Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

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. Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) is the measure for selecting the best out of the incoming bids based on factors that are related to the subject matter of the contract.

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How to Crack a Nut

JANUARY 13, 2025

Mission-focussed national AI tenders to support rapid adoption across de-centralised systems led by the mission delivery boards. However, these tenders should be designed to encourage new entrants, avoiding reliance on commercial frameworks where possible. quality), requirements, and best practice (e.g. 41 PA23 and Sch.5

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Tendersinfo

MARCH 24, 2021

The higher the value of the contract higher is the team size hence it important to understand the metrics based on which a bid is successful. Even though there is no such general rule to win a contract but when you take each contract individually there is a commonality that prevails in tenders across various regions and sectors.

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Public Procurement Procurement Tender Bidding 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

Results : The Clarity App is building trust among Ukrainian businesses that they can receive a fair decision for procurement appeals and fair competition without discrimination in tenders. Appeals are an important element of any procurement system, as they enable businesses to defend their rights to compete for and win tenders.

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Procurement Tender Buyers Public Procurement 67

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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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Standard Bidding Documents , also known as tender documents or solicitation documents , are essential tools in the procurement process. Quality Requirements : They describe the quality and specifications of the goods , services , or works required. Invitation to Bid : They formally invite potential bidders to submit their bids.

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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. As government bids follow a definite procurement process it is important for Bid Managers to meet all the deadlines and eligibility criteria of Government Procurement.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These agreements take on even greater importance under the Procurement Act 2023, with greater emphasis on transparency, competition and sustainability. 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

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. Without competitive bidding, prices go up, and the quality of goods and services languishes.

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Public Procurement Procurement Tender Framework Agreement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

When given opportunities, these businesses excel in delivering quality and innovation. Construction continues to be the second most important industry, and office supplies took the place of food sales. Myth 1: Women-led and -owned businesses cannot successfully deliver government contracts Women are excelling in business.

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Tracker Intelligence

JULY 19, 2022

Round one saw grants given to: the restoration of the 900-year old Haverfordwest Castle in Pembrokeshire into a high-quality all-weather visitor attraction and to develop the potential of the river as a feature of the town centre. The opening of this second round of funding will see numerous contracts for tender across the UK.

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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. Second, they sought to leverage Paraguay’s accessible, high quality open contracting data.

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Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JANUARY 29, 2024

The benefits of sourcing from overseas include factors such as: Access to a wider market Access to expertise and technology Lower prices If you read last month’s blog you will have discovered or been reminded of understanding the importance between price and cost.

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Global Sourcing IT Supplier Price 59

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

We want to unlock its power to improve economic inclusion and sustainability, rebuild integrity and trust, and deliver the quality public services that we all deserve. We will make sure our solutions are co-built with local partners who will own an important ‘problem’ and who will own and scale the approach.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Sustainability 89

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

and qualifies it in two important ways: (1) the overall requirement is that the AI system’s operation should be ‘ sufficiently transparent’, with ‘sufficient’ creating a lot of potential issues here; and, (2) the reference to ‘Good Industry Practice’ [more on this below].

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Supplier Transparency Negotiation Procurement 75

Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Simplifying the process and building capacity As part of its review, the agency identified several “conundrums” in its registration procedures and tender requirements. But the agency is also aware that this is only the first step, and is working towards improving the data quality and availability in their open data portal.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Bidding 89

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

In spite of such major policy developments, we still lack the specific and rigorous evidence on the impact of transparency interventions and which types of transparency matter for which actors to support desirable societal outcomes such as high quality public services, procedural justice or public sector integrity (Bauhr et al, 2019).

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

The lectures and interactive sessions covered the foundations of modern public procurement, basic skills for monitoring and analyzing the level of transparency and quality of procurement, as well as practical exercises to apply these skills. Unfortunately, many people do not know about the potential of monitoring public procurement tenders.

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Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Participation 52

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 6, 2023

It is thus important to understand the shortcomings inherent to this approach and to the model AI clauses, before assuming that their use will actually ensure the ‘trustworthy, transparent, and accountable development [and deployment] of AI technologies’. Whichever way this goes, this puts the public buyer in a position of rule-taker.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In recent years, the company has been consistently implementing advanced technological solutions, thus improving the quality, safety and effectiveness of its operations. The possibility of integrating the new tool with the solutions already adopted within the organization, including SAP, is also of crucial importance.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

It is one thing to make tenders public, and another to offer suppliers visibility into the end-to-end bid management process and final award decisions. This encourages more diverse participation and improves the quality of responses – and therefore creates value for the general public. Suppliers need bidding and contract transparency.

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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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University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And those difficulties and clashes are exacerbated by several layers of multi-level governance and decision-making in public procurement, which create additional scope for conflict and contestation in the process of translating general legislative and policy goals into decisions on the design of public tenders and public contracts.

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Procurement Public Procurement Public Goods Accountability 52

ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

By bridging the gaps, Amrest could even start the tendering process earlier with a wider range of suppliers. In addition, quality is the cornerstone of the food and beverage industry and effective sourcing and forecasting is crucial to their operational success. Part of the Solution.

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ivalua

MAY 11, 2021

Organizations will move away from what he calls “tail spend automation,” in which processes related to managing low-value tenders are automated, freeing up purchasers to focus on strategic suppliers. To progress along your digital transformation journey, it’s important to understand your level of digital maturity.

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Risk Management Supply Chain Procurement Management 52

Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

There, the court held that the defendant must transfer to the plaintiff the cryptocurrency of the same kind, quality, and amount. Cryptocurrency is Digital Information, and Not a “Thing” In the Seoul High Court Judgment No. But in the process, the court noted that the defendant’s duty to do so does not arise under a bailment contract.

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Tender Buyers Contract Corruption 52

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

Especially because, while the CCS AI DPS tries to address some issues, such as ethical risks (though the effectiveness of this can also be queried), it makes clear that ‘quality, price and cultural fit (including social value) can be assessed based on individual customer requirements’.

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Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 5, 2024

We recently published a blog post that provides a gentle introduction to AI in procurement, illustrating the thinking and work that needs to go into even relatively straightforward processes such as comparing green criteria for public contracts against real tender notices.

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Public Procurement Procurement Tender Ethics 62

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. These critical steps can streamline the tender process, and position your business for success in the public sector market.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

Key elements of the proposal In a nutshell, the proposal seeks to debunk tendering as the sole (or rather, primary, for there are exceptions in reg.32 Comments on the ‘three route’ model Tendering optionality.

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European Law: Public Procurement

MAY 11, 2012

Can public authorities procure fair trade products, or are they debarred from specifically referring to the fair trade qualities of those products under the public procurement directive (directive 2004/18/EC)? Qualities relating to the production stage of products (including fair trade conditions!) Netherlands.

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Procurement Award Criteria Public Procurement Manufacturing 40

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. A recurrent auditing is particularly important, as the performance of the tool will evolve due its capacity to learn (and sometimes possibly even detect it is being tested ).

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Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Evaluation 59

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. All Dutch authorities must publish their above-the-threshold tenders via the TenderNed platform , so businesses can access all public data and documents from a single webpage.

Data 52

Data Tender Procurement E-procurement 52

The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. Calculate the Procurement Value This step is important as it helps to determine the procurement approach and secures the necessary funding. Click here for more information on RACI charts.

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Procurement Market Analysis Bidder Public Procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 data strategy stressed that Public procurement data are essential to improve transparency and accountability of public spending, fighting corruption and improving spending quality. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved. Unavoidably, without data, the PPDS risks being little more than an empty shell.

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Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate. When choosing a model, it’s important to understand its training data.

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