Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The government has promoted public participation in procurement monitoring, which is vital to combating corruption and improving efficiency, but few independent civil society organizations and individuals had the information, skills and influence to track contracting effectively. million (~US$24,000) being returned to the budget.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This is particularly problematic for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), which often need more resources to participate in complex, bureaucratic tender processes dominated by a few more prominent competitors. As a result, the UK public sector may be missing out on SMEs’ innovation and flexibility.

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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% Efficiency is key.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It is fueled by feedback from entrepreneurs, helping to mitigate barriers to entry and streamline the purchasing processes. 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.

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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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Bonfire

MARCH 29, 2022

Participants heard from industry experts, shared best practices, and forged new connections with their peers. Crown corporations purchase a variety of goods and services, from professional services to technology to general goods. Most agencies require a purchase order (PO) for almost every purchase in order to issue payment.

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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. Diegues says.

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VWV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Changes to the process for providing feedback on tenders and the standstill period. However, if you are a supplier under an existing framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system, these will continue under the old rules for their remaining term, with a long-stop date of 23 February 2029 for dynamic purchasing systems.

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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 3, 2023

Introductory course The School of Applied Research in Public Procurement sought to develop participants’ skills in monitoring, research, policy analysis, and promoting public procurement reforms and open contracting in Central Asia, with a vision to improve transparency, accountability and efficiency in the use of public funds.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

Yet, many governments have not introduced policies and procedures for buying greener and even where it is possible to use green criteria for purchasing, many procurement officers are unsure of how to include them. Lifecycle stages are in gray, factors are in green, and requirements/certifications are in white.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

New strategies included implementing an electronic bidding platform, piloting approaches to vendor outreach for high-priority purchases, and incorporating bonus point questions for sustainability and equity in all their requests for proposals (RFPs). The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities.

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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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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

– Actions on the products and services purchased. Integrate carbon criteria in calls for tenders. Part 2: Act on the products and services purchased. It is essential to deepen the analysis at the level of the goods purchased. – Actions on the way you buy. Take action with suppliers.

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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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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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ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2018

PKP Energetyka, launched the implementation of Ivalua’s state-of-the-art Procurement and Sourcing solution with the participation of OptiBuy. Up until now, the orders and tenders of the company were frequently handled manually, which was time and labour intensive.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Framework public bodies are requested to advise upon their interest in participating in a User Intelligence Group for this procurement exercise. Framework Public Bodies are requested to advise upon their interest in participating in a User Intelligence Group for this procurement exercise. Work on a re-let is due to commence imminently.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Framework public bodies are requested to advise upon their interest in participating in a User Intelligence Group for this procurement exercise. Framework Public Bodies are requested to advise upon their interest in participating in a User Intelligence Group for this procurement exercise. Work on a re-let is due to commence imminently.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Notably, from FY 2018-2022 GAO found “numerous examples of defense-related M&A that potentially presented risks” to DoD but for which DoD did not participate in antitrust review, in many cases because it appears that the FTC and DOJ may not have reached out to DoD for input and DoD was otherwise unaware of the transaction.

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Civic participation can play an important role in monitoring risks in government procurement projects that may lead to uncompetitive practices, wasteful spending and project delays. In Indonesia, members of the public can file official complaints about suspicious procurement practices.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Background This dispute originated when Albemarle Limitada (“Albemarle”), a Chilean company involved in the production of lithium, called for tenders for the supply of geomembranes and geotextiles. Eventually, the tenders were awarded to Emaresa Ingenieros y Representaciones S.A. 922-2022 , dated 24 June 2022).

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