Tracker Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2025

Through customised insights and tender notifications that link them to public sector contract possibilities and government procurement organisations, Tracker Intelligence assists suppliers in navigating this difficult market. They combine demand from many councils, resulting in economies of scale and easier access to contracts for suppliers.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In the Kun Jarygy coalition’s first year, they detected 270 purchases with violations, resulting in five criminal cases and KZT 11.38 And the media outlet ProTenge has stopped suspicious purchases worth at least US$3 million. The media outlet ProTenge has stopped suspicious purchases worth at least US$3 million.

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Procurement E-procurement Public Procurement Corruption 120

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

The integration – expected to happen later in 2024 once an upgrade to e-pengaduan is completed by the government – will allow ICW to monitor the complaints submitted and resolved by the Indonesian government, and in turn, assess the performance of internal auditors in responding to public complaints.

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Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Public sector procurement relies heavily on framework agreements as a streamlined purchasing tool for goods and services. 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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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. An integrated, multifunctional team.

Public Procurement 62

Public Procurement Procurement Tender Ethics 62

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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Data Corruption Supplier Public Procurement 123

Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Approximately 250,000 public authorities in the European Union spend 2 trillion pounds or 14 percent of the Gross National Product purchasing works, services, and supplies. When the government purchases goods and services from private businesses, the process is known as public procurement.

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Public Procurement Procurement Tender Supplier 52

ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

The Strategic Sourcing modules of Ivalua allow Punch Powertrain buyers to define Purchasing needs collaboratively, consolidate the tendering documents and ease costing by suppliers (cost breakdown files, dialogue with the projects on technical feasibility).

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Strategic Sourcing E-auction Automotive E-procurement 52

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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Collaboration E-catalogue Framework Agreement E-procurement 67

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Orsay (France), September 02, 2019 – Viparis has chosen e-Procurement software vendor Ivalua and Consulting firm CKS to optimize the management of supplier relations, source-to-contract (purchase orders, calls for tender and contracts), expense analysis and measurement of Procurement performance.

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E-procurement Procurement Tender Supplier 53

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

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

To standardize and digitalize its processes, the company was looking for a new procurement solution for the entire group to handle the entire purchasing process for indirect materials, services, and assets, including tendering, and supplier evaluation.

IT 52

IT Supplier Media Tender 52

Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It is fueled by feedback from entrepreneurs, helping to mitigate barriers to entry and streamline the purchasing processes. Some of the most notable issues that emerged from our conversations with buyers included the lack of authority to curb cases of misconduct and the lack of resources for effectively designing and executing purchases.

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Tender Public Procurement Supplier Participation 52

ivalua

MARCH 30, 2022

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is not limited to transactional information (number of purchase orders, number of catalog items, number of supplier invoices ) or legal/contractual requirements. Learn to manage and control your suppliers to improve your purchasing efficiency and expand your supplier base. .

Supplier 52

Supplier Supply Chain Procurement Team Tender 52

ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

– Actions on the products and services purchased. This means having an integrated decision-making tool to avoid having to compile multiple new data sources, new Excel files, new software, etc. Integrate carbon criteria in calls for tenders. Part 2: Act on the products and services purchased.

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Supplier Supply Chain Purchasing Buyers 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 3, 2024

Sustainability needs to be seen as a wider issue, not just green purchasing and the environment, but also supporting women businesses and local economic development. This helps us ensure the integrity of the process,” highlights Uwingeneye. Procurement does not start from the publication of tenders.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 80

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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Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Results: A year after the new procurement law was passed, the public procurement agency (DNCP) is using machine-learning to identify tenders that are most likely to be awarded to smaller businesses. The work also informed new legislation that will require 20% of the value of contracts to be awarded to MSMEs, including through subcontracting.

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Procurement Tender Public Procurement Bidder 62

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 3, 2023

An article published in Kazakhstan by Gulbarshyn Karabalina and Svetlana Garkusha prompted the social services department of the Mangystau Region to use a competitive tender for the first time in years. Unfortunately, many people do not know about the potential of monitoring public procurement tenders. Are the goals being achieved?

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement E-procurement Participation 52

Procureware

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Long before you make a purchase decision, you must create the right structure for vendor relationships with your procurement organization. They host requests for bids and tenders from buyers and allow vendors to submit bids to multiple organizations. Two leading models are private and cooperative vendor networks.

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Evaluation Networking E-procurement Supplier 40

ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of the year-long project, PKP Energetyka will implement the modules facilitating the registration of Contracts, e-Catalogs, Tender Management, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and finally, Invoice handling. The key goals are not only the safety or optimization and acceleration of the Procurement processes as such.

