Using Data To Build A Supply Chain
All data has a provenance.
It comes from somewhere. Someone created it.
Maybe it came from a sensor, or it was created by a person using Excel.
At some point it was entered into a database and then it was saved and distributed.
In a lot of cases you won’t really know where your data came from.
Your publisher is probably ...
Get Your Data Sorted.
We collect tens of thousands of documents every day.
We visit more than 700 sources to collect this data.
That's what our customers pay us for: the right data, in the right place at the right time, which means their customers can navigate the complex world of public procurement.
Getting the right data in the right place takes more ...
The Importance of Government Procurement Data for Export Agencies
There are a number of ways that government procurement data can help export agencies, including:
Identifying New Markets - By understanding what goods and services are being procured by government entities, export agencies can identify new markets that may be open to their products or services. This data can also be helpful in terms of understanding ...
Lord’s Have Their Say On Procurement Bill
The proposed changes to the Procurement Bill are on their third reading in the House of Lords.
Last week the House of Lords defied ministers to back a series of changes to the Procurement Bill, which covers a range of proposals.
Part one of the Bill sets out which authorities and contracts the Bill applies to. It covers ...
How Government Procurement Data Can Help Export Agencies.
If you’re in the business of exporting, you know that the global market can be a tough one to crack. In order to be successful, you need to be strategic about where you allocate your resources. Fortunately, there is a way to get insights into where governments are spending their money so you can make informed ...
EU’s Ruling On Beneficial Ownership
Last week, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that public access to registries showing personal details about companies' beneficial owners infringes fundamental individual rights otherwise protected by the EU. The Court said the EU's 2018 requirement for Member States to grant public access to information on beneficial ownership caused "serious interference with ...
Hungary’s Procurement Milestones Not Met
The European Commission has recently presented an assessment under the procedure to Hungary that we covered recently here. The Commission found that, notwithstanding steps taken, there is still a continued risk to the EU budget given, that remedial measures still need to be fulfilled.
While reforms were supposedly underway, the Commission has advised that Hungary has still ...
Would You Risk Bad Data?
If you're lucky, poor data will only make you look inefficient, but if you're unlucky, it will make a real mess of your business.
Building services on data means that you need to trust and understand the data you receive. To be sure that it is the best it can be, to know the weak points, and ...
Data and Public Procurement.
There are some good reasons for including procurement data in your alternative data strategy.
Governments are big and getting bigger. Before the pandemic, they spent $13 Trillion per annum with their suppliers.
They spend money on everything from aerospace to zoology.
Most importantly, governments pump out millions of rows of data on what they want to purchase, what they ...
Ensuring Data Integrity.
Not all data is the same. It might have come from the same source, but how it gets treated is vital. If a data company doesn't have good data hygiene practices things can get messy very quickly, making it hard to understand the data or undermining your valuable analysis.
Always know where the data came from ...
Govt Issues £4.2bn Tender To Update Legacy Services
Crown Commercial Services together with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), have released a contract notice for the Digital and Legacy Application Services (DALAS) framework, with a purported value of up to £4.2 billion over four years.
The DALAS framework intends to provide a strategic gateway to support the delivery of future application services and move HMRC toward ...
‘Unboxing’ £120 Million Of Public Spend
It may have been branded twice, but it seems nothing could save The Festival of Brexit, AKA Unboxed, from tanking in the public engagement stakes. With a target of 66 million punters, the series of events across 107 locations purportedly attracted a mere 240k attendees, although these figures were refuted by the festivals executive director today, ...
Saab Voices Opposition To Canadian Gov Procurement
The Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) agency has begun negotiating the final terms of delivery with Lockheed on an order from the The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) for 88 new fighters, as part of a phase out its current fleet under its Future Fighter Capability Project.
However, Swedish jet maker Saab, who have also bid ...
Your Data, Your Rules
If your company is hiring data analysts, you need data.
You don’t need a login to a website which restricts the queries that your analysts can run.
That’s why we offer raw data, through an API or a via CSVs. We give you data for your database, so that your analysts can conduct the research they need, how ...
Life Moves Pretty Fast
We've been talking for a while about AI and possible impacts on procurement. We use AI in our own service to almost effortlessly categorise hundreds of millions of documents in dozens of languages. We can complete a task in around 6 hours that would take a team of six humans more than four years to complete. ...