Tendersinfo

MARCH 24, 2021

Ultimate Guide to the Insight of Public Procurement Professionals Public Procurement is a multi-staged activity and requires a thorough understanding of each process to be more successful with the bids. Procurement Professionals evaluate Tenders based on Price v/s Quality.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

More often than not, public procurement of technology is viewed as non-transparent, uncompetitive, poorly planned, inefficient, costly, and having high failure rates. The G-Cloud initiative in the UK provides a framework for public sector organizations to easily and cost-effectively procure cloud computing services.

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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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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. In short, public procurement allows local businesses to serve their communities and taxpayers well.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 7, 2024

The purpose of this updated guidance is to support implementation of FWF, the Scottish Government’s policy for driving high quality fair work and workforce diversity across the labour market in Scotland by providing more detailed practical guidance. This replaces the previous Best Practice Guidance and Toolkit published in 2018.

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How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Public procurement of AI between opportunities and risks Introduction In the past year, the growth in hype around AI and machine learning has been considerable. for law enforcement and essential public services), or not used at all (e.g. transparency for image manipulation), or substantial requirements (e.g.

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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

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

MAY 23, 2024

The app’s comprehensive database of procurement appeals sources data from the Prozorro public procurement system, as well as decisions on complaints made to the Antimonopoly Committee, and investigations by the State Audit Service. They also help maintain the private sector’s trust in public procurement.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Challenge: In 2020, public procurement in the Dominican Republic lacked public trust and credibility due to several high-level corruption scandals. The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. 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. When given opportunities, these businesses excel in delivering quality and innovation. Happy International Women’s Day!

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European Law: Public Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In its Judgment of 4 October 2012 in case C‑629/11 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission (ESP-ISEP) , the Court of Justice has issued another interesting decision on what should be considered sufficient debriefing of disappointed bidders in public procurement procedures. 1) (‘the Financial Regulation’).

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

But these businesses rarely take part in public procurement due to long-standing cultural barriers, overly bureaucratic processes and the sense that to win public contracts, they must have the right connections. The bidding process was also restructured to lower the barriers for such businesses to register and submit bids.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

A weightage-based criterion helps the procurement team to select the best out of the lot that gives the best value in terms of Cost, Quality, and experience. It takes into account components like Cost, Quality, and Technicality of various bid proposals while deciding a contract award.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Paola Diegues is a self-proclaimed public procurement enthusiast. 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. They currently service 30 clients in Latin America.

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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. Firstly, they gathered the three key public procurement actors in the same team and aligned on the same vision.

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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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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

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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Naomi Clews Consultancy

JULY 20, 2023

Public Procurement Report The latest National Audit Office (NAO) report provides detailed recommendations for UK Government departments’ to maximise the benefits of effective competition when they run public procurement processes.

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Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Were pleased to announce the launch of the Fair Work First in Procurement eLearning , designed to help organisations across Scotland embrace Fair Work First a Scottish Government policy aimed at promoting high-quality, fair work and workforce diversity. Email us at scottishprocurement@gov.scot.

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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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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Steps To Identify The Right Public Sector Frameworks Identifying the right public sector frameworks can be a game-changer for suppliers securing contracts. These critical steps can streamline the tender process, and position your business for success in the public sector market.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

We also use the Public Contract Scotland (PCS) portal to promote available contracts with previous example contracts covering feasibility studies, hydrology work and our restoration groundworks covering ditch blocking, slope reprofiling or scrub clearance to name a few.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this post as part of our series exploring the impact of AI on public procurement , we’ll outline our approach and lessons learned. But the EU’s procurement notices use the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV), not these product groups, so we had to match the product groups to CPV codes (see our spreadsheet ).

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Mercell

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Press release Utrecht & Sofia December 15, 2017 Dutch software company Negometrix to develop the national procurement system for all Bulgarian Public Entities On December 15, 2017 Negometrix as part of a consortium, signed a contract with the Public Procurement Agency of the Republic of Bulgaria.

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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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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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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

Enhancing the transparency of government in general and of public procurement processes in particular has been increasingly on the agenda of governments, civil societies and businesses as evidenced by initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership which has seen 70 OGP members making 189 open contracting commitments by March 2019 [1].

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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. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

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European Law: Public Procurement

MAY 11, 2012

Can public authorities procure fair trade products, or are they debarred from specifically referring to the fair trade qualities of those products under the public procurement directive (directive 2004/18/EC)? Qualities relating to the production stage of products (including fair trade conditions!)

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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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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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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 26, 2019

It may also be called the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT). Synonymous terms are quotation review panel, bid review board or tender review committee, to name a few. Evaluation for Compliance with Technical Requirements: At this stage, the panel evaluates for compliance with specified quality (specifications).

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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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