E-procurement 40

E-procurement Tender Supplier Buyers 40

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The key aim of the Requirements Reserved for Supported Businesses DPS is to provide Scottish Public Sector and Third Sector Bodies (Framework Public Bodies) with a clear path for the purchase of goods and services from Supported Businesses and in doing so, support the integration of disabled and disadvantaged citizens into the mainstream workforce.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Framework Agreement Supplier Purchasing 44

The Procurement School

MAY 27, 2024

Collective agreements offer some predictability, but lump sum tendered bids often must guess the future and buffer to avoid loss. Obtaining a procurement certification or a purchasing certificate can be a wise decision for those aspiring to excel in public procurement.

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Total Cost of Ownership Budget Collaboration 52

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Open contracting approach : The city implemented an ambitious, comprehensive reform project to digitize and open up procurement, and integrate its equity and sustainability values into processes. The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities.

Procurement 52

Procurement Sustainability IT E-procurement 52

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The key aim of the Requirements Reserved for Supported Businesses DPS is to provide Scottish Public Sector and Third Sector Bodies (Framework Public Bodies) with a clear path for the purchase of goods and services from Supported Businesses and in doing so, support the integration of disabled and disadvantaged citizens into the mainstream workforce.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Framework Agreement Supplier Purchasing 40

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The city government of Klaipeda runs the Dancer bus service through a comprehensive, 10-year lease agreement that is the first purchase of its kind in the country, a result of Lithuania’s shift to using green criteria for public contracts. In a few pre-tender market consultations, we came out with demanding GPP criteria.

Procurement 89

Procurement Buyers E-procurement Public Procurement 89

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Slovak Government decided not to purchase the stadium and it instead challenged the compatibility with EU law of the State aid package due to a fundamental breach of procurement law. Once the stadium was built, NFŠ exercised the put option. This is not what the ECJ wrote in its Judgment.

Procurement 52

Procurement Finance Purchasing Public Procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

However, data from only 20% of all call for tenders as submitted by public buyers is available and searchable for analysis in one place [ie TED]. By the end of 2024, all participating national publication portals would be connected, historic data published at EU level integrated and the analytics toolkit expanded.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

These developed requirements can then be embedded into public contracts by reference, and thus protect public buyers from vendor standard cherry-picking, as well as providing a clear benchmark against which to assess tenders.

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Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Sections 1022 and 1023 respectively authorize the Navy to use certain authorized funds to incrementally fund contracts for the advance procurement and construction of a San Antonio-class amphibious ship and a submarine tender.

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Government Government Export Data 40

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

This ensures transparency and encourages innovation, because as providers introduce new services and products, they become automatically purchasable under the framework agreement. There is research to show that every additional tenderer leads to a price reduction. Purchased systems need to replace or work within existing systems.

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Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 138

Tracker Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

El Salvador has accepted Bitcoin as legal tender across the country. Is it realistic to integrate digital currencies with Fiat or use them as an alternative? To be named as such, a digital currency should also be useable to pay for services and purchase goods. Well, there are solid arguments for and against the concept.

Networking 52

Networking Tender Buyers Integration 52

ivalua

MAY 11, 2021

The research firm asked more than 400 respondents across Europe, the Middle East and Africa 12 questions related to some key themes: What are the strategic priorities of purchasing departments in the region? Finally, the emergence of virtual purchasing assistants will automate communications between suppliers and procurement teams.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Supply Chain Procurement Management 52

Procurement Notes

JUNE 15, 2021

competition for a blanket purchase agreement or order under the Federal Supply Schedule [31] A competition that uses FAR Part 13 simplified acquisition procedures [32] It is also worth noting that if a procuring agency is not subject to the required debriefing provisions of the U.S. See, e.g., Centerra Integrated Facilities Servs.,

Bidding 40

Bidding E-procurement Procurement Negotiation 40

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Public procurement—the process where public authorities like government departments or local councils purchase goods or services from companies—is a vital economic driver in Europe, accounting for more than 13 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP). Architectural diagram of the PPDS.

Public Procurement 69

Public Procurement Procurement Data Quality 69

The Procurement School

MARCH 27, 2025

If it is material or product, and I only want one evaluation criteria to be used, which is the lowest bidder, I issue a Request for Quote (RFQ) or Request for Tender (RFT). Functional Specs Defines the high-level task, function, system integrations and desired result of the service. Here is how I determine the right one.

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Procurement Contract Public Procurement Supplier 52