Mixing Politics & Procurement.
The need for administrations to act at pace is often at odds with the processes and procedures needed for good procurement.
If an administration wants to send a man to the moon, vaccinate a population or just build a bridge across a river, they don't want to have to draft a specification, engage the market, redraft the ...
Improve Your Exporting With Government Data
Government procurement data can be a valuable resource for export agencies looking to expand their business and identify new opportunities in foreign markets. By understanding the types of goods and services that various government agencies are purchasing, export agencies can gain insight into the needs and preferences of different countries and tailor their offerings accordingly.
One way ...
Waiting For A Tsunami Of Text
In a world where text can be generated by an algorithm for negligible costs, we have to rethink how we value the written word. In procurement, the effort required to create written texts has become a proxy for validity. That is changing, in a world where Chat-GTP is the dunce in the room, ie. 2025, there ...
Cleaning Up On Cleaning Contracts
Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, is home to the nations houses of parliament and a large swathe of public sector. Transparency of public procurement has become an issue in the state in recent years. In fact, last March the ACT public sector Integrity Commissioner Michael Adams, told a Legislative Assembly committee that procurement issues are ...
New Procurement Bill Progresses Through Parliament
The proposed new Procurement Bill passed its second reading without division in the House of Commons yesterday, with the Government proposing the new bill will make it easier for small businesses to win more of the £300billion of goods, services and works that the government buys each year.
The Government first laid out its reform proposals in ...
How Government Procurement Data Can Help Export Agencies
Government procurement data, the information on what goods and services government entities purchase in different markets, is an extremely valuable, and often underused tool for the export industry. Government data can help identify and open new markets, and help businesses compete more effectively, in international government procurement markets.
Identifying New Markets
By understanding what goods and services are ...
Government On Covid 19 Contracts
The government has published a document, providing further information about the procurement of critical testing equipment and services during the early months of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020.The document outlines the challenges of the situation for procurement:
"The exceptional circumstances in the early months of the pandemic meant there was significant global demand for testing goods ...
Global Analysis: Less Is Less
Analysing 7.5 million tender documents published by governments around the world has revealed a worrying trend of publishers providing less data for potential bidders. On average, the number of tender notices that have descriptions with fewer than 250 characters has increased from 31% in 2019 to 45% in 2022.
This trend of using shorter descriptions in tender ...
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 ...
Buyers who stole Christmas (again)
It’s time to shed a festive tear and feel some sympathy for all the bidding teams who’ve got bids to respond to during the Christmas break. So put on a Christmas jumper and let’s have a run down of the buyers who insist on setting tender deadlines during the Christmas break.
The list below includes buyers that ...
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 ...