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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

Failed competitive tenderswhich previously offered a loophole for buyers to resort to direct awardshave dropped from 52% of the value of public tenders in 2018 to around 3% in 2022 to 2024. The total value of purchases during this period increased by 160%, reaching 12.37 The average number of bidders per lot rose from 3.16

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Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Open Contracting Partnership

Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. What’s next? In October 2024, use of the pre-bidding module became mandatory for Mexico City’s buyers.

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CKS Benelux and Ivalua partner with Punch Powertrain to digitalise strategic sourcing

ivalua

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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Empowering auditors: Indonesia uses data-driven oversight to clean up its corruption-prone procurement sector

Open Contracting Partnership

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. In the third, poor quality materials had been used. I’m proud of the quality of reports done by civil society last year because they were escalated by the procurement agency to the auditing authorities.

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The UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan -- a procurement view

How to Crack a Nut

The plan also formulates a series of core principles underpinning those goals, which include the need to Invest in becoming a great customer: government purchasing power can be a huge lever for improving public services, shaping new markets in AI, and boosting the domestic ecosystem. quality), requirements, and best practice (e.g.

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Who Are the Key Players in Public Procurement?

Tracker Intelligence

In the UK, public procurement is essential to providing high-quality public services. 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.

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The Public Procurement Glossary

Tracker Intelligence

Value: Smart Spending, Not Just Cheap Deals It’s not just about the lowest priceit’s about quality, long-term savings, and corporate social responsibility. Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. It outlines pricing, service quality and other key details.