How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

Second, there is the issue of tenderers using (generative) AI to write or design their tenders. AI-generated tenders The AI PPN is however mostly concerned with the use of AI for tender generation. Slightly simplifying, there are three broad areas of AI-procurement interaction.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

One such channel is through tender opportunities that provide a formal way for businesses to compete for security deals. The Tracker Intelligence platform helps organisations identify and bid for tenders in a wide range of sectors. Types of Security Tenders There are various types of security contracts available.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Construction Tenders Securing lucrative contracts in the dynamic engineering and construction industry requires an understanding of the tendering process. A formal call for bids on a project, known as a tender, initiates the bidding process among prospective contractors.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Winning management consultancy contracts via competitive tender can be lucrative yet challenging. This article provides a comprehensive guide for consultancies on improving their chances of success when bidding for management consulting tenders, whether from government entities, NGOs, or private sector companies.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Fact checked by Eddie Regan, BiP Solutions Principal Procurement Consultant Brexit has dramatically changed the UK’s import and export-dynamic. Pre-Brexit trade predictions estimated a 15% decline in UK imports and exports. However, many businesses may not know where to turn when it comes to tender contracts.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 19, 2023

So it was important to set the bar high and to ensure our vision of procurement as a modern, digital open data-driven public service was strongly reflected. We are pleased to see “equitable” used to describe the tendering processes which implies moving beyond lowest price to foster economic inclusion.

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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As part of the reforms, the current Find a Tender system will be improved to create a Central Digital Platform. Commercial sensitivity will be an important ground for suppliers to understand. One of the more anticipated notes - Central Digital Platform and the Publication of Information - has now been published.

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How to Crack a Nut

MAY 8, 2024

Here I take a relatively pedestrian and pragmatic approach and, following the Cambridge dictionary , consider two ways in which ‘meaning’ is understood in plain English: ‘the meaning of something is what it expresses or represents’, and meaning as ‘importance or value’. This will be important later on. The similarity score is 0.857.

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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. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 6, 2024

For our project, we compared green criteria against real tender notices, using data from the European Union and the Dominican Republic. Applying AI could help you create short versions of the documents retaining the important information, by either extracting existing text or generating new text. Your task would be summarization.

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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. 41 PA23 and Sch.5

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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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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

In light of existing rules, vendors can deter competition by driving prices down in competitive tenders. There is quite a substantial effort to participate in a public tender process, so most vendors have a limit to how many unsuccessful tenders they are willing to respond to before giving up.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 31, 2025

While an important step forward, the portal still requires improvements to enhance usability, data completeness, and interoperability. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) itself, in its Olympic Agenda 2020+5, emphasizes the importance of integrity, transparency, and good governance.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is an important issue that may require further discussion in a separate post. Using product demonstrations alongside written tenders will help buyers get a proper appreciation of solutions being offered by suppliers. That is particularly impactful for newer, more innovative solutions which the authority may not be familiar with.

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Gillian: The Supplier Development Programme’s key focus is to support Scottish SMEs, third sector and social enterprises in how to tender. How to answer those all important questions within the tender documents to enable them to reflect how their businesses are going to support that policy and deliver on them.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

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. This criterion of selecting the tender was announced by European Parliament in January 2014. Tender Evaluation is done as an aggregate of both aspects.

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Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2024

Numerous opportunities exist for businesses specialising in cleaning services to participate in railway tenders and cleaning contracts. Tracker Intelligence helps companies by providing the right knowledge and tools to find and win railway cleaning tenders. Tracker Intelligence helps to make this process simpler.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 27, 2021

Each day federal, state and local agencies release several tenders across regions and sectors. The weightage and scoring of each tender will be different in the ease case. Devote plenty of time in drafting the tender proposal and do not forget to attach every document. . 

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ivalua

MAY 31, 2022

Why is Supplier Information so important? Throughout the supplier’s lifecycle (tender, contract, goods receiving, annual review etc.), Keep valuable information stored during the tender phase and to re-use it to enrich the SRM.

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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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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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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

Concerns were raised over suspicious tendering practices such as short bidding periods, overly rigid specifications, and potential collusion. While open data is a vital first step, it is not the only important factor in combating corruption.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This is particularly important as the new 2023 procurement law expands monitoring from only central government entities to local institutions as well. The number of contracting processes monitored by the Observatory in 2023 and 2024 to date, segmented by procedure type (open tendering, direct award and large purchase). Of these, US$19.5

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So far, AI has already obtained credible influence in the way public procurement tenders can be drafted and submitted. The adjudicators or evaluators of a tender act as both gatekeepers on behalf of the tendering process. And yet, most of the time, they play a subtle yet important role in anyone’s decision making.

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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. 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.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 20, 2024

22-2154 , the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reinstated the Portland Mint’s claim that the government breached an implied-in-fact contract to pay the Portland Mint for coins tendered under the government’s Mutilated Coin Redemption Program. United States , Case No. The Federal Circuit then found that the U.S.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

AUGUST 24, 2021

About the project In recent years, publishing and analysing administrative data on government contracts and tenders has an increasing importance in evaluating government transparency, efficient public spending and measuring risk of corruption in public procurement. sole source procedure) and the winning bidders themselves (e.g.

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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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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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Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

These figures aren’t helped by the fact that the proportion of public sector contracts awarded without a competitive tender is rising ( 15 per cent in 2016 to 22 per cent in 2017 and then 23 per cent in 2018 ). With many eSourcing solutions being used across the country, many tenders require separate application processes just to apply.

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VWV

AUGUST 29, 2024

In this guide we offer practical insights into using frameworks under the new Procurement Act (the Act) and highlight some of the important changes introduced by the Act. However, there are some important legal and commercial considerations to ensure compliance with the correct process.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

OCTOBER 14, 2019

These documents are customized to define the terms and conditions of tendering for a particular procurement opportunity. Every system has standard bidding documents for goods , works and services which can be customized to address specific tendering needs.

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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. If not resolved quickly, these issues could lead to higher costs, less innovation and missed opportunities to improve public services.

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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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VWV

AUGUST 20, 2024

For example, assessment summaries must be provided before the contract award notice is published and unsuccessful bidders will receive assessment summaries for both their tender and the successful bidder. Contract Award Notices and Standstill - The mandatory standstill period is changing under the Act, from 10 calendar days to 8 working days.

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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 None of this is conducive to the increased levels of legal certainty and reduction in red tape and dispute risk that the proposal sets to unlock.

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