Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We are currently undertaking a survey of suppliers to the public sector in Scotland on a range of issues related to public procurement and the tendering process. The survey should take around 20-30 minutes to complete, participation is voluntary and your responses will be completely anonymous.

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It covers a range of issues related to public procurement and the tendering process. The survey should take around 20-30 minutes to complete, participation is voluntary and your responses will be completely anonymous. Further information If you have any questions about the survey, please contact scottishprocurement@gov.scot.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Article 8, for example, warns the procuring agency, “when first soliciting the participation of. contractors in the procurement proceedings, shall declare whether the participation of suppliers or contractors in the procurement proceedings is limited,” and any “such declaration may not later be altered.”

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Open contracting, a globally recognized framework, advocates for transparency at every stage of the procurement lifecycle including planning, tendering, awarding, and contract management. This not only facilitated fair competition among suppliers but also empowered citizens to monitor government spending, thereby curbing corruption.

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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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Scottish Government Procurement

MAY 9, 2024

The plan will aim to consider how procurements are conducted and contracts are developed to reduce barriers and enable participation for SMEs and third sector organisations. As the strategy continues to embed and we start to consider ways to measure its impact, where possible will use information and data that is already collated.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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. To realize that vision, in 2021, EKBPP joined OCP’s Lift accelerator program.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

However, the new transparency regime does not necessarily guarantee that such granular and detailed information will be available, especially as the practical level of transparency that will stem from the new obligations crucially hinges on the treatment of commercially sensitive information (which is exempted from disclosure in s.94

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The survey covers a range of issues related to public procurement and the tendering process. The survey should take around 20-30 minutes to complete, participation is voluntary and your responses will be completely anonymous. The survey can be accessed using the following link: [link] or by the attached QR code.

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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

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. Fewer than 300 MSMEs participate in a procurement market worth almost US$3 billion annually.

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 13, 2024

An ambitious urban renewal process has been taking place in the informal settlements of Buenos Aires since 2016. To monitor all the public works that had been promised, ACIJ worked with residents to collect open contracting data from BAObras and other public information, to file access to information requests, and conduct community surveys.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Both modules allow for comprehensive, in-depth analysis of public procurement using an exhaustive range of parameters (such as goods and their classifications, tenders, lots, and complaints; for any selected period; and any combination of selection criteria).

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BLP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Government of Guatemala promotes two competitive public procurement events (tenders) for the construction or expansion of hospitals, with financing from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). For more information, contact us at info@blplegal.com or at +506 6280 2269 via WhatsApp, Telegram.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Their business facilitates access to procurement information, providing powerful analytics that help companies to search for new opportunities, prepare bids, and evaluate their performance on past tenders. Participating in public contracting represents a massive opportunity for businesses, but one that many fail to seize.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 7, 2024

This would imply that economic operators established in other countries are not entitled to participate in a public contract award procedure governed by Directive 2014/25/EU and, consequently, are unable to rely on the provisions of that Directive before Member State courts.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

But when it comes to public procurement, they represent less than 5% of vendors participating in the system in the last 3 years, according to official data. The few suppliers who participated in the procurement system indicated a certain weariness because many of the problems they raised in the past were ignored by the authorities.

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How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

This guest post by Saema Jaffer* explores the policy approaches that can be followed in the UK, and elsewhere, in relation to the use of AI in the writing and evaluation of tender documents. The reason for this is yet another question: what information did the bidder feed the AI response generator to obtain an answer? says a buyer.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

There is no limit to the number of suppliers that can participate in the DPS and applications can be submitted at any time.

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Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Further details can be found here: Procurement – media planning buying and associated services: guidance – gov.scot (www.gov.scot) Recruitment Ads and Pins The renewal process for Recruitment Ads and Pins is underway with tender submissions being evaluated. Work on the re-let has commenced and currently it is out to Tender.

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BLP

JULY 20, 2023

The post Price Reasonability in the New Public Procurement Law appeared first on BLP Legal.

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VWV

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

An associated person, such as essential subcontractors, are those a supplier relies on to satisfy the conditions of participation. Under the new regulations, evaluations will now be assessed on the basis of 'Most Advantageous Tender' instead of the 'Most Economically Advantageous Tender'. How has the evaluation criteria changed?

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VWV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Introduction of a Central Digital Platform as an online central repository of information. Changes to the process for providing feedback on tenders and the standstill period. As part of the reforms, the current Find a Tender system will be improved to create a Central Digital Platform. Introduction of open frameworks.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It has debarred more than 60 suppliers for violations, and reduced unresolved complaints and canceled tenders. in 2020 to 96% and single-bid tenders decreased across all methods – from 62.5% During the pandemic, the agency suspended a tender to buy overpriced digital textbooks. in 2020 to 59.7%

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

As we celebrate, we find ourselves at the crossroads of progress and potential, confronting the myths holding women back from participating in public procurement and attaining certain heights in leadership. Happy International Women’s Day! The world is made up of men and women; in fact, there are more women than men in the world.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 22, 2024

They typically focus primarily on the pre-tendering and tendering phases, leaving a gap in guidance for the post-award phase. Depending on the contract ’s complexity, either an individual or a team can be assigned to these duties, participating in planning, inception meetings, and periodic performance reporting.

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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

For instance, a lack of clear, coherent tendering procedures or regulatory violations in the tender advertisement may affect the execution of government projects. Tracker Intelligence brings opportunities for procurement on board, thereby supporting SMEs in procurement to participate easily.

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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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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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Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These agreements define terms, conditions and price for goods and services and allow authorities to procure without having to re-run lengthy tender processes. Tracker Intelligence is a great tool to help vendors precisely and easily negotiate the complexity of the tendering process.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

NHS commissioning takes place in a largely in-house environment where NHS buyers commission services primarily from NHS suppliers, but also with mixed private participation by both for-profit and third sector providers.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

The Public Procurement Commission, which is responsible for checking the credentials of companies that wish to register to participate in public tenders, is keen to develop a mechanism for evaluating contract performance.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

By engaging all of the market, sharing information (in a way that does not favour particular suppliers) and asking the market for feedback, the NAO believe that UK Government departments can increase levels of competition in future procurements. Improve the quality of information Government departments submit on contracts.

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Public Contracting Institute

APRIL 1, 2024

By recording each transaction on a distributed ledger, blockchain allows all authorized participants in the network to access the same information in real-time. This not only eliminates information silos but also ensures that every step of the procurement process, from tender issuance to contract fulfillment, is visible and auditable.

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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. Lifecycle stages are in gray, factors are in green, and requirements/certifications are in white.

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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 also demystifies the process for those small and disadvantaged suppliers who often interpret the lack of visibility as an overstated complexity that discourages them from participating.

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