Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Public Procurement Glossary Public procurement can feel like a maze of unfamiliar terms and endless abbreviations. Thats exactly why this Public procurement glossary existsto make things simple. What Is Public Procurement? E-Procurement It is the digital way of handling public purchasing.

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Competition in public procurement is not limited to financial competition; it is a key source of innovation and guarantees the fair allocation of public contracts. 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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When the government purchases goods and services from private businesses, the process is known as public procurement. Public procurement matters because it boosts growth, investment, and jobs. It feeds the economy by making it more innovative, resourceful, and socially inclusive. What is Public Procurement?

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Public procurement these days is not just about acquiring goods and public services at low costs. Social value is a transformative approach shaping how public contracts are awarded and executed. What Is Social Value In Public Procurement? Why Does Social Value Matter In Public Procurement?

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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have become a crucial part of the digital economy driving change, and providing new opportunities supported by technological innovation. The PPN 02/24 AI public procurement is aimed at helping UK public sector bodies navigate the compliant use of artificial intelligence in public contracts.

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Tracker Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2024

Introduction to Find a Tender Service: Navigating UK Public Contracts The area of public sector tenders in the United Kingdom is complex but filled with opportunities. Such businesses can enter this area with the perfect platform offered by Tracker’s Find a Tender Service.

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Public Contracting Institute

APRIL 1, 2024

In the era of digital transformation, blockchain technology emerges as a beacon of hope for enhancing transparency and integrity in public procurements. Transforming Public Procurement with Blockchain Blockchain’s decentralized ledger technology has the potential to dramatically improve the public procurement process.

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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

JULY 20, 2022

But beyond the financial rewards, what does your business stand to gain from getting involved in public procurement with the government? And how can you stand apart from the competition to win government procurement contracts in the first place? Currently, almost one-third of public money is spent on government procurement.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 5, 2024

Public procurement should be all about people. We want to enable one billion people to live in more equitable, prosperous and sustainable communities by 2030 by improving US$2 trillion in public procurement spending. Our world runs on public contracts. It’s a means to an end, not an end in itself.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Challenge: Indonesia’s public procurement sector is highly vulnerable to corruption. Open contracting approach: The open contracting risk monitoring platform Opentender.net empowers auditors to prioritize which procedures to investigate, gather evidence and respond to public complaints more effectively.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Challenge : In 2020, only 5% of Lithuania’s public procurement spending by value used green criteria that favor environmentally friendly products and services. Results : Levels of green procurement uptake across Lithuanian public institutions have increased to 94% by value and 93% by total procedures as of 1 December 2023.

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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. When given opportunities, these businesses excel in delivering quality and innovation. Happy International Women’s Day!

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Chile’s public procurement agency, ChileCompra, created its “ Public Contracting Observatory ” service in 2012 to detect, prevent, and fix irregularities in government contracting procedures. million relates to open tendering processes that were awarded, US$17.7 It’s not an easy task,” says Moreno. Of these, US$19.5

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The team developed a three-pronged strategy: talk to MSMEs and build their capacity to bid on contracts; simplify the bidding process for smaller businesses; and use innovative technology to better measure and manage opportunities for small business vendors. and the total value awarded to MSMEs has remained steady.

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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 provides businesses with the tools to find the right public procurement frameworks , and the insight to help suppliers win these valuable contracts.

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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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Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

Five ways to improve public sector procurement for startups For this blog piece, we look at how public sector procurement should improve to help smaller businesses to work with the government. It’s a crucial element needed to improve the health of the economy and grow more innovative public services.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

For further information on public procurement in Scotland please visit www.gov.scot/procurement Please email enquiries to scottishprocurement@gov.scot Follow us online: Single speaker transcript, Nick Ford: Hi everyone. Welcome to my second vlog of 2024. A really good and enjoyable event.

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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. Instead, we found that involving entrepreneurs’ knowledge could prevent issues in specific tender processes.

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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. The first phase, Introductory Course on Public Procurement, took place online from October to December 2021.

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Nitrous: Public Procurement

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Nitrous has been working with the Greater London Authority and the London Office of Technology & Innovation (LOTI) to provide greater access to local government for SMEs through innovative procurement. With joint-procurement being so difficult, we had a real opportunity to bring this to Thirty3.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This Scot Climate Week 2023 , we welcome a Peatland ACTION case study on how local contractors used a public procurement opportunity to take on a challenging first project and then go on to found a specialist business in peatland restoration. To find out more about Peatland ACTION, visit www.nature.scot/peatlandaction.

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University of Bristol

AUGUST 23, 2021

One of the relatively recent developments in the post-Brexit review of UK public procurement law is the February 2021 proposal for the replacement of the current rules on the commissioning of healthcare services for the purposes of the English NHS (for background, you can watch here ), with a new provider selection regime (‘the proposal’).

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 21, 2023

First, a webinar where I will be participating in discussions on the role of procurement in contributing to the public sector’s acquisition of trustworthy AI, and the associated challenges, from an EU and US perspective. Please scroll down for details and links to registration pages. All welcome! Registration: [link].

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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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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The posting time is determined primarily by the procurement’s estimated value. In instances, such as a limited number of potential bidders, a complex procurement or a new or innovative concept a procurement may be posted longer to attract more bidders. Step 4 Evaluation Once the procurement closes bids are evaluated.

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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. Framework Public Bodies will be notified upon award.

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University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector. 12 goals of value for money and public benefit and s.13

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

I continue exploring the use of public procurement as a tool of digital regulation (or ‘AI regulation by contract’ as shorthand)—ie as a mechanism to promote transparency, explainability, cyber security, ethical and legal compliance leading to trustworthiness, etc in the adoption of digital technologies by the public sector.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. As the PPDS Communication stresses To unlock the full potential of public procurement, access to data and the ability to analyse it are essential.

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The Procurement School

MARCH 22, 2024

I quickly found at the beginning of my journey into Indigenous Procurement that courses and procurement training, although important, would only be one part of my learning in the implementation of this innovative policy. Let’s take a look at an example that we have been working with: Bid Bonding.

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How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The report is not specifically about public procurement of AI, but its content is relevant to assessing the conditions surrounding the acquisition of AI by the public sector. The AI procurement report evidences that UK (public and private) buyers are procuring AI they do not understand and cannot adequately monitor.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

They are also responsible for the procurement of innovation. This is an update on the national collaborative frameworks and contracts we offer to public sector buyers in Scotland. The Centres of Expertise (CoEs) and the Civils UIG have noted/endorsed, respectively, the Procurement Strategy.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I was invited to provide an entry on ‘public procurement’ for the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of European Law co-edited by Andrea Biondi and Oana Stefan. things going on in procurement. Public Procurement I. Below is my draft entry with perhaps an eclectic choice of content.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Challenge: Despite ongoing government reforms, corruption and inefficient spending remains pervasive in Kazakhstan’s public procurement. And two-thirds of public spending is conducted through an opaque quasi-governmental sector. The new regime’s reforms have been met with skepticism by some observers.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 31, 2025

CivicDataLab analyzed Assams public procurement data to estimate the share of green public procurement (GPP). GPP refers to procurement that incorporates climate and environmental goals. CivicDataLab developed a methodology to identify and measure green public procurement using tender titles.

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