VWV

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Changes to the process for providing feedback on tenders and the standstill period. As part of the reforms, the current Find a Tender system will be improved to create a Central Digital Platform. For below threshold contracts , Contracts Finder will still be active. Introduction of open frameworks.

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Supplier Procurement Tender Transparency 52

VWV

APRIL 23, 2024

This applies to all above-threshold procurements. You are able to use the new Selection Questionnaire (SQ) straight away but the deadline to implement it into tenders is 27 June 2024. A new Procurement Policy Note has been published which provides an updated Standard Selection Questionnaire.

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Procurement Supply Chain Bidder Tender 52

Nitrous: Public Procurement

AUGUST 12, 2020

These figures aren’t helped by the fact that the proportion of public sector contracts awarded without a competitive tender is rising ( 15 per cent in 2016 to 22 per cent in 2017 and then 23 per cent in 2018 ). With many eSourcing solutions being used across the country, many tenders require separate application processes just to apply.

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Procurement Tender Supplier Bidding 52

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. Single-bid tenders decreased from 62.5%

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Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 78

VWV

MARCH 1, 2024

This applies to all above-threshold procurements. You are able to use the new Selection Questionnaire (SQ) straight away but the deadline to implement it into tenders is 27 June 2024. A new Procurement Policy Note has been published which provides an updated Standard Selection Questionnaire.

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Procurement Supply Chain Bidder Tender 52

VWV

MAY 19, 2021

The public procurement rules recognise there are certain circumstances when public bodies, including universities, can derogate from the general principle of advertising and tendering contract opportunities and directly award a contract. The two key derogations relate to the direct award of new contracts and modifying existing contracts.

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Tender Contract Supplier Procurement 40

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

APRIL 15, 2020

The Public Procurement Commission, which is responsible for checking the credentials of companies that wish to register to participate in public tenders, is keen to develop a mechanism for evaluating contract performance. Yet another wants to improve project implementation throughout the public procurement process.

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Public Procurement Integrity Integration Procurement 52

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

For example, when we take a whole year of contracts after a transparency reform taking place in May, our estimation may be biased if a procurement regulatory reform happened 5 months later, such as a new reporting threshold introduced. the same information is reported in very many different and changing formats).

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Bidder Transparency Contract Public Procurement 40

Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Tendering and Bidding A contract notice is published, inviting suppliers to submit bids. It covers everything from tendering and bidding to contract management. Invitation To Tender What does ITT mean in procurement? Unlike an Invitation to Tender (ITT), RFPs allow for more flexibility in responses.

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Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Tender 52

Telles.eu

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Furthermore, it seems this check is to be done by each contracting authority on a tender by tender basis, further increasing their compliance work or at the very least their compliance risk. Where such threshold lies in practice I do not know but this is the kind of legal uncertainty that will create havoc in practice.

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Green Public Procurement Public Procurement Procurement Award Criteria 113

Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These critical steps can streamline the tender process, and position your business for success in the public sector market. The platform is free to use and offers a clear view of available tenders across various sectors, making it an essential and accessible tool for suppliers seeking public sector opportunities.

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Procurement Framework Agreement Tender Supplier 52

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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Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52

Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The threshold challenge here is to ensure that there is sufficient information in the marketplace to make this kind of requirement workable. This is why, for example, governments sometimes require vendors to compile information on there greenhouse gas emissions as a condition of qualification – see above.)

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Procurement Procurement Strategies E-procurement Bidder 147

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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Data Tender Procurement E-procurement 52

The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Construction tenders may include a mandatory site visit where attendance is required in order to bid. The evaluation can be simple, such as tenders which are price only, or complex which includes technical criteria, pricing and sometimes an interview or demonstration. Step 4 Evaluation Once the procurement closes bids are evaluated.

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Bidder Procurement Evaluation Bidding 52

Magnus Legal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How do you as an international supplier, access the competitions governed by the strict national rules in Norway?

