Solving Search
Search is difficult.
By that we mean building a service that delivers the right information to people who are searching for it.
In our world of searching for business opportunities, there’s a range of tools and techniques that can be used to make search more rewarding for users.
Let’s first understand the problems. It is common for users to ...
EU Medical Procurement Recommendations
The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) has released a paper that examines procurement practices across the EU in their delivery of high-quality medicines for patients.
The EFPIS represents the biopharmaceutical industry operating in Europe. Through its membership of 36 national associations, 39 leading pharmaceutical companies, and a growing number of small and medium-sized enterprises, EFPIA’s ...
You Can Shove Our Data……
Right into the heart of your business.
That’s right, we want you to put our data in your own database.
We don’t put our data behind a web page or try to limit who can view it.
We don’t try and tell you what you can do with the data, or whether you can link it to other data.
We ...
Aus. Audit Office Taking Submissions
A few months ago we wrote about the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) investigation into the procurement practices of government-funded infrastructure.
The ANAO has now launched a new inquiry into the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) and their procurement of ICT-related services. The DTA came under fire back in 2020 by the ANAO for the way it established ...
The Key To A $13trn Market Is Just A Login Away
Developers are a precious resource. You want them deployed on the most critical projects and for their time to be best used.
But what if you had the data on a server ready to go? If your only barrier to millions of tenders, contracts and spend records is a login and password ? What if this data ...
Bad Data Is A Choice
You can’t run a good service on bad data.
It doesn’t matter if you’re in government, a hedge fund or running a small charity. Today the information you need to run a service relies on data.
That means running a database. Not just having a database, but maintaining it and managing it so that your organisation can make ...
Sole Beneficiary Of £250 Million contract
Crown Hosting Data Centres (CHDC) is likely to ‘win’ the government hosting framework contract worth up to £250 million.
The UK Government's Cabinet Office will negotiate a new agreement for hosting services for the public sector but will almost certainly award the CHDC, which it partly owns with Ark Data Centres under a public-private joint venture, set ...
We Go The Extra Mile
With national, federal, and regional tender portals, it is easy to get an idea of the public procurement marketplace. But in truth, these are only scratching the surface of a $13 trillion dollar marketplace. There are almost 100k public entities in the US alone. Even a smaller country like the United Kingdom has thousands of entities, ...
When Language Fails You-Translating Global Data.
Our users enjoy access to all the key, live tender opportunities from around the world.
We have hundreds of thousands of global, live contracts and tenders across over 100 languages at any one time.
It comes as little surprise then, that a common discussion we have with our users centres around language and translation.
This conversation typically begins with ...
Create A Bespoke Spend Category In Days.
When opening up most banking apps, it’s amazing how vague the transactional information is.
How can you identify key savings in the broad-reaching ‘entertainment’ or ‘leisure’ bucket? How can you build a green profile of yourself when ‘travel’ is clumped together?
This is a wider problem in business. Have you ever looked at financial reports and wondered, ‘What’s ...
Data As A Procurement Pipeline
There is a lot of procurement data out there, but it doesn’t always have reliable or consistent features. Data that's raw, unreliable, inconsistent, and scattered across different systems is hard to work with and makes it difficult to create a robust business pipeline.
Most procurement teams conduct some level of pipeline analysis in order to plan activity ...
Global Government Procurement Creates 15% Carbon Emissions
A recent report by the global business strategists Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum has found global government procurement is responsible for 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Their study reported that governments spend $11trillion(USD) annually-or 15% of global GDP, on procurement every year. Our own prior study, tracked the value of global procurement at ...
What Biden’s Green Procurement Bill Means.
One of the first things President Biden did when he came into office was launch an executive order on green procurement.
That is, he put requirements in place for all US government procurement around sustainability and the reduction of C02 emissions.
Specifically, agencies are directed to seek carbon-free electricity by 2030, zero-emission vehicle emissions by 2035, net-zero-emission from ...
Government of Victoria’s Procurement Goes Digital
In November 2021, the Australian state Government of Victoria launched a digital strategy, which identified the frailties of the existing process for ICT procurement and offered strategies to simplify the process with the objective of encouraging a broader range of companies to do business with the government.
A key part of the strategy is the creation of ...
UK Government Release Procurement Green Paper Findings
In December 2020, the UK Government Cabinet Office set out proposals for shaping the future of public procurement legislation with the publication of a Green Paper, Transforming Public Procurement.Preview (opens in a new tab)
The overarching goals of these proposals were to speed up and simplify the Government procurement processes, in their words, ‘placing value for money ...