender process, and position your business for success in the public sector market. In 2023, the U.S.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

They leveraged Paraguay’s high quality, publicly accessible open contracting data to measure the existing participation of these smaller businesses and to understand their challenges in working with government buyers. and the total value awarded to MSMEs has remained steady. They tried to set the project up for success in three ways.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

AUGUST 3, 2023

Customer Feedback ​ ​ "Naomi has a great understanding of NHS procurement especially bids and tender writing" "Having no understanding of the tender process, ​I am starting to get to grips with it" ​ "Naomi is an excellent trainer, clear, concise, knows her subject matters fully with much added knowledge.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

VIGIA is a unique initiative that allows entrepreneurs to easily find public procurement business opportunities in Paraguay, as well as provide real-time high-quality feedback about irregularities. The platform was co-developed by OCP and the business community together with the government. And how could we reach those entrepreneurs?

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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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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

Public Procurement Report The latest National Audit Office (NAO) report provides detailed recommendations for UK Government departments’ to maximise the benefits of effective competition when they run public procurement processes. The expected level of single bidders within UK government’s major markets was not assessed.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There is growing recognition that the public procurement system can be a strong force for policy implementation, helping to tackle major social and economic challenges faced by governments across the region. The reforms also created a procurement cadre across government that had specialized training – the most common of which was the CIPS-UK.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Restoration work is tendered on behalf of the landowner who is the client, but increasingly, these opportunities will appear on PCS as Prior Information Notices. We tender feasibility studies for the assessment of peatland sites and a plan for their restoration directly and have three current opportunities listed in August 2023.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

For the Government, supplier diversity programs are something procurement professionals in the United States (US) have accepted as a key element to their procurement success. These behaviors are commercially advantageous, increasing competition to directly improve quality, drive down costs, and improve project ROI.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

Public procurement covers $13 trillion of spending every year, one in every three dollars spent by our governments. It is an underfunded, paper-based government chore: we want to turn procurement into a smart, user-friendly, digital public service. Our bold new target firmly centers our work on this theme for the next six years.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 89

University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

Background By way of background, it is worth saying that NHS commissioning is a peculiar procurement activity resulting from the creation of an NHS internal market in the 1990s with the aim of harnessing market incentives and competition-based governance to improve the efficiency of the English healthcare system (see here ).

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The agency consulted women-led business owners, members of civil society, government line agencies, the legislature and the governor’s office to understand what changes were needed and to ensure they were implemented successfully. To increase their understanding of the needs of women businesses, they commissioned a survey.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

GTI-WP/2020:01, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute. The transparency interventions selected for each country predominantly led to more data in a more accessible format to be published by the government for the general public, including civil society, businesses, but also government agencies themselves (Table 1).

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

How the School of Applied Research in Public Procurement trained community leaders to dig into government contracting issues in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. On April 24 2022 Serik organized a public event in the Academy highlighting approaches promoting interaction between government institutions and civil society in procurement.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate’s National Collaborative Procurement Division (NCPD) administers the Scottish national collaborative frameworks and contracts for the whole of the Scottish Public Sector, as well as agreements that can be accessed by central government organisations of the Scottish Government.

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