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Bonfire

MARCH 29, 2022

Roundtable participants said under a certain threshold (around $100K for services and $25K for goods) their client departments have full discretion on how to source. If the amount is over the threshold, sourcing is led by the procurement team, whether through a public bid, NOI, or limited tendering option.

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Procurement Eprocurement Purchasing Participation 52

VWV

JANUARY 4, 2021

For example, procurement notices will be published on the Find a Tender service , rather than the Official Journal of the European Union. The current procurement thresholds will remain in force.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

This provision of the NDAA seems targeted at bridging the communication gap between the agencies by requiring that the parties to a proposed transaction over the HSR threshold provide a copy of their HSR filing directly to DoD.

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Government Government Export Data 40

How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

Given that above threshold procurement data is already (in the process of being) captured at EU level, the PPDS is very much about data on procurement not covered by the EU rules—which represents 80% of all public procurement contracts.

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Procurement Public Procurement Buyers Thresholds 52

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Relatedly, the Slovak Government stated that despite containing explicit references to the tendering of the construction of the stadium, the State aid Decision cannot preempt a fresh assessment of the compliance of this legal structure with EU procurement rules. To my mind, it did so implicitly, which explains paragraph 8 of its Decision SA.46530.

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Procurement Finance Purchasing Public Procurement 52

Procurement Notes

JUNE 15, 2021

For example, FAR 16.505(b)(1)(iii)(B)( 2 ) states, regarding an order that exceeds the simplified acquisition threshold, that a Contracting Officer shall “[a]fford all contractors responding to the notice a fair opportunity to submit an offer and have that offer fairly considered.” . § 4106(d)(5); FAR 16.505(b)(1)(iv)(E) and (b)(6). [25]

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Bidding E-procurement Procurement Negotiation 40

VWV

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Cabinet Office has prepared guidance on a range of subjects including competitive tendering procedures, exclusions and debarment and remedies Keep up to date with VWV's short and expert blogs There are no changes to the current procurement thresholds which will remain in force until 31 December 2025.

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Supplier Procurement Tender Supply Chain 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Both modules allow for comprehensive, in-depth analysis of public procurement using an exhaustive range of parameters (such as goods and their classifications, tenders, lots, and complaints; for any selected period; and any combination of selection criteria).

Public Procurement 67

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Buyers 67

Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Court noted that the dispute following the Bojar Letter was not a continuation of a prior tender-related dispute commenced before the entry into force of the Treaty. Ratione Temporis The Czech Republic contended that the Tribunal lacked jurisdiction to adjudicate a dispute that had arisen before the BIT came into effect on 7 August 1991.

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Export Tender Thresholds Corruption 59

Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 5, 2024

DJP, DJQ, and DJR, who were the respondents in the setting-aside application (the Respondents), tendered for one of the contracts. To be clear, the authors take no firm view on whether the arbitrators conduct in DJO reaches this threshold of severe conduct warranting the disclosure of his name.

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Accountability Balance Import Tender 52

Telles.eu

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As for the 2017 transposition I do not have much to say, but I did say a lot about what was happening below-thresholds. Predictably, the rules were 'simplified' further particularly for below threshold contracts with compliance requirements, timescales and the rights associated to them slashed. But fashionably late it was nonetheless.

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Procurement Thresholds Tender Transparency 100

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It is true that in many Member States somewhat different purely domestic provisions apply to contracts below the threshold and not having a cross-border interest as well as to other excluded contracts. It is mostly impossible to manage an award procedure following two discrete sets of rules depending on who is the tenderer. 46 and 47).

Public Procurement 64

Public Procurement Tender Participation E-procurement 64

Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 12, 2025

The government opened a public tender process. Shortly after the public tender was opened, the Council of Ministers decided to invite PEL to start the process of carrying out the project (Award, para 202); the offer was rescinded less than a month later (Award, para 205). CFM was not able to contribute the 20% needed for the project.

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Engineering Tender Public Private Partnership Transportation 52