NASPO

MAY 13, 2021

A reoccurring challenge in public procurement is: How can government keep up with procuring technological innovation? The state of Minnesota Office of State Procurement (OSP) faced this question in 2018 when the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) approached OSP looking for a procurement solution to their predicament.

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Telles.eu

JUNE 23, 2023

This, plus the statements of both the current and previous Minister for transport shows us the likely origin for the criterion. What they want is trains that meet the specifications and for the best price possible. They have no interest in determining where the manufacture occurs.

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Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 6, 2024

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A section of particular interest in the response refers to ‘Ensuring AI best practice in the public sector’ (at 21-22), which makes direct reference to the use of public procurement and the exercise of public sector buying power as a regulatory lever.

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Magnus Legal

DECEMBER 30, 2019

555 between Sotra/Øygarden and Bergen will be built to ensure efficient transport to urban centres and urban districts. The Sotra Connection RV.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 30, 2024

The public sector is a massive consumer of energy, water, and various other consumables, and therefore should be able to make a substantial contribution to reducing carbon emissions. It is the infrastructure piece that I think the public sector’s got a real role to play in determining how and where we live, and that fabric of our life.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 25, 2019

Where price analysis is a mandatory requirement for all procurements, such as in the case of the MCC-PPG, an unreasonable price is a reason for rejecting a bid. The Ministry publishes price ceilings for commodities such as gasoline, diesel fuel, rice, transportation fair for distances across the country, etc.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 27, 2024

Most of the exceptions to the prohibition for public entities to have recourse to arbitration are listed in Article L. 2197-6 of the Public Procurement Code ) and to include arbitration agreements in public-private partnerships so far as French law applies ( Article L.2236-1 21BX00596 ) before reaching the Conseil d’Etat.

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Select GCR

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program, managed by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts office, supports minority-owned businesses in public procurement. Department of Transportation, which is a part of the federal government.

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Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 7, 2023

First, they need to help drive large-scale and unprecedented changes in the energy, construction, industry, transportation, agriculture, and other sectors. Fortunately, progress has been made in the region and countries are in a position to develop diagnoses, tools, and institutional capacities to promote green procurement.

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Procureware

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This list can help you determine which features and capabilities are most important for your procurement process. Supplier registration Public supplier registration is a fundamental component of the public procurement process and sourcing solutions that target government agencies all provide this functionality.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In this connection, it is relevant to mention that the Public Administration in Brazil has been adopting dispute boards in their administrative contracts in several cities, including São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Rio de Janeiro where there are already local regulations authorizing such adoption.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This decision was not surprising, as it is a basic tenet of public procurement law that agencies may only evaluate offerors based on the criteria stated in the solicitation. Thus, the GAO sustained the protest.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Public procurement can be a powerful lever for achieving broader aims like equity and sustainability. The fair allowed businesses to network and develop relationships with local government agencies and other businesses in the government contracting space. Des Moines bought its first electric garbage truck.

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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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University of Bristol

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Photo credit: Flickr While carrying out research on the impact of digital technologies for public procurement governance, I have realised that the deployment of artificial intelligence to promote sustainability through public procurement holds some promise. In my view, it should be a matter of high priority. *

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The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

More complex procurements such as IT software, with technical evaluation criteria will use a Request for Proposal (RFP). Given the time required to submit bids and to evaluate responses, bidders should meet a minimum score to progress to each stage of the procurement so that only the most qualified bids are evaluated.

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The Procurement School

JULY 24, 2023

Effective Management of Contractor Performance in Public Procurement In public procurement, ensuring contractors deliver as promised is a challenge many organizations face. Like many other regions, public sector procurement or government procurement in Canada requires a meticulous approach.

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Telles.eu

JULY 3, 2023

A couple of caveats here though: I'm a lot less comfortable discussing state aid than I am public procurement since my expertise is in the latter. The problem is that as established in the previous post the procedure does not comply with the existing EU procurement rules (ie art 36 of Directive 2014/25/EU) and also art 34 TFEU.

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University of Bristol

APRIL 6, 2020

Public procurement is at the forefront of the response to the challenges of COVID-19. The importance of public procurement and supply chain management has rarely been so prominently in the public eye and political debate—except, perhaps, in the case of notorious procurement scandals, such as the recent Brexit-related #ferrygate.

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Telles.eu

JUNE 14, 2023

Moreover, the CJEU in COS.MET para 58 also concluded that even statement by public officials to the media could consist a measure having an equivalent effect. Art 36(1) of Directive 2014/25/EU Like art 18(1) of Directive 2014/25/EU, art 36(1) of Directive 2014/25/EU establishes the general principles applicable to public procurement.

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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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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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Public Procurement Intl

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Understanding the Kolin Decision Jean Heilman Grier As Jean Heilman Grier pointed out in her thoughtful commentary, the Kolin decision may pose a more serious threat to free markets than the EU’s recent measures to boost EU vendors’ access to foreign procurement markets, the International Procurement Instrument and the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.

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The Procurement School

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Procurement decisions were largely one-dimensional – with economic interests being the first choice. ESG practices are driven in the supply sector by the largest player on the demand side, public procurement. The weighting on environmental and social values continues is tempering pricing.

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