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

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In large public projects, like infrastructure, transport, and delivering public services like water and social programs, the difference between success and failure often comes down to how well you plan and who you involve early on. It all starts with procurement. It all starts with procurement.

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3 months to go until Meet the Buyer National 2025!

Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 4, 2025

Meet the Buyer National is hosted by the Supplier Development Programme and partnered by Scottish Government and Scotland Excel. Meet the Buyer National is the perfect place for suppliers to discover how they can win their share of Scotlands 16bn annual public sector procurement spend. Why should you attend? Whos exhibiting?

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Digging out data to shine a light on public buying in Mongolia

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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Meet The Buyer 2024 brings businesses together for Scotland’s largest free procurement event

Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 6, 2024

Meet the Buyer 2024 Alongside headline partners, Scottish Government and Scotland Excel, over 55 exhibitors have already signed up to engage with suppliers on the day. Come along to meet with procurement teams, buyers and supply chains to learn about upcoming projects and tender opportunities across Scotland and the UK.

Buyers

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Global Sourcing – Is It Suitable For Your Business?

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JANUARY 29, 2024

Having sent out your RFQs (requests for quotations) or ITT (invitations to tender) you have received quotations and bids back. The quote that stands out is from an overseas supplier offering a price that is 20% lower than all the home country quotes. What effect will this have on the company’s carbon footprint?

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Public Procurement: Delivering Value to a Community While Making Profit

Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Oftentimes, public authorities buy services such as energy, transport, social protection, waste management, and health or educational services from private entities. These details should help contractors, service providers, and suppliers determine if they have the qualifications to compete for the contract.

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The Role Of Social Value In Public Procurement: Driving Community Impact

Tracker Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Inclusive Opportunities: Public procurement can be a tool to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion by prioritising contracts with suppliers committed to these ideals. Suppliers in the economy are expected to reduce their carbon footprints and demonstrate effective means of maintaining green approaches.

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It is currently developing a methodology to calculate the impact of green public procurement on CO2 emissions in high-carbon sectors such as energy and transport and specific products such as paper. The way we think about technology is that it has to help public buyers and suppliers conduct business easier.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate. Lifecycle stages are in gray, factors are in green, and requirements/certifications are in white.

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Will Introducing a Shorter Working Week Have a Negative Impact on Business?

Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

CEO of American transport business, Diamondback, Ben Eltz, noted: “Very rarely does a person say, ‘I got my work done—now I’m going to go see how else I can help.’” We help businesses like yours on their way to becoming the next public sector supplier, assisting with early engagement, expert advice , tender alerts , and support along the way.

Buyers

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Buying local, inclusive and green: How Iowa’s capital, Des Moines, is living its values through better procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 31, 2023

Results : About a year after the launch of the new strategies, vendor registration has tripled, with local businesses representing 21% of their suppliers, with 9% women-owned, and 6% minority-owned businesses (from 373 to 1113 registered vendors, as of 20 June). The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities.

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The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions Government Contractors Should Know

Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Instead, the Industrial Base Policy M&A office merely has broad discretion to assess “covered transactions” involving “major defense suppliers” as defined in DoD’s M&A policy under Directive 5000.62. The pilot program must be established within 90 days of enactment.

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Four essential tips to help contractors get in on the $1.2 Trillion U.S. Infrastructure Bill

Bonfire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Today’s your lucky day because the team at Bonfire has pulled together four tips to help suppliers in the construction space win big when it comes to government contracts (and save costs while doing it!). This is also known as making a request for proposal (RFP) or a request to tender (RTT). to rebuild core infrastructure.

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

3 months to go until Meet the Buyer National 2025!

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Digging out data to shine a light on public buying in Mongolia

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Public Procurement: Delivering Value to a Community While Making Profit

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

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Will Introducing a Shorter Working Week Have a Negative Impact on Business?

Buying local, inclusive and green: How Iowa’s capital, Des Moines, is living its values through better procurement

The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions Government Contractors Should Know

Four essential tips to help contractors get in on the $1.2 Trillion U.S. Infrastructure Bill